Effectiveness of measures of pronatalist policy, in particular, maternity capital, in Russia and its regions depends on the estimators of their recent impact. The article considers approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of the most significant measure of stimulating fertility in Russia and its regions – the maternal capital program, based on methods of comparative analysis and modelling of patterns of fertility rates by birth order from 1999 to 2006 – before the introduction of the maternal capital program, and during the periods of its state and regional versions – after 2007 and 2012, respectively. During the study the set of factors, that characterize the conditions of life in the country during these periods, were taken into account, which have an impact on the fertility rate, such as: the standard of living, social tension, etc. An initial data on the levels of age-related fertility rates of all, first, second, third and subsequent children in 39 regions of Russia was gathered from the Russian School of Economics. Data, reflecting the costs of maternal capital programs, living conditions in the country and its regions, was gathered from Rosstat, as well as the results of population surveys on the reasons for making decisions about the birth of a child, and other resources were used. The results, presented in the article, indicate, that the state program of maternal capital has more influence on the increase in the fertility rate of second children, while regional programs – affected on the fertility rate of third and subsequent children. There were two groups of regions determined, that differ in the response of their population’s demographic behavior to state and regional maternal capital programs in the current conditions of life. The obtained set of time series models with a variable structure, describing patterns in the order-related fertility rates in the regions of these groups in the considered time periods, indicate an increase in regional differentiation in terms of fertility.

There is a gradual formation of a system of zones with special economic regimes in Russia. The beginning of the rational streamlining of the activity of such zones was laid by the “Federal law on special economic zones of 2005”. Actual practice of working of special economic zones revealed positive and negative aspects in their activity. It allowed to pass to normative-legal preparation of territories of advanced social and economic development as type of the zones more adequate to a present state of economies of the Russian regions.The adoption of a federal law on such territories in 2014, their testing in the Far East allowed us to proceed to their creation, distribution throughout the country. They have not and cannot become regional locomotives of social and economic development of the country. They still perform secondary functions in this process. But the functions are important and have a positive impact on the regional development. Serious work needs to be done to monitor their effectiveness, to improve the regulatory framework of Russian zones with special economic regimes and to link their priorities with the priorities of social and economic development of the regions.

Different countries show differing patterns of economic growth and innovation dynamics. For a long time in Russia, it has not been possible to formulate an innovative model of economic growth, a debate about which lasts for more than a decade and government measures are being taken to stimulate innovation and stimulate growth, which do not yet allow us to move on to such the development model. However, this usually happens without taking into account the mode of innovative dynamics that has already taken shape at the current moment, both at the micro level (the effectiveness of science-intensive firms) and at the macro level – according to the dynamics of innovative development parameters, in particular, the growth rate of innovative agents, changes in the share of firms innovators. The current effectiveness of the functioning of science-intensive (innovative) firms undoubtedly affects the emergence of innovative firms and the number of agents in the economy. The clarification of such a relationship is important, which will allow us to better outline the outline of the model of the innovative type of economic growth. Thus, it was found that in Russia from the analyzed countries (USA, China, EU), the increase in GDP occurred simultaneously with a decrease in the number of innovative agents and the share of innovative companies, and the growth rate decreased with an increase in the growth rate of the number of innovative agents in the studied time interval. This is a conservative model of economic dynamics. The innovative development model assumes a situation where GDP increases with the growth in the number of innovative agents, the growth rate slows down with an increase in the growth rate of the number of innovative agents due to the relatively high share of these agents in the total, which is typical for China. Thus, the formation of an innovative Russian growth model will require changes in the government system of economic policy measures. In particular, it will be necessary to test the impact of changing the law of the relationship between GDP dynamics and the number of firms and innovative agents, as well as the conditions for moving labor resources from old to new industries and training personnel for new industries, take into account restrictions on the effectiveness of science-intensive firms, and introduce a stimulating tax mechanism innovation, and reduce the risks of introducing innovation.

In our opinion, not enough attention is paid to the finances of the population in economic research and educational literature, and when considering financial relations, a local approach prevails (inflation, budget relations, lending, banking, etc.) and often in isolation from the real sector of the economy. The article considers population Finance from the position of macro-meso-level approach as an important area of the financial system associated with the reproduction and satisfaction of material and socio-cultural needs of members of society. It justifies the place of the population’s finances in the financial system of Russia, analyzes the formation of monetary income and its use at the macro-meso level, reveals the dependence of the structure of consumption and savings of the population on the level of its income, differentiatedbysocialgroups.

Priority national projects, being a fundamentally new institution of the country’s economic and social development, could not fully comply with the existing legal forms of financial planning and the budget process that have developed over the long previous periods. The implementation of priority national projects, especially in the regions and municipalities, causes frequent conflicts in the preparation and execution of budgets and government spending. We are dealing with a two-channel budgeting mechanism with insufficient linking of these channels to each other.

The essence of the problems considered by the authors consists in ways of adapting new, modern forms of financial planning for socio-economic development, covered by priority national projects to the legal regime for drawing up, approving the federal and regional budgets provided for by the Budget Code of the Russian Federation and a number of other legislative acts and decisions of the Government of the Russian Federation. The authors of this publication set themselves several tasks. First task is to trace the origin of the idea of changes the economy and social sphere of Russia on the ground of the realization of national projects. Second task is to determine how the concept of national projects are reflected in modern Russian legislation. Thirdly is to answer the question what additional steps need to be taken in order to ensure decent legal support the implementation the national projects ideas. The authors studied a huge array of law documents, publications about national projects, used theoretical research of constitutional, administrative and financial law in order to solve the tasks posed above and get a valid result on the base of this paper.

In the near future, there will be a task to update such an important strategic planning document as the Strategy of national security of the Russian Federation. This task is due to the fact that the acting current Strategy of national was adopted in 2015, and in accordance with the Federal law “On Strategic planning in the Russian Federation”, this Strategy must be updated at least once every 6 years. However, in the current situation, the elaboration of a new Strategy of national security is not just a renovation of an existing document. In essence, this is a systemic task, in which it is necessary to achieve the organic inclusion of this Strategy into a unified “vertical” of strategic planning documents. It is also necessary to strengthen the role of the Strategy as one of the key sources of goal-setting in the strategic planning practice and, of course, to fix in it the risks and threats to national security, including economic ones, which have developed during recent period. As a part of this work is expected significant updating the Federal law “On security”, which is intended to fix the modern system of security strategies, their role in shaping strategic planning priorities, as well as in fixing the economic and legal foundations of federal relations in the country.

The strategy of digitalization of the Russian economy leads to a close attention to innovative lending instruments: their adaptation and use in industry context. In particular, in the article the necessity of finding new ways of lending in the agricultural production. The structural dynamic analysis allowed us to identify common features and trends of development of agricultural consumer credit as the main alternative forms of Bank lending to farmers. The development of digital technologies determines the attention to research of innovative forms of lending with a view to their integration into the architecture of the system of financing in the field of agricultural production. For small farms, according to the authors, the largest capacity in the peer-to-peer lending, which with proper use of technological tools can solve those problems that are not solved agricultural credit consumer cooperatives with regard lending to businesses. The introduction of peer-to-peer lending in the area of financing of small business entities of the Russian agro-industrial complex faced by a number of factors, both positive and deterrent orientation. However, analysis of these factors suggests that this form of lending has a reasonable chance of the introduction of a system of agricultural credit, as it reflects the economic interests of both parties of credit relations.

Siberia in the 20s. The 20th century was an economically underdeveloped region with the overwhelming dominance of small-scale semi-artisan industry and an extremely low population density. The working class was heterogeneous and scattered over a vast territory. In total, he totaled about 325 thousand workers, including 100 thousand people worked in the mining industry, and up to 85 thousand people worked on the railway. The majority of the population (over 9 million people) were peasants. There were few cities and they rather performed administrative functions than were industrial centers. In this regard, the problem of analyzing the state regulation of the Siberian industry in the first years of the NEP has its own peculiarities, including those related to the cultural and historical past of peoples, traditions, ethnic composition of the population, the level of economic development of the Soviet state, etc. It seems that the characterization of the processes of denationalization, rental of enterprises, organization of trusts and syndicates, the search for new forms of organization and management of industrial production can be used in studying the further development of the state, its structures, including in today’s Russia. Important, in our opinion, is the consideration of legislative acts of the NEP period, which were aimed at regulatory regulation of relations in the industry. Thus, the historical experience of Siberia showed that the existence of various forms of ownership and rental relations during the NEP could not lead to the full functioning of industrial enterprises, including large ones, since the successful functioning of market relations requires the creation of a full-fledged market environment.

While the European Union is undergoing processes of disintegration like the UK’s withdrawal from its membership, the possible collapse of the UK, budget problems, subsidies decrease, territorial and financial disputes and claims – Eurasian integration is slowly and steadily raising. The principle of “communicating vessels” in the course of integration on the continent works largely due to the fact that the European Union and the Eurasian economic Union are single-order system entities with a similar history. Currently, due to the lack of integration in Europe, the EEU has begun to develop intensively. A Large Eurasian partnership is being formed. It is a network of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements with different depth, speed and level of interaction, with market openness depending on the readiness of a particular national economy to work together. Among the BEP’s principles are voluntary, mutually beneficial, equal rights, transparency, and strict compliance with international law and obligations. Despite of a number of issues, such as strengthening of the opposing Eurasian integration trends, the institutional weakness of supranational bodies, lack of development of a regional segment of the Eurasian integration, the Eurasian Union is the path which allow its members to take a worthy place in the complex world of the XXI century.

In domestic studies on foreign experience of regional policy, the American system is often referred to, since the us experience in the sphere of socio-economic relations of the center (Federal government) and regions (districts, States, municipalities) includes measures to support the economic development of backward and depressed territories, and agricultural issues, and even actually economic zoning. In this paper, the authors tried to identify and characterize the interested participation of the us Federal government in the economic and social life of the country’s regions during the 50s–60s of the twentieth century. Despite the temporal and spatial features of the territorial and economic organization of American society, characterized by the model of decentralized (competitive) federalism, regional policy in the United States is no less interesting both in theoretical study and in practical terms.

Banks, which are the most important component of the country’s financial and credit system, are called upon to provide the prerequisites for the sustainable development of the economy and the social sphere. To solve this problem, they must be stable and competitive, promptly and adequately respond to the challenges and threats of the external environment, and also successfully use the opportunities that open in the face of growing uncertainty. Among the factors ensuring sustainable development of a commercial bank, an important role is played by trustful, reliable relationships with partners and counterparties. In this regard, the article discusses the processes of organizing interaction and building partnerships between a commercial bank and its business partners, as well as resolving contradictions and conflicts between them. The regional banks of the Republic of Mordovia were taken as an object of study.

In the era of globalization, economically prosperous democracies are increasingly confronted with the problem of maintaining territorial integrity. The desire to gain independence, isolation, self-identification is a defensive reaction to the rapid integration processes that lead to increased migration flows, erosion of national identity. One of the effective ways to counter such destructive processes in multi-ethnic and multi-religious states is the formation of a federal form of government. However, the very nature of federalism often contains a number of threats that lead to the destruction of territorial integrity. This article analyzes the formation and development of the federalization process on the example of Belgium in order to identify threats and risks of the development of federalism. The main centrifugal and centripetal forces stimulating the development of contradictions in Belgian society are given. The author concludes that at present, the key factor in the emergence of the crisis of federalism is the presence of significant economic imbalances between the regions. The author proposes to introduce special economic zones to attract investment flows to the regions taking into account their characteristics, as well as to reform the existing model of federalism based on regional competition into federalism aimed at encouraging cooperation between regions, linguistic communities and institutions of federal and local authorities.