The transition to a market economy in the 1990s led to a significant reduction in the number of R&D organizations, especially R&D departments and survey organizations, as well as in the number of R&D personnel and especially researchers. This was largely due to the outflow of competitive personnel, technology and capital from the country. These changes, which led to a decrease in the level of scientific potential of the country, the effectiveness of innovation, the aggravation of the problem of continuity in science have become a factor limiting the transition to innovative development of the Russian economy. An additional factor complicating the transition to a knowledge-based economy today is the low demand of domestic industry for innovations developed in Russia, an unsatisfactory investment climate for attracting private business to R&D. The article on the basis of the analysis of the relevant indicators identified the main problems that reduce the innovative activity of the regions of Russia, and proposed measures to overcome them.

Sustainable and balanced socio-economic development of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation cannot be carried out without planned management. However, the introduction of strategic planning systems faces a number of problems, the most important of which can be considered the shortcomings of goal-setting and forecasting of the socio-economic situation at the regional level, which has so far received insufficient attention. Orientation in the subjects of the Federation only on national goals without the possibility of using Federal management tools reduces the effectiveness of public authorities, does not allow to sufficiently take into account the specifics of regional development and social needs of the population. The analysis shows the possibility of applying the sustainable development Goals up to 2030, developed and recommended by the United Nations in 2015, which correlate with the indicators of assessing the effectiveness of senior officials of the subjects of the Federation established by the decree of the President of Russia. No less important is the problem of ensuring the implementation of strategic plans. The choice of approaches, tools and mechanisms for the implementation of strategies, programs and projects of regional development should be carried out in the context of the development of strategic planning practices, to improve the efficiency of public administration on the basis of the project approach, the expansion of the use of public-private partnership, the promotion of small and medium-sized businesses.

The Arkhangelsk region is one of 11 regions of the Russian Federation within the North-West Federal District (NWFD), which unites two economic regions — the North and North-West. Today it represents the largest region of the whole European part of Russia. The article discusses the changing role of the Archangelsk lands in the historical context and their ability to develop in the modern, sometimes not always simple conditions of globalization of the world economy, where international cooperation comes to the fore, based mainly in this particular case on the export of natural resources, which are rich territory. At this time, the economic activity of the Arkhangelsk region is characterized by the predominant raw material component. Based on this, the most important strategic goal is the reorientation of the regional economy to the production of products of deeper processing and to a certain extent with high added value. This refers to the processing industry. The author pays great attention to the problems of small business in local conditions and focuses on such leading segments of the entire industrial complex as the forest industry and shipbuilding. Due to its geographical position, which is favorable from many points of view, the port city of Arkhangelsk itself is considered as a base for the development of the Arctic territories of the Russian Federation and the further effective use of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). Sincere concern to the creator of the article is caused by the environmental problems of the Arkhangelsk region and measures taken to protect the environment.

The system of state strategic planning and management of the federal budget funds that emerged in 2010—2013, starting from 2017, is undergoing changes aimed at introducing the principles of project management of investment expenditures of the federal budget funds. The most significant of the changes presented is the transfer of investment expenditures aimed at the development of the transport and energy industries into understandable and limited in time and budget federal projects within the framework of the Comprehensive Plan for the modernization and expansion of the main infrastructure for the period up to 2024, approved in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 7, 2018 No. 204 “On the national goals and strategic objectives of the development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2024”. However, due to the inertia of the state budget management system, the project management system is implemented with excessive labor costs, duplication of processes and with certain assumptions, which leads to a lack of understanding by government authorities of the value of this process and a decrease in its effectiveness. One of the objectives of the implementation of project management is the  involvement of all subjects of the Federation in the planning of investment expenditures of the federal budget in terms of allocating funding for projects initiated by the regions, through the creation of an open and transparent system of allocating federal expenditures. At the same time, the presence of a system with multi-level and often duplicated coordination of expenses, with blurred limits of competence and powers, simultaneously with the budget process that is strictly regulated in time, does not allow to fully involve the subjects of the Russian Federation in the management of project activities.

In Russia, the topic of modernization continues to be relevant. The government, the parliament, the opposition, and the scientific community regard it as an urgent task. The process of economic growth, which began in the 00s, is viewed as recovery after the USSR catastrophe, and the modernization project is associated with the construction of the Russian analogue of the Western “welfare society”, in many ways resembling old dreams of “socialism with a human face”. But there are various options for modernization. In the 1980-s S. Hall proposed the concept of regressive modernization for characterize the policy of the government of M. Thatcher. This concept allows a much better understanding of the history of the 1990s and the current economic policy in Russia. The specific paradox of regressive modernization is that the Russian center-right government conducts elements of neoliberal politics in combination with state paternalism and even populism. Elements of social archaics, such as clericalism and national autonomy, which enjoy separate legal regimes within the Federation, remind us of a flexible imperial political system. The export of traditionalism and paternalism, which at the same time look like a modern institutional design, is the basis of Russian “soft power”. This creates opportunities for increasing profitable trade and economic cooperation with countries of both left orientation and preserving autocratic, right-wing conservative political regimes.

The socio-economic space of small and medium-sized entrepreneurship plays a significant role in its development. It is the awareness and understanding of this space as a systemrelated aggregate dynamic space of the state, entrepreneurial ecosystems and society based on building and transforming the relations of these subjects in the business economy and culture to modify the design of state regulation of SME at the stage of the digital economy formation, since it is the transformation itself entrepreneurial ecosystems and societies is a signal for activation of «bottom-up» policy. At the same time, the «top-down» policy implemented by the government in relation to the transformation of the architecture of the socio-economic space of SME should meet the requirements of effective development of the state. The balance of these two policies and can form an effective SME. That’s why conceptual approaches to the transformation of SME socio-economic space should be based on the construction of a clear algorithm for the formation of state policy in relation to small and medium-sized entrepreneurship, taking intoaccount the views of stakeholders and the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem and society.

Questions of the organization of the budget process, relate not only to the ergonomics of the budget process, they go back to the problem of reproduction of state solvency. Meanwhile, the dependence of the state’s solvency on its efficiency, which, in turn, is a function of budget policy and features of decision-making on the use of public Finance, is not yet fully realized. The role and place of strategic planning documents in the budget policy, their relationship with the basic laws that directly affect the budget and tax, debt policy, financial relations of the Federal budget withthe budgets of the subjects of the Russian Federation, local budgets need to be clarified. It is not clear what role national projects should play in budget policy and how they should be reflected in the budget pr oces s. In the study of the chain links of such dependencies the author uses an extraordinary approach. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the budget process is carried out not by means of financial and economic indicators, the main parametersof the budget system, but based on the goals, objectives and expected results of budget policy. The principles of transparency and stability of the budget process, understood asquite applied and «counting» parameters, are proposed as the basis of the study. The criteria for evaluating the conditions of efficiency of formation, consideration, execution and control of budget decisions are introduced. As the results of the study, the author characterizes the tasks and tools to optimize the Federal budget process.

Since 2019, in pilot mode (a list of pilot projects — 35 subsoil plots, the volume of production of which is about 4% of Russia’s annual oil production), a federal tax on additional income from the extraction of hydrocarbon raw materials (TAI) has come into effect. TAI refers to tax mechanisms based on economic results, in contrast to the current mineral extraction tax, where taxable items are gross indicators of the amount or cost of hydrocarbons produced. The transition from tax mechanisms based on gross figures to taxation based on economic results has been the global trend of the last fifty years. TAI can be an effective tax incentive mechanism that can ensure the involvement in the development of low-margin hydrocarbon reserves in the current taxation, as well as the introduction of promising methods to increase oil recovery. Currently, according to the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, the TAI can be applied to IV groups of subsoil plots (indicating their location and the degree of depletion of reserves). At the same time, the selection criteria for these plots do not fully take into account the tasks facing the state (budget, public, technological, etc.). Considering that the Ministry of Finance of Russia, based on the results of the implementation of pilot projects, envisages a gradual transition of the oil industry to TAI, an urgent task is to improve the selection mechanism of mining projects to provide this tax preference, including by developing a comprehensive system of selection criteria and a transparent methodology for ranking projects. The proposed approach to competitive selection of subsoil plots for transfer to TAI is based on weighted sum and combinatorial optimization methods.

The main strategic goal of the state is the transition to an innovative socially oriented type of economic development. In this regard, the study of factors influencing the results of innovation in the real sector of the economy is a necessary tool of territorial administration. In the presented article the cluster analysis of regions of the Central Federal District (hereinafterthe CENTER) with use of Varda method on five groups of integral factors, characterized by indicators of solvent demand of the population, is carried out. Financial and economic potential, information and communication infrastructure, innovative potential and innovative production. The conducted cluster analysis revealed the conditions under which innovation activity and destructive features of functioning of regional innovative systems of the central Federal District are carried out. In the course of the study it was established that, first, the analyzed regions are characterized by differentiation in development on all groups of indicators, secondly, there is a “gap” between the innovative potential and efficiency of innovative production, Thirdly, there is no correlation between socio-economic and innovative parameters. In particular, with high socio-economic indicators, Moscow has a relatively low value specific the indicator of innovative production. This situation requires the development of a set of measures to improve the efficiency of the use of innovative potential, the introduction of programs to increase innovation activity, as well as the elimination of imbalances between levels Socio-economic and innovative development.

Officially published statistics on socio-economic development of the regions implies significant disadvantages such as considerable time delay and insufficient validity. Analysis of banking indicators greatly contributes to easing the problems. Indicators on payment dynamics, changes in payment and settlement infrastructure, the structure of the bank resources, and lending to various loaners successfully complement and verify findings based on the traditional economic data on the real sector of the economy and the financial condition of citizens. In the Central Federal District, data on the banking sector activity confirms the official economic growth rates. During research no relations were found between the average per capita income and the amount of bank savings of individuals. We revealed the dominance of mortgage lending in the debt structure of individuals. Share of mortgage lending is larger in the most depressive regions. We figured out the inverse relationship between the growth of debt load and overdue debt in Central Federal region. The large companies contribute to the development of the most successful regions the way more than small and medium-sized business. Digitalization is a sequence of economic growth.

Currently, the topic of strategic planning is very relevant for Russia. This applies not only foreign policy, but also certain economic, social, and humanitarian areas, which are all crucial for the development of the country. In this regard, it is interesting to study the world experience, in particular the experience of the Asian region countries. The article is devoted to analysis of the main components of the strategic planning of socio-economic and political development in China, Japan, and South Korea. This study is carried out with the help of a comprehensive study of the fundamental foreign policy documents of the above countries. The authors pay special attention to analyzing the latest Chinese  initiatives of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road Initiative of the XXI century, their possible link with similar Japanese, Russian and South Korean initiatives, problems and difficulties in their implementation. The authors express their vision of practical opportunities and risks for Russia in the light of new trends in strategic planning in the countries of the studied region.

Peering lending arose as a response to the challenge of time at the moment when banks showed their weak points: extreme over-regulation and sluggishness. It is the reason leading to the emergence in the global financial market of a new mechanism — peertopeer lending, which requires a comprehensive study, which is advisable to start with an analysis of peer-to-peer lending markets in two founding countries — the United Kingdom and the United States. The stages of development of the peering mechanism in these countries reflect the trends of the world market as a whole. The structural and dynamic analysis made it possible to identify general trends in the development of markets in terms of slowing their growth rates over the next five years, which indicates that markets have reached their maximum and the need to find new ways of qualitative development in order to increase the numbers. Analysis of differences in legislative regulation of markets showed that the main differences are based on the use of different peer-to-peer crediting models in the UK and the USA, which in turn leads to nonidentical regulatory objects from a legal point of view, although in general the concept of peer-to-peer lending does not change.

In 2018, a number of publications on procurement systems of the regions of the Russian Federation, regulated by 44-FL, were launched, including the results of the Rating of efficiency and transparency of procurement systems of the regions of the Russian Federation, which since 2015 has been conducted by the All-Russian public organization “Guild of domestic buyers and specialists in purchasing and sales”. A distinctive feature of this rating from other existing projects for evaluating regional procurement activities is the multidimensionality of assessment. The Rating Toolkit provides an opportunity to form analytics that allow making management decisions to improve the region’s procurement system, including experience of other regions that have reached higher levels. The r ating of r egions is built in eight indicator s separately for state and municipal procurement: assessment of the organizational structure of procurement in the region; assessment of the information infrastructure of the region; regulatory framework of the region; assessment of customers’ professionalism and availability of qualified personnel; evaluation of procurement procedures; compliance with procurement law requirements; execution of contracts; removing administrative barriers and ensuring the availability of information on the regional system of state and municipal procurement. The rating building mechanism is “alive”; it is updated as the legislation on procurement changes. The results are summarized for each indicator separately, which makes it possible to identify the strengths of the region in specific areas of procurement activities. The rating is calculated annually based on the results of the previous financial year. Participation in the rating is voluntary. In 2017 (following the results of 2016) 40 regions took part in the calculation of the Rating. In 2018, 46 regions took part in the State Procurement Rating and 35 by municipal ones. In 2019, the number of participants makes up 51 regions for government procurement and 38 for municipal purchases. Leaders were identified for each of the nominations. All information on the calculation process and the results of the Rating is open and posted on the website of the All-Russian public organization “Guild of domestic buyers and specialists in purchasing and sales”.