The article analyzes the content and the realization mechanisms of the modernization policy of the Russian federalism. The paper reveals its main characteristics and trends at different stages of formation and realization. The authors review the optimization scenarios for the Russian model of territorial structure and identify the factors of positive and negative development of the situation in this sphere.

The paper presents a study of the potential of public-private partnership (PPP) mechanisms as a factor of reducing tensions in the labour market in the Russian regions. The paper shows the possibilities of the solution with the help of PPP's tools of such problems as: the reduction of unemployment in the Russian regions, the activation of the employment services, the restructuring of the staffing of regional labour markets, ensuring skills development.

The article is devoted to the actual questions of elaboration of the methodological tools for the estimation of investment activity in Russia's regions for the perfection of state the investment policy. The author scientifically proves the utilization of a new set of indicators of investment activity. The paper offers the results of experimental calculations, based on the national statistical data for 2007-2012. The author elaborated the map of Russia' regions ranged in accordance with the level of investment activity in 2012.

The article investigates the problem of management of structural changes in the economy and offers macroeconomic indicators and parameters which should be considered in assessing structural changes. The author proposes an algorithm for the formation of the structural policy in Russia, proves its necessity and highlights the main problems of its implementation.

The paper provides the characteristic of the economic nature of social taxation and social security as complementary institutions. The paper reviews the evolution of the national labour insurance system into the social taxation system for all categories of the population during the twentieth century. The author gives the characteristic of the role of the modern fiscal policy in forming the situation of social protection in the Russian society.

The article studies the legislation in the sphere of planning of socio-economic development in Russia. The papers makes focus on the basic shortages of the system of state planning of socio-economic development. The author proposes the directions of improvement the system of state planning policies of social and economic development of Russia.

The article considers the mortgage lending development trends in Russia in 2005-2012. The author discovers the relationship of mortgage lending development and the dynamics of consumer sentiment indices. Special attention is paid to the methodological aspects of the mortgage lending dynamics' analysis. The paper contains the scenario forecast of the mortgage lending development based on the growth model determined by consumer sentiment indices. The paper shows that a number of economic and political events, recently took place in Russia, could lead to the implementation of the pessimistic scenario associated with the decline in the consumer sentiment indices and the consequent reduction in the volume of mortgage debt.

The paper considers the main trends of migration processes' in the post-Soviet Russia and their impact on the labour potential of its territories. The author analyzes the effects, including mutual exchange of personnel between federal districts. The paper proves the necessity to activate the migration policy measures and proposes replenishing measures with labour force for eastern and northern regions of the country, primarily through labour resources' rational redistribution.

The paper considers the problems of the human capital development. The article contains author's approach to the analysis of its measurement. The author offers the technique of measuring the conditions for the development of human capital with the release of the conditions of its reproduction, accumulation and realization. The paper provides testing results of this methodology basing on the example of the regions of the Volga Federal District.

The article considers institutional aspects of the municipal reform in Russia during 2003-2013. The paper provides the evaluation of both positive and problematic results of the reform, including the institutionalization of local self-government in the regions of the country. The author proves the suggestions to expand the number of operating institutions of local self-government, basing both on the specificity of various types of Russian regions and on the task to strengthen the role of the municipal level of governing in the solution of the problem of Russia economy modernization.

The article reviews the problems of legal and budgetary relations in the practice of formation of local budgets in the Russian Federation. The paper shows the experience of budgetary relations' regulation in Kemerovo region and seeking the reserves of replenishment of municipal units' budgets. The author formulates possible directions of improvement of the legal and budgetary relations in forming budgets of municipalities.

The article on the example of the Kemerovo region examines the experience of local government as an independent level of public authority in the implementation of the constitutional principle of its organizational isolation. The paper considers the formation of local self-government bodies in 1990's and analyzes current problems of local governments' activity. The author offers some recommendations of the legislative and practical nature for improving the system and structure of local government bodies.

The article deals with the new organizational forms of intellectual property commercialization in the industrially developed countries. The papers focuses on the rises of competition for the obtaining of U.S. and European patents by the most developed Asian countries and a sharp increase in patenting of inventions in China. The paper reviews some new organizational innovations, which are implemented in the United States and Western Europe with the aim to preserve the existing competitive advantages. Among these innovations - the reform of the patent system in the United States and the transition to a single European patent. The paper discusses introducing in some Western European countries and in China a new mechanism of stimulating industrial companies engaged in the successful commercialization of the patented innovation.

The article is devoted to the causes of the current imbalances in the budget process in the Russian Federation. Attention is paid to the fact that the analysis of the law on the execution of the Federal budget for 2012 has been signed by the President on September, the 30^th, 2013, i.e. on the day, when the State Duma received a draft of the budget for 2014. Such practice doesn't allow to avoid errors in the formation of the federal budget. Only peer review of the budget performance in the previous period will make it possible to remove the above problem. Such an approach, basing on the example of the federal budget for 2012 evaluation, is proposed in the paper.

The article analyzes the current situation in the Russian labour market. The author examines the main measures of the state policy in the sphere of population employment promoting, namely the implementation of regional programs of employment of the population. The paper presents the most popular professions in the Russian labour market.

The paper examines the problems of scientifically proved realization of interaction between landscape and time regularities of nature utilization for the solution of problems of reservation of high-rise belts pasture lands in Republic of Dagestan.

The article examines the socio-political situation in contemporary Russia through the prism of the concept of social and political demarcation of S. Lipset and S. Rokkan. The paper releases several types of socio-political demarcation inherent to the post-Soviet period of Russian society: territorial; professional and educational; economic and political disengagement, as well as axiological division considered as the key one - society representatives discrepancy in the perception of reality, in estimating current events and in inserting different meanings in a committed acts.

The article analyzes the methodology for determining the gross municipal product of the Ural economic region. The paper contains author's approach to the calculation of its volume for the million-population cities, which makes it possible to determine the share of these cities in the gross regional product of the Ural economic region. The paper presents calculations of the gross municipal product of Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Perm and Ufa for the period of 2009-2011.