Updating of approaches to the assessment of the level of the economic security of regions of the Far East of Russia

World financial and economic crisis and political events of the last years on the western borders of Russia made the problem of the modernization of the strategy of social and economic development important again. It means for Russia, in particular, its activization of “the Eurasian mission” in the realization of which the key positions are assigned to the Far East border regions (Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krai, the Amur and Sakhalin regions). The article is devoted to the assessment of the level of economic security of these territorial subjects of the federation. The author offered and approved the technique of the assessment of the general integrated level of the economic security of the region based on the definition of values of the general rated indicator of safety of a national (regional) economic complex. Among the indicators analyzed in calculations it is offered to use the data: gross regional product, gross harvest of crops, volume of investment into fixed capital, unemployment rate, internal operating costs for researches and developments, share of innovative production in the total amount of industrial production, share of persons with the monetary income below a living wage, decile coefficient of differentiation of the income of the population and share of mechanical engineering and metal working in the total amount of industrial production...