Federalism as an institutional priority of the spatial development strategy for Russia

The article focuses on the inadmissibility of “impoverishment” of the content and the basic objectives of the developed Strategy of spatial development of the Russian Federation. The experience in this regard shows that the Strategy can repeat the serious lack of Federal law № 172 on strategic planning, which is related to the absence of a specific block of institutional strategic planning. This is traditionally understood as long-term foresight and targeting those institutional innovations, which in the future will ensure the achievement of the priorities of sectoral and spatial development of the national economy. The improvement of the main components of the Russian model of federalism is undoubtedly one of the important institutional dominants of the perspective socio-economic development. The apparent loss of attention to this component of the country’s institutional framework for sustainable development is clearly unjustifiable: the previously declared “Federal reform” obviously has not been completed...