Methodological problems and organizational structure of the spatial development governance

This paper deals with methodological problems of governance of regional socio-economic development in the conditions of elaboration of a new system of state and local government. Offered has been a new approach to regional governance, which is characterized by taking into account the objective conditions and controversies of regional reproduction, by the orientation of management at the improving of regional economy competitiveness and the use of new instruments of state regulation and methods of planning and forecasting at a regional level. On the basis of generalization of operational experiences of regional and municipal authorities and on that of the analysis of schemes and procedures of planning and forecasting, a new structure of governance bodies of the RF spatial development ensuring the unity and the interrelation between regional and municipal authorities has been worked out.