"FEDERALIZM" #4 (64) 2011

SPATIAL ECONOMY

Liliya MATRAEVA

Statistical approach to study trends in foreign direct investment flows to Russian economy

In this article author reviews relevant questions of statistical study of foreign direct investments in Russia. Method of systemizing factors impacting investment potential of a region is proposed by author. She also performs multidimensional grouping of regions based on groups of factors selected.

Keywords: differentiation, investment attractiveness, investment potential, foreign direct investments (FDI)

MATRAEVA Liliya Valerievna, Cand. Sc. (Econ.), docent of of the chair of Economic & Finance in Russian State University of Trade and Economics, e-mail: matraeva@rambler.ru

Yuriy SAVELIEV

Substantiation and choice of strategies for increase of Russian regions’ competitiveness

Sources and factors of region’s competitiveness are considered in the article. The dynamic approach to their classification is offered. The typology of the Russian regions on the basis of used factors of competitiveness and incomes generated by them is offered in the article. Structural strategies for increasing region’s competitiveness are offered.

Keywords: region’s competition, factors of competition, competitive advantages, typology of Russian regions, regional structural policy

SAVELIEV Yuriy Vladimirovich, Doct. of Econ., Secretary General for Science of The Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences (KarRC RAS), e-mail: savel@krc.karelia.ru

NATIONAL INNOVATIONAL SYSTEMS

Valentina MUZYCHUK, Elena FEDOROVA

Personnel for innovative breakthrough: to be or not to be?

The article is devoted to the main problems and prospects of personnel administration to launch innovative processes in the Russian economy. The article focuses on the current state of scientific research personnel, the system of training and retraining as well as on working conditions and the practice of stimulation in organizations engaged in research and development.

Keywords: public policy in education and science, innovative economy, scientific research personnel, system of training and retraining

MUZYCHUK Valentina Yurievna, Cand. Sc. (Econ.), Head of the Sector, Institute of Economics, RAS, e-mail: v-muzychuk@yandex.ru
FEDOROVA Elena Sergeevna, Cand. Sc. (Econ.), Senior Researcher, Institute of Economics, RAS, e-mail: esg1@yandex.ru

Stalina BELOZEROVA

The labor relations and modernization of the Russian economy

In the article the features of formation and regulation of labor relations at various stages of development of the domestic economy are considered. The principles of compensation of expenditures of labor in the conditions of the innovative model of development are characterized.

Keywords: state regulation, motivation, stimulation, labor relations, economy of innovations

BELOZEROVA Stalina Mikhailovna, Dr. Sc. (Econ.), leading scientific researcher, Laboratory of social and labor relations, Institute of Economics, RAS, e-mail: stalina_m@sumail.ru

Alexander DAGAEV, Anna YAKOVLEVA

Ecosystem of innovations (regional features of formation and development)

The article is dedicated to innovation ecosystems formation and development. The conditions required for their emergence and maturity assessment approach (basing on the example of US metropolitan area including the Silicon Valley) and the city of Tomsk are revealed in the article.

Keywords: innovative ecosystemes, mathematical models, regional development, stages of maturity, preconditions for formation

DAGAEV Alexander Alexandrovich, Cand. Sc. (Tech.), Associate professor, Higher School of Economics (National Research University), e-mail: dagaev.aa@gmail.com
YAKOVLEVA Anna Yurievna, Senior lecturer, Higher School of Economics (National Research University), e-mail: ayakovleva@hse.ru

SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

Lyudmila LYKOVA

Economic consequences of the tax resident status definition in Russia

In the article quantitative parameters of across-the-border movement of foreign investments and dividend payments in Russia are considered. The applied criterion of definition of the status of the tax resident for the organizations in Russia is analyzed, the expediency of using additional criteria is proved. Proposals on pointing out two categories of tax residents of the organizations in order to establish a more uniform mode of taxation of domestic and foreign capital investments in the Russian economy are formulated.

Keywords: tax resident, profit tax, dividends, foreign investments, Russian organization

LYKOVA Lyudmila Nikitichna, Dr. Sc. (Econ.), Professor, chief scientific researcher, Institute of Economics, RAS, e-mail: lykoval@inecon.ru

Veniamin SIMONOV, Dmitry KOMAROV

The state monetary and credit policy of Russia In the conditions of system crisis of world economy

In article the nature of system crisis of world economy is characterized, the analogy to economic crises in the Russian Federation during last decades is provided; the key problems facing the Government and the Central bank of the Russian Federation are specified. The short analysis of the maintenance of the basic directions of a uniform state monetary and credit policy for 2012 and for 2013 and 2014 is resulted.

Keywords: Bank of Russia, a monetary and credit policy, inflation, exchange rates’ risks, system crisis of world economy

SIMONOV Veniamin Vladimirovich, Dr. Sc. (Econ.), Professor, department head, Accounting Chamber of the Russian Federation, e-mail: simonov_vv@gov.ru
KOMAROV Dmitry Vladimirovich, The adviser of the state civil service of the Russian Federation 3 classes, e-mail: komarov@ach.gov.ru

LOCAL AUTONOMY

Dmitriy GORODETSKIY

The innovative strategy of the local authority - the main resource of the municipal reform

The experience of strategic development of urban district Domodedovo, one of the leaders of Moscow Region’s economy, is analyzed in this article. The ways of attraction of investors and “starting” innovative processes on the territory of the municipality are described.

Keywords: urban district, Domodedovo, investors, innovations, a municipal reform, the strategy of the municipality development

GORODETSKIY Dmitriy Igorevich, Dr. Sc. (Econ.), Chief of Domodedovo urban district Municipal Administration, Moscow Region, Russia, professor of Russian State Humanities University, e-mail: gorod@domod.ru

Alexandra ODINTSOVA

Experience of participation of the local governments in economy development

In article the author considers some principles and directions of territorial decentralization abroad. Forms of the assistance of the local governments to the enterprises are characterized. The special attention is given to the problems and practice of municipal governing in developing countries.

Keywords: innovations, local governance, local management the local governments, developing countries, territorial decentralization, territorial administration

ODINTSOVA Alexandra Vladimirovna, Dr. Sc. (Econ.), leading scientific researcher, Center for methodological and historic-economic studies, Institute of Economics, RAS, e-mail: odintsova@inecon.ru

Vitaly VASILTSOV

Investment support of innovative potential in Cherepovets

The article analyzes the efficiency of investment processes in Cherepovets, which are reflecting the level of innovation potential of enterprises and the economy of the city. Prospects, strengths and weaknesses of the economic development in Cherepovets are studied.

Keywords: investment, innovation potential, municipal formation, the structure of the budget, SWOT-analysis

VASILTSOV Vitaly Sergeevich, Cand. Sc. (Econ.), associate professor, GOU VPO Cherepovets State University, e-mail: 3297@rambler.ru

PAST. PRESENT. FUTURE

Igor BAKHLOV, Irina NAPALKOVA

Formation of the Russian empire as a territorial system

The article examines the main approaches to the problem of formation of the Russian Empire as a complex political and territorial system: the Byzantine, Eurasian, modernization, colonization, orientalist approaches, etc. The basics of the evolutionary approach to the analysis of the dynamics of the Russian Empire are formulated.

Keywords: empire, conceptualization, interdisciplinary analysis, modernization, transformation, evolution

BAKHLOV Igor Vladimirovich, Dr. Sc. (Polit.), Head of the chair of the World History and the World Political Process of the N. P. Ogarev Mordovian State University, Head of the Scientific and Educational Center “Political Analysis of Territorial Systems”, e-mail: bahlov@mail.ru
NAPALKOVA Irina Gennadievna, Cand. Sc. (Hist.), associate professor of the World History and the World Political Process of the N. P. Ogarev Mordovian State University, senior researcher of the Scientific and Educational Center “Political Analysis of Territorial Systems”, e-mail: zamisi@yandex.ru

Nikolai KRASNYAKOV

Bessarabian region as a part of the Russian empire: legal and political status

Basing on the wide range of sources the processes of autonomy development in Bessarabia are analyzed. The features of the developing public and regionalist character of power relations on the western borders of the Russian Empire in the context of national specific features of population are noted.

Keywords: Bessarabian region, public administration, Russia, region, integration, Empire

KRASNYAKOV Nikolai Ivanovich, Cand. Sc. (Law), associate professor, department of theory and history of state and law, Siberian Academy of Public Administration, e-mail: kofe51@yandex.ru

ANALITICAL NOTES

Alexey MAKLAKHOV

Efficiency of flax complex clustering

The article considers the results of the implementation of the pilot project “Development of Vologda region flax complex by means of interbranch and interterritorial cooperation”. The author justifies the prospects of cluster approach to the development of the linen industry in Russia.

Keywords: flax, flax complex, flax cluster, competitiveness, technical re-equipment

MAKLAKHOV Alexey Vasilievich, Cand. Sc. (Econ.), Head of Department of industry, science and innovation policy of Vologda Oblast Government, e-mail: maklahov@vologda-oblast.ru

Irina BUKINA

Tax resident status and double taxation agreements: foreign experience

This article reviews foreign law principles concerning the treatment of tax resident status. Special attention is paid to the problem of capital flight that is closely connected with tax regimes. Russian double taxation conventions are also analyzed in this way.

Keywords: controlled foreign corporation, tax resident, double taxation, capital flight, double tax convention

BUKINA Irina Sergeevna, Cand. Sc. (Econ.), senior scientific researcher, Institute of Economics RAS, e-mail: bis.email@gmail.com

Evgeny BUKHVALD

Problems and prospects of innovative business in the special economic zone (on the materials of questioning residents of SEZ «Dubna»)

On the basis of questioning enterprises located in the special economic zone (SEZ) of technical application «Dubna», the article considers basic problems of zone residents’ activity. The paper contains proposals relating to the perfection of state support of innovative enterprises in SEZ.

Keywords: innovative activity and its state promoting, small innovative enterprises, special economic zones, financing of innovations

BUKHVALD Evgeny Moiseevich, Dr. Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Head of the sector of regional policy and local self-government, leader of the Center for the economy of federal relations, Institute of Economics, RAS, e-mail: buchvald@inecon.ru

Viktor BYRLEDYANU

Influence of the Constitutional Presumptions on the Russian Federalism

In article the problem of influence of the presumptions containing in the text of the Constitution of Russia 1993 on development of federal relations, on processes of formation of national legal system and legal systems of subjects of Federation is investigated.

Keywords: the Constitutional Presumptions, national legal system, legal system of the subject of the Russian Federation, federal relations

BYRLEDYANU Viktor Ioanovich, Cand. Sc. (Law), Associate professor, Head of chair of civil law and civil procedure, Orel State University, e-mail: vibyr1@mail.ru

YOUNG SCIENTISTS

Olesya KLETKINA

Investigation of prevention management of youth addictive behavior based on the hierarchies’ analysis method

The article presents the methodology of sociological investigations in the study of prevention management of youth addictive behavior. The study was conducted using the method of expert interview in the Amur Oblast and Zabaikalsky Krai.

Keywords: addictive behavior, method of hierarchies’ analysis, expert survey, region, management of prevention

KLETKINA Olesya Sergeevna, Postgraduate student, Zabaikalsky State University, e-mail: fridda@inbox.ru

Aleksey KHRAMOV

From the Traditional Russian Empire to the Modernized One

The article analyzes the processes of modernization of ideology of the traditional Russian Empire. Brief characteristics of political projects of reforming the system of power and territorial administration in Russia are given.

Keywords: empire, imperial idea, modernization, political project, evolution

KHRAMOV Aleksey Viktorovich, PostGraduate student of the N. P. Ogarev Mordovian State University, e-mail: alex_hramov@list.ru