The roads that we do not choose (on the government «Strategy of spatial development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025»)

Abstract

The article analyzes the causes and predicts the consequences of the recent (in February 2019). the adoption of the «Strategy of spatial development of the Russian Federation» — a natural, according to the author, evidence of the continuation of the former regional policy of the state, including the consolidation in the future of the initiated contraction in large-city agglomerations of material, financial, human and other resources, focus on point pockets of preferential stimulated economic activity. In this regard, it is shown on what conceptual and ideological Foundation the development of the «Strategy» was based and what mechanisms of implementation are proposed in it. As a concrete example, the government of the Russian Federation adopted a «comprehensive plan for the modernization and expansion of the main infrastructure for the period up to 2024» in the development of the «Strategy», planning another «road that we do not choose».