MODERNIZATION OF RUSSIAN ECONOMY: ETHNIC AND REGIONAL ASPECTS

The article has reviewed the issues of the necessity for modernization of economics of the Russian Federation with consideration of the ethnic diversity of the population and the peculiarities of development of the regions of the country. The thesis about the need to conceptualize the notion of the ethnic economics in the general socio-economic discourse regarding the implementation of the modernization processes on the territory of the Russian Federation has been put forward. The hypothesis about the need to accelerate the promotion of modernization processes from the growth points to the regions of the Russian Federation has been proposed. The ideological systemic problem of setting the task of modernization with regards to the aspect of culture and morality has been revealed. The issues of the relations between the regional ethnic elites and innovation activity have been analyzed.

modernization of the economics, regional policy, regions, ethnic, inter-ethnic, ethnic economics, society, traditional society, administrative-territorial division, socio-cultural diversity