MACROREGIONS AND THE MESOLEVEL OF ECONOMIC SECURITY OF RUSSIA
The approval of macro-regions as an important participant of strategic planning process is one of the most significant innovations in ongoing changes in the system of public administration in the Russian Federation. Macro-regions are designed to form the meso-level of strategic planning. This innovation acquires the greatest importance for functioning of the spatial component of socio-economic strategizing and in ensuring spatial components of economic security. Since implementation of the national security, in particular, economic security requirements are the necessary component of the entire system of strategic planning, it is important to investigate how management and control capabilities of macro-regions will answer these requirements. The article deals with the general concept of macroregions, illustrates their relationship with federal districts, as well as measures necessary for the real approval of macroregions in the status of participants of strategic planning, including issues of economic security.