RUSSIAN ARCTIC: FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH POSITIONS
The paper presents the fundamental problem of forming new strategic priorities of Russian Arctic development taking into the account the global trends and long-term goals of Russian Federation progress. We provided the basic approaches directed to solve this problem and preliminary results for the each approach as well. We formulated four critical contradictions of socio-economic development of Russian Arctic. First of them is in geopolitics. The second one is due to the current economic policy. The third contradiction arose in innovation policy. Last but not least is in the field of science. It is presented existing direction of scientific research in socio-economic problems of North and Arctic. One of the reason of intensification of the four contradictions has arisen due to the lack of validity of political and practical activities aimed at regulating socio-economic processes in Russian Arctic. This makes research of subject matter of socio-economic development of Russian North and Arctic to be important.