ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF SPATIAL-TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND TOOLS OF THEIR DIAGNOSTICS
Purpose: to study the urgent problems of the spatial and territorial development of the Russian Federation and the tools for their diagnosis. Discussion: the article conducted a scientific search for relevant approaches and methods to study the features and patterns of spatial and territorial development within the regions, federal districts and the Russian Federation; as a whole, analyzed well-known techniques and international methodological approaches to the diagnosis of regional socio-economic problems and situations, formulated conclusion about the need for significant modernization of the existing tools for monitoring and research of regional and municipal problems s situations and sources of their occurrence, in relation to the specific problem locations, already had experience of social unrest and upheaval as an extreme form of instability of socio-economic processes. Results: the circumstances justified the need for significant modernization of the existing tools for monitoring and researching regional and municipal problem situations and the sources of their occurrence, especially in terms of specific locations that already had experience of social unrest and upheaval as an extreme form of instability of socio-economic processes.