Russia’s strategic priorities in the Arctic: the administrative legal aspect
The article aims to reveal Russia’s strategic priorities in the Arctic. The relevance of this research is based on the steady interest of the international community in the Arctic - the region that has enormous natural resources and specific advantages of its geographical location. The authors of the article point out that the Arctic region plays a special role in the strategic priorities of the Russian Federation, sustainable development and global management in the world and is of economic, geopolitical and military strategic importance. The article makes an attempt to carry out an analysis of the content of a number of the conceptual documents aimed at the development of the Arctic, including the Fundamentals of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic for the period until 2020 and beyond, the Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation, the Strategy for developing the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation and ensuring national security until 2020, and to characterise some main directions and strategic priorities designed for developing the Russian Arctic Zone and ensuring national security in the process of implementing the state policy in the Arctic. The authors point out the need for complex accumulation of competitive advantages in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation for strengthening of the positions of the country in the Arctic, consolidating international security and peacekeeping and stability in the region.