Socio-cultural transformation of Buryatiya
The article examines demographic, social and economic development processes of Buryatiya in the 1990s and 2000s. The reforms of the 1990s and subsequent economic and social depression in Buryatia are replaced by innovations of the 2000s in the forms of direct support of this geopolitically important territory. However, innovations are not sufficient to combat remoteness, extensive forms of production, consequences of industrial depression, population decline, social problems unless the core of modernization mechanism changes.