Sobyanin, S.S. Formation of legal mechanisms of overcoming disproportion of regional development as a stage of improvement of federal relations in Russia.

Abstract: Although in late years the disproportion of development of various regions of Russia somewhat smoothed out, still there are many backward and depressed regions. The backward regions are ones which have been low on development for decades, and the depressed regions, such as Mari El, Chuvash Republic, Udmurt Republic, Khabarovsky krai, Bryanskaya, Kirovskaya, Kurganskaya, Pskovskaya oblasts, are regions which recently fell back due to the crisis in military production industry, which was their leading sphere of specialization…