—assist the growth of well-being, the reduction of poverty and of income disparities with the goal of ensuring continuous access of all citizens to a quantity of food products essential to a healthy lifestyle;

—create the conditions necessary for living a healthy lifestyle, stimulate birth rates, and lower death rates;

—improve and develop transport infrastructure, increase protection of the population from emergency situations of both natural and man-made origins;

—ensure the preservation of a cultural and spiritual legacy, the accessibility of information technologies, and likewise of information on various issues of the sociopolitical, economic, and spiritual life of society;

—improve public-private partnership with the goal of strengthening the material-technical base of healthcare, cultural and educational institutions, of developing residential construction projects, and enhancing the quality of housing and community services.

4. ECONOMIC GROWTH

53.Strategic national security objectives include Russia’s entry, in the medium term, into the ranks of the top five countries by size of GDP and likewise the achievement of the necessary degree of national security in the economic and technological spheres.

54.The provision of national security by means of economic growth is achieved by developing a national system of innovation, increasing the productivity of labor, acquiring new resources, modernizing priority sectors of the national economy, and improving the banking system, the financial services sector, and inter-governmental fiscal relations in the Russian Federation.

55.The main long-term strategic risks and threats to national security in the economic sphere are the maintenance of a raw materials export model of economic development, the lessening of competitiveness and the high dependence on external economic conditions, the loss of control over national resources, the worsening of the condition of the industrial and energy resource base, the unequal development of the regions and progressive labor shortages, the low levels of stability and protection of the national financial system, the persistence of conditions conducive to the corruption and criminalization of economic and financial relationships, and also to illegal migration.

56.The insufficient effectiveness of state regulation of the national economy, falling economic growth rates, the appearance of trade and balance of payment deficits, the contraction of budget revenues could lead to delays in the transition to innovation-based growth, and to the consequent accumulation of social problems in the country.

57.A direct negative effect on national security in the economic sphere may be exerted by a deficit of fuel-energy, water, and biological resources, by the adoption of discriminatory measures and the intensification of unfair competition with regards to Russia, and likewise due to crisis phenomena in the global financial-banking system.

58.For the provision of national security by means of economic growth, the Russian Federation is concentrating its main efforts on the development of science, technology, and education, and on the improvement of national investment and financial institutions, in the interests of achieving an essential level of security in the military, military-industrial, and international spheres.

59.Threats to national security related to disproportional levels of development among subjects of the Russian Federation are prevented by means of a rational regional policy directed at the improved coordination of state bodies, local administrations, the business community, and civil society.

60.One of the main long-term directions of national security in the economic sphere is energy security. Essential conditions of national and global energy security include multilateral cooperation in the interests of creating markets for energy resources that correspond to WTO principles, the development and international exchange of promising energy-saving technologies and likewise the use of ecologically clean, alternative sources of energy.

The main aspects of energy security are the stable supply of sufficient standard quality sources of energy; the effective use of energy resources by increasing the competitiveness of domestic producers; the prevention of possible fuel-energy resource deficits; the creation of strategic stocks of fuel, reserve capacities, and standard equipment; and ensuring the stable functioning of the system of energy and fuel provision.

61.In order to counteract threats to economic security, the forces of national security in cooperation with civil society institutions aim to support state socioeconomic policy, which is directed at:

—perfecting structures of production and export, antimonopoly regulation, and support for competition policy;

—developing a national system of innovation with the goal of implementing highly effective projects and priority programs developing the high-technology economic sectors;

—strengthening financial markets and increasing the liquidity of the banking system;

—reducing the informal sector and legalizing labor relations, increasing investment in the development of human capital;

—balancing the interests of the indigenous population with those of migrant laborers, taking into account their ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and denominational differences, including by improving migration records and likewise by ensuring the fair territorial distribution of migrant labor based on the labor resource requirements of the regions;

—establishing a system of scientific and technical forecasting and implementing scientific and technical priorities, intensifying the integration of science, education, and industry;

—creating conditions for the development of a competitive domestic pharmaceutical industry;

—developing the industries of information and telecommunication technologies, computer technology resources, electronics, telecommunications equipment, and programming.

62.In the interests of ensuring national security in the medium term, competitive economic sectors are being developed and markets for Russian products are being expanded, the effectiveness of the fuel-energy complex is being enhanced, instruments of public-private partnership are being used to resolve strategic challenges to economic development and to the completion of a basic transport, energy, information, and military infrastructure, especially in the Arctic zone, Eastern Siberia, and the Far East of the Russian Federation.

63.The strengthening of economic security will be supported by the improvement of state regulation of economic growth, by developing conceptual and programmatic documents of interregional and territorial planning, and creating a comprehensive system of risk control, including:

—introduction of an active state anti-inflation, currency, exchange rate, and monetary-credit and taxation-budgetary policy, aimed at import-substitution and supporting the real economy;

—stimulation and support for the development of a market for innovation, high-tech production, and high value-added production, and the development of promising general-, dual-, and special-purpose technologies.

64.At the regional level, the stable condition of national security is ensured by the balanced, comprehensive and systemic development of the subjects of the Russian Federation.

One of the main medium-term directions of national security at the regional level is the creation of mechanisms intended to reduce the level of interregional disparity in the socioeconomic development of the subjects of the Russian Federation, by means of balanced territorial development.

In the long term, threats to national security related to the disproportionate levels of development of the Russian regions are prevented by launching a full-scale national innovation system, by creating territorial-industrial areas in the southern regions and Middle Volga, in the Ural region and in Siberia, in the Far East, and in other regions of the Russian Federation.