New Approaches to the Economic Security of Russian Regions in Terms of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The study aims to identify the problems of economic security of the Russian regions under the influence of force majeure caused by the pandemic COVID-19 and their assessment, as well as to determine ways to stabilize the socio-economic situation. The authors conducted a grouping of the economic security indicators of the federal districts and proposed a methodology for its assessment in terms of the coronavirus pandemic. The authors identified the problem areas of socio-economic development of the Russian regions and also proved the decline in their economic security during the pandemic. The authors evaluated the effectiveness of the internal state administration of the federal districts according to the anti-crisis measures adopted in 2020 (maintaining turnover in the main regional segments of the economy, avoiding tax debt on regional fees, increasing the profitability of the real business, raising the level of digital development), as well as measures to preserve employment and solvency of the population of each region. The authors justified the directions of normalization of the socio-economic development of the federal districts of Russia by eliminating the economic security problems. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Comparative Analysis of the Economic Security of the Regions and the Methodology of Its Implementation

The research aims at developing a methodological approach to conducting a comparative analysis of the economic security of the Russian regions in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors substantiate the scientific hypothesis that during a pandemic it is necessary to take into account all groups of indicators, including relative indicators characterizing the sanitary and epidemiological component of regional economic security, which will contribute to increasing the reliability of the results of a comparative analysis of the economic security of regions. In the article, the authors systematize the existing methodological approaches to conducting a comparative analysis of the economic security of regions and also identify their disadvantages. The authors develop their methodology for conducting a comparative analysis of the economic security of regions, adapted to the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. The use of a wide range of research tools (methods of mathematical analysis, comparison, grouping, expert evaluation method) allowed the authors to substantiate the practical significance of the proposed methodology, as well as to evaluate and compare the economic security of several regions of Russia (Rostov, Belgorod Regions and Krasnodar Territory). © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.