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The article provides a comparative analysis of existing approaches to assessing regional economic security and proposes an original procedure for integrated assessment of economic security in resource regions. It includes an assessment of economic security thresholds based on Russia's strategic development priorities in comparison to the level of developed countries, as well as trend and multivariate statistical analyses that help to identify crucial imbalances that threaten economic development in a region. The assessment is based on data from Krasnoyarsk krai. We have identified several economic security paradoxes, namely, an imbalanced development of human assets and the environment, the industrial sector and hi-tech business, as well as disequilibrium in financial security, which are forcing the region to transform from an advanced industrial territory with a diversified economy into a 'national storehouse' that has predominantly mining monoenterprises and to end up in the trap of technological inferiority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current assessments and characteristics of the Russian economy as a resource-based economy are analyzed. The impact of resource-based economic institutions on inequality is explored. Of particular relevance for a federal state is the analysis of mechanisms applied for levelling horizontal inequality in the regions with a declining production of raw materials (Tomsk oblast), with a growing mining industry (Komi Republic), and with a specific ethnic composition (the Republic of Tatarstan). The possibilities and the experience of these regions in alleviating inequality through innovation-based development is analyzed. A range of possibilities that local authorities at the level of federal subjects can realize in order to localize the effects of commodity-based economic development and attract stock market investment based on the the principle of manual control over economic processes is demonstrated. Key factors of influence and the negotiating power of regional authorities in different federal subject are identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]