Socio-economic Safety Ensuring of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)

Abstract

One of the key issues of the country current security problems is economic security of the regions. The category “security” is revealed as the property of the social security system from external and internal threats. The statistical assessment results of Russian region quality and living standards including resource regions were analyzed in the article. The sociological survey data shows that the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) is included in regions with a high level of social tension. The climatic and economic bases of the region's development instability are shown. Socio-economic and political threats types are the probable cause of social tension in the region are shown based on the regions social and economic development results analysis and their character disclosure. It is shown that the most informative indicators of the population living standard can be taken for comparative relative analysis, not GRP per capita, but the registered number of unemployment, the population proportion with cash incomes below the subsistence minimum, the gap between the incomes of 10% of the most profitable groups of the population and 10% of the lowest income, unemployment rate, purchasing power coefficient. These life quality indicators in the republic are lower than the average values of the above indicators for the Russian Federation and the Far Eastern Federal District. It is concluded that the main factors hindering the region development are the lack of transport infrastructure and the high cost of energy supply determining the unequal economy competitiveness which are in federal responsibility and competence. The main concept of economic security problem solving in the region is to make conditions for equal competing opportunities.