State Planning and Budgeting in the Russian Federation

Abstract

Great social changes in the world require modernization of the idea of the state — a state that can have core targets and, at the same time, can be flexible enough. The modern state has to become strategic and enabling in order to divert the future risks. Opposite to short-term decisionmaking and responding to immediate challenges, the main purpose of strategic state gives to citizens an understanding of where it is heading. As in many other countries around the world, Russia promoted the idea of modern strategic state. Authorities admitted that it is necessary to set strategic goals and concentrate resources on those goals by means of strategic planning.