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Russia's accession to the WTO is an efficient instrument of the country's integration into the globalized world economy. However, it can adversely affect a number of enterprises and industries within the national economy. Thus, there is a need to develop a methodology for the assessment of the preparedness for operating under WTO membership conditions, which can be practically applied in the development of measures aimed at increasing the competitiveness of economic entities. This determines the objective of the research. This article offers the author's assessment of the reasonability of Russia's accession to the WTO and suggests methodological approaches to the assessment of preparedness of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for functioning in the new economic conditions based on the algorithm of choosing a system of indicators, as well as the organisation of enterprise monitoring according to this system, which makes it possible to formulate rational administrative decisions in order to minimise the adverse effects of Russia's accession to the WTO. The major result of the research is the conclusion that, although the objective of identifying the start position of the constituent entities before the accession to the WTO and its possible implications is quite difficult to attain, it is both theoretically and practically feasible

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The article analyzes the dynamics of the development of foreign trade and development of the Ural border regions as an important component and effective tool for deepening cross-border economic integration in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). In the work under the concept of "cross-border region", the authors mean Russian regions (constituent entities of the Russian Federation) that have interregional ties with administrative and territorial entities of foreign countries, some of which may not be territorially interconnected, and border regions are having land and other borders with contiguous foreign countries. The study is based on the scientific substantiation of the author's hypothesis that the border regions are the driving force in the development of cross-border cooperation, since, unlike all cross-border regions, they have real opportunities and significant specific features in the development of interregional economic integration, which predetermined the topic of the article and determines its relevance.

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