The article discusses the results of a study of the issues of maintaining highways of regional and intermunicipal importance in the northern regions of Russia. A special role in the article is given to the category of highways as land and ice winter roads. In the hard-to-reach areas of the Arctic and North of Russia, winter roads are the most important element of the transport system. The maintenance and service of winter roads are the responsibility of the regional authorities. The existing issue of insufficient budgetary support for the maintenance of winter roads is, inter alia, associated with the imperfection of the methodology for calculating target norms of budgetary appropriations. The article presents well-reasoned facts and substantiation of the need to update the norms of budgetary appropriations for the maintenance of winter roads, taking into account difficult territorial natural and climatic conditions of work and transport accessibility of goods delivery. Recommendations are given for changing the methodology for calculating monetary costs for the maintenance of winter roads of regional and intermunicipal importance when determining the amount of appropriations from the budget of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

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In conditions of market, the relations between local authorities and subsoil users are poorly developed. The problem of the reaction of diamond mining companies’ activities to the budgetary process of the resource region is investigated insufficiently. A high degree of production costs increase in the industry of the Arctic regions determines the possibility of industrial projects development only for highly liquid productions, one of which is the commercial mining of natural diamonds. The industrial potential of the diamond mining companies of the Arctic was assessed on the base of a set of quantitative indicators. Macroeconomic factors influencing the sale of diamond products on the world diamond market are highlighted. The proposed methodological approach to assessing the industrial potentials of the companies allows conducting a comparative analysis of their influence on social sphere. The sources of the initial data for the quantitative assessment are the annual reports of the companies, i.e. the time series of data based on the period from 2015 to 2016. As a result of the research, it was determined that the industrial potential of diamond mining companies makes a similar contribution to the social and economic development of Anabar, Bulun, Olenek and Zhigansk municipal districts of Yakutia. Analysis of production and financial capacity has shown that there are reserves for increasing the social and environmental costs.

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A digital economy enters the industry. The article represents the digital transformation features of economic system of the participants of the Russian raw and cut diamond market. Various levels of digital technologies readiness and implementation into industrial production of the diamond industry of the countries participating in the global market determine the relevance of studying the project entry barriers. The raw and cut diamond of Russia intends to participate in the project of the Tracr digital platform development based of the blockchain technology. The author has considered conditions, opportunities and difficulties the enterprises of raw and cut diamond business of Russia will face with, in case of participation in the Tracr project. The entrance barriers with respect to business digitalization are highlighted. The new threats and challenges are identified, which can limit the implementation of the Russian raw and cut diamond business digitalization.