Abstract. In accordance with Structural change theory by Fischer-Clark and with the tendency to expand intangible services sector and manufacturing industries in the inter-sectoral structure of the regional economy, this paper presents authors' proposals to improve the method of structural and rank analysis in regional economic sustainability assessment. The classification of the regions on the basis of specific calculations which applies a differentiated approach to strategic planning and management methods makes it possible to increase the achievability of strategic objectives of regional development for the subjects of the Russian Federation with different types of economic structure.

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Introduction: Russian Public higher education system is dynamically changing due to gradual integration into the global educational market. The authors trace the adaptation of public higher educational institutions to modern conditions, study a real case of the Volgograd Institute of Management, branch of RANEPA specializing in public policy and business administration, its trends and issues in the internationalization process related to legal status of a branch of a public institution; suggest a series of measures to optimize its academic mobility trends. The purpose of the study is to determine the actual trends of the international activities of government funded organizations taking into account the current trends in the public reform of higher education in Russia and limitations arising from its legal status of a branch. Techniques: such methods as case study, system, comparative legal and logical analyses were applied. Results: it is proved that the success of internationalization process in Russian higher education in academic, research and consulting areas largely depends on the factors of regional level, legal status of public institutions, available resources as well as on branch network structure. Conclusions: it was found that in order to overcome limitations in the process of internationalization government-funded educational institutions with a status of a branch should focus on internal internalization id est on creation of interdisciplinary pilot educational programs with foreign partners within the framework of short-term and medium-term academic mobility on the basis of individual international academic trajectories and the creation of courses in English and the program "Russian as a Foreign Language".

The risks of non-fulfillment of the target indicators of the federal project "Export of Education", which are systemic in nature and are associated with the peculiarities of the socio-economic, cultural development of Russian regions and their conditions for implementing the internationalization of higher education, have undergone a transformation during 2020-2021 in the context of a pandemic and active use of distance technologies and electronic educational resources. This placed the emphasis on the level of competitiveness and the development of these technologies in comparison with large international providers -foreign universities. The goal of this paper is to identify and substantiate internationalization features of Russian higher education at the regional level and to forecast further scenarios of development in the context of a long term impact on public policy in this area. The research revealed and systematized the features of the internationalization of higher education at the regional level with their division into positive, negative, and crisis features. Trends in the number and structure of foreign students studying in Russia were identified and analyzed. The calculation of the effective rating of foreign students by importing countries was carried out. The authors developed and tested a six-factor function for assessing the level of internationalization of the university. The paper presents a model of interaction between regional universities and universities participating in the implementation of the Federal project "Export of Education".

UDC 330.341.2 N. E. Buletova a) , I. V. Gorelova a) , A. V. Golomanchuk a) , E. R. Orlova b) a) Volgograd branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration b) Institute for System Analysis of the RAS