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The article considers historical aspects of occurring the notion "import substitution" as well as positive and negative consequences of this policy impact on the national economy, as a whole. Besides, it analyzes the latest tendencies related to pursuing the policy of import substitution in agriculture of the Russian Federation. Herewith, it considers the interrelation between pursuing the policy of import substitution in agriculture and food safety of regions. The authors consider the essence of the notion "regional food safety", as well as risks and criteria related to ensuring food safety on the level of the region. When defining the basic goals of the import substitution policy to ensure food safety, the authors analyze the areas of improving the doctrine of food safety and other statutory documents used within the import substitution policy to ensure food safety of the country

Local wisdom had been adopted by business practices in an area or region aside from modern marketing theory which is used by marketers to enhance market share and increase profitability. Local wisdom is becoming increasingly common in business practices in global markets including the Indonesian market. The aim of this paper is to examine the important elements of local wisdom and its relation to marketing performance mediated by product, price, promotion and place. Quantitative analysis employed with data collected from two hundred and fifty Indonesian businessmen engaged in the textile and garments industries have been used in this study. Multidimensional scaling is used to explore the data for mapping or search for an object in the configuration of a number of low dimensional space based on the size of the proximity between objects studied. The Structural Equation Modelling has been used to analyze the indicator variables, latent variables and measurement error variables, to identify the dimensions and to measure the effect or the degree of relationship between factors that have been identified through related dimensions. The influence of one variable with other variables proved to be positive and significant, that is the local wisdom variables have a positive effect on the product and on the price. The study shows that local wisdom has no significant influence on the marketing performance, while other variables have significant influence to one another.

This paper examines a methodology for the analysis of the uneven development of specific areas within a region in terms of their social-economic development and economic potential, as well as existing constraints to exploiting this potential. The authors summarize the most critical issues in the social-economic development of municipal units within the Russian Federation and find one of the main causes of those to be the insufficient consideration of the characteristics of specific areas in implementing policy for the development of municipal units. The paper brings forward a system of indicators for assessing the unevenness of the socialeconomic development of regional municipal units that is designed to generate a comprehensive characterization of the object under study by way of stage-by-stage examination of its components. To investigate differentiation among municipal units in level of social-economic development, the authors employ a method developed by researcher S.A. Aivazyan. Thus, the study's major approach is grounded in calculating an integral criterion for the population's quality of life.