This paper examines some of the key issues related to ensuring Russia's food security. The focus on meeting people's needs by providing them with food produced domestically predetermines the objective need to develop further the nation's food market and create additional jobs, which should help improve people's standard of living and quality of life. The food market in a megalopolis is one of the largest in the country, which predetermines the complexity of its formation, with some of the key problem areas including the social and economic imbalance between low-and high-income citizens, issues with the development of trade infrastructure, the excessive number of intermediaries, etc.

The article deals with the formation of a single innovation space in the agrarian sector of the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union with the aim of rational use of their total scientific potential. The approaches to the formation of a common innovative space of the EU countries are considered. A distinctive feature of the modern stage of development of the innovation space in the agro-industrial sector of the Eurasian Economic Union is the intensification of cross-border cooperation of the participating countries. Models of interstate cooperation in the scientific and technical sphere were developed and a "panel of indicators" for the development of the market for scientific and technical products was proposed. Practical recommendations are given on innovation transfer in the agrarian sector of the economy of the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union. The economic effect will be manifested in increasing the volume and competitiveness of agricultural products, increasing the yield of agricultural producers, increasing the volume of innovative products and their share in the global agri-food market.

The sector of organic agriculture is attractive for investment, and the organic food market demonstrates a dynamic growth. The article suggests methodological approaches to the analysis of demand trends on the organic food market based on the use of growth curves. The dynamics of changes in the consumption of organic products per capita is characterized by a sequential single passage of the stages of development (growth), the achievement of maximum indicators (saturation), recessions, and cessation of existence. As the main factors determining the rate of development and the potential consumption of organic food products per capita, the level of incomes and life of the population was considered. The potential consumption of organic food products per capita in different countries is grounded, taking into account these factors. Based on the analysis of the functions of the growth rates of the per capita demand for organic food products derived from the estimated demand growth curves, the stages of the life cycle of organic food products on the European markets were analyzed, and the exhaustion of the potential demand for organic products in all considered countries except Britain was identified. It is expected that the further expansion of organic food production in the European producer countries will be facilitated by the reorientation to new markets actively importing this product (China, Russia, Japan, and Singapore).

The subject-object area of the research is organizational relations based on public-private partnership (hereinafter - PPP) between its participants to create a cross-border cluster (Russia-Kazakhstan) for deep processing of grain. There were considered the present forms, models and mechanisms of PPP and the possibility of their implementation in the formation of a cluster. The characteristic features and distinctive features of relations between PPP participants that can be used in the preparation of normative acts regulating the system of relations between partners both in the Russian Federation and in the EEU member States are identified. The author substantiates the need to solve a number of fundamental issues on the formation of an international cluster based on PPP: effective PPP cannot be considered only as attracting investment, it is necessary to take into account the interests of all participants, especially business, for which stable "rules of the game" must be defined.

The purpose is to consider the main theoretical approaches to definition of social safety and estimate its conditions. The analysis of economic indicators of 2016-2017 has shown that with a growth of the key economic indicators, negative dynamics of the real located income of the population still remain. In the article, the importance of social and economic safety is emphasized. The two main conditions of economic safety provide the presence of the influential middle class and a ratio between the minimum and maximum income of the population. By means of Lorentz’s curve, the increase of stratification of the population on income is shown. The article concludes that that poverty is a threat of economic security, because it slows down economic growth. The authors also assess the influence of administrative impact on social and economic development of regions, finding a weak reliance.