Modern national economies are multilevel with many sectors, sub-sectors, sectors interconnected and competing. But the main thing in this kind of a pie is the value chain, which is a kind of industrial-economic-logistic communications, through which national economies interact both within themselves and without. But value chains have different lengths, and therefore bring different results. Until now, the discussion has been going on about what forms value chains, what is their nature, what mechanisms, and most importantly, is it possible to arbitrarily form value chains of any length and configuration? Practice shows that, firstly, even the most advanced national economies are not always able to form value chains of the desired length and configuration, and secondly, even if they somehow turn out to be created, they often scatter without bringing the desired result. Therefore, it is important for theorists to recognize not only the nature and character of economic (including production, logistics, etc.) value chains formation (with an appropriate set of issues related to their structure, internal mechanism, configuration, etc.), but also why they fall apart without creating the synergistic effect intended. The article suggests that there is “The resource predestination” imposed on the formation of value chains of a given configuration, length and marketability. To achieve this goal, the article combines two independent areas of economic research: the formation of value chains and the “resource curse/predestination”.

The term “new reality” entered the lexicon of economists in the last decade. It means fundamental changes in the economy, which are predominantly economic in nature, also expanded in engineering and technology, sociology, politics and psychology. In 2020, the “new reality” supplemented with Covid-19. It seems that the reason for its strong influence on the economy is that Covid-19 is becoming a kind of economic factor related not even with the development of pharmacology, epidemiology, etc., but with the fact that it touched one of the most dynamically developing spheres of the economy - services. Agriculture has also faced the “new reality” in a new century. But in contrast to the economy, its “new reality” is formed by qualitatively different factors: climate, weather, social polarization of societies, increased consumption and decrease of the matrix of basic factors of agricultural production. In this regard, a study of the prospects for national agriculture merits attention.

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To characterize the shifts in the spatial organization of a countrys economy, it is helpful to use observation of changes in the geographic center of the economy. In the article, using the centrographic method, the coordinates of the economic center of Russia were calculated. The assessment of its dynamic over the period from 2005 to 2015 has been carried out. The gradient of movement of the economic center of Russia has been defined. The connection of the economic center and other centers of the country has been studied. The quantification of shifts has been examined and their interpretation has been proposed. Assumptions about the influence of the shift (the northeast and southwest) of the economic center of Russia on the dynamics of GDP have been made.