The article operationalizes the concept of international cooperation and discusses the features of participation in it of the regions of the Russian Federation. The author defines international cooperation as a process and result of mutual coordination of decisions and actions of participants, carried out on the basis of expected mutual benefits and coordination of interests. From these positions, the institutional capabilities of the regions of the Russian Federation, the legal and organizational foundations for international cooperation between the regions are considered. The author comes to the conclusion about the formation in Russia of a coordinated functional model of international cooperation between regions. The peculiarity of the model lies in its gravitation towards centralization, despite the legal and organizational possibilities of the regions of the Russian Federation to independently determine their foreign economic and international cultural ties. These opportunities are not used by the regions for a number of reasons, including not only the financial lack of independence of some regions, but also the lack of human resources, understanding the experience of foreign models of interregional cooperation, systematizing and comprehending the successful experience of a number of Russian regions. The article highlights the features of the European, American, Asian models of international cooperation between regions that are significant for Russia and provides examples of the use of some of the tools of these models in Russian practice.

Modern realities dictate new conditions, followed by new approaches to assessing economic development. In the article, the author describes such modern trends in the economy as: instability in the face of “shocks”, the absence of a direct relationship between GDP growth and welfare growth, regionalization and proposes to consider the IDI assessment method against their background as more appropriate in the course of developing a strategic course for Russian regions and spatial policy. The results of the research made it possible to determine the positions of the macro-regions of Russia (identified by the Strategy for Spatial Development of the Russian Federation until 2025) on the path “from growth to development”, namely, to a uniform and balanced development of the economic, social and environmental spheres. The Discussion and Results section presents the final rating of inclusive development, compiled on the basis of data from Rosstat and the Ministry of Finance of Russia from 2019. The author provides evidence of a significant dependence of the inclusiveness of Russia's macroregional development on GDP indicators.

The article provides comprehensive analysis of the current dynamics and prospects for the evolution of discussions on the reform of the UN Security Council, which are conducted within the framework of relevant Intergovernmental Negotiations at the headquarters of the United Nations. Particular attention is given to the prerequisites for launching the reform process, the approaches of key negotiating groups and permanent members of the Security Council, primarily Russia. The article aims to prove that the fundamental disagreements persisting among the proponents of various models of reforming the Security Council rule out prospects for significant progress in the negotiations in the foreseeable future. The probability of a rapid evolution of geopolitical landscape is assessed as low. Against this background, the author concludes that it would generally be reasonable for Russia to continue with the current negotiating tactics, which is based on the thesis that the reform of the Council should enjoy the widest possible support of the Member States, and the prerogatives of the current permanent members, including the veto right, are not subject to revision. At the same time, it is worth making adjustments to such tacticts given the determined attempts by some negotiating groups to achieve the expansion of the Security Council in both categories of membership and the growing dissatisfaction with the lack of progress in reform. In particular, the author points to the need to further strengthen cooperation between the Russian side and the like-minded delegations in order to, among other things, promote more actively the socalled "intermediate" reform model. In preparing the article, the author mainly used systematic and logical-intuitive approaches while relying on the methods of empirical, historical-descriptive, political-descriptive and institutional analysis.

The article presents a research of the effectiveness of the state policy of the Russian Federation for Russian compatriots living abroad, conducted on the regional level, in particular, by the Government of Moscow. Despite the need to activate all possible structures in this direction, the possibilities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation remain underused and measured by science. Today, Moscow is one of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which has enough resources to support and develop the Russianspeaking area abroad. The main objective of this article is to analyze expert opinions regarding the policy held by the Moscow Government in the sphere of support for Russian compatriots abroad. The empirical analysis carried out in this recearch includes data from an expert interview conducted in 2021 by experts from 14 countries (French Republic, Kingdom of Spain, Netherlands, Republic of Estonia, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Kingdom of Sweden, Federal Republic of Germany, Republic of Turkey, Republic of Kazakhstan, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Armenia). The panel of experts included the heads of the coordinating councils of organizations of Russian compatriots abroad, representatives of organizations of Russian compatriots, heads of educational organizations, including Russian schools abroad, heads of Russian youth public organizations from 14 countries near and far abroad. In conclusion, the author sums up the effectiveness of the activities carried out by the Moscow Government for the Russian-speaking diaspora. Studying the experience of the Moscow Government will make it possible to develop proposals for other entities on their participation in the implementation of policy towards Russian compatriots abroad.

Primakov's extensive public service experience as head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Prime Minister of Russia is accumulated in his theoretical and memoir works. These works provide valuable material for solving contemporary problems of the Russian Federation, including the interaction between the Center and the regions of Russia. The urgency of the problem is connected both with the intra-Russian inequality of subjects, and with the internal territorial problems of the countries of the post-Soviet space. As a result of the analysis of the historical and theoretical works of Primakov, the basic principles for solving the problems of the Center and the regions are singled out, which can be applied in the legislative and executive activities of the federal authorities.

The article deals with the tools for promoting Russian film industry to international film markets and analyzes the importance of the export potential of the Russian films for enhancing the role of Russia in the global cultural space and spreading national culture all over the world. The theoretical basis of the research is the concept of «soft power», the systemic and logical-intuitive approaches were mainly used with an emphasis on the methods of empirical analysis. The author pays special attention to the role of state participation in international cultural exchanges in the field of cinematography and highlights the key achievements of the Russian film industry in 2020 and 2021. The article contains the main tools for promoting Russian audiovisual content abroad, the most successful of these are projects Focus on Festivals, Key Buyers Event and Russian Film Festival, aimed at introducing foreign viewers and film companies to national cinema. The author identified the management problems of international cooperation in the field of cinematography, which hinder the development of the export potential of the industry. It is proposed to create a national film promotion institute and an information portal about the Russian film industry.