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The author discusses the issues of implementation of target management approaches to the long-term development of regions of the Russian Federation. The success of apply-ing such approaches to planning and management at the regional level depends on a choice of priorities and ratio between and sequence of development of programs and pro-jects in the planning process, the quality of the techniques applied, and a financial support of the planned results. The article shows that a project approach is of priority for the development of Russian regional policy. Regional programs are a set of basic projects that are not always aimed at developing territories and domestic markets. Our analysis of the strategic documents of the Russian Government shows that most of Siberian regions are not considered as strategically important ones for the country. These facts together with the ongoing centralization of financial resources at the level of the Federal center are key obstacles in implementing development programs for Siberia and units of the Russian Federation's located in Siberia as well as those for the Russian Far East.

The article discusses the reasons and motivations behind the demand for consulting services. Particular attention is paid to the motivation of managers of enterprises, organizations and government agencies who resort to the services of external consultants when they have a large number of their own specialists and advisors. On the basis of the analysis of scientific literature and our own modest experience we draw conclusions that economic consulting is associated with a number of threats and risks both for the consulted organization and for the consultant himself. For enterprises of organizations and state structures the main threat is that, following standard models and schemes, one can miss specific features of the external environment and internal organization of the object. In addition, recommendations may be implemented incompletely, formally or partially, which may lead to undesirable results. For a consultant, the main threats are conflicts of interest and allegations of corruption and insider trading of information. Innovative solutions are the most effective, but at the same time the most risk. Choosing the right consultant and ensuring their competence and independence is a particular challenge. Therefore, the relationship between the consultant and the client is no less important than the tools and technology of his work in the process of making recommendations. Consulting of state structures has a number of peculiarities, the main of which are the hierarchical nature of construction, latent doctrines of departments, motivation of managers and planning horizon of the manager. Economic counseling allows the researcher to get a unique experience that can be used in further work.

This article is devoted to a review of G.I. Khanin's new book, which presents the author's assessment of the course and results of the first five-year plan. The article is not a summary of this book, but an attempt to re-think the process of implementing the principles of planning and directive management of the economy and social sphere in Soviet Russia. G.I. Khanin's book presents and substantiates alternative assessments of the economic development of the country and it shows that the annual plans were not implemented and control figures of the five-year plan as a whole were not achieved contrary to the claims of the states' leadership. The book concludes that industrialization has a high cost. This review paper explains the high relevance of this book, since the ideas of transition to a mobilization economy and the recreation of a centralized planning system in one form or another to accelerate economic growth and, more broadly, to modernize the economy and society have become widespread in current scientific literature and journalism. Based on the content of the book under discussion, the author of this review paper examines the problem of the correlation between modernization and economic growth. He shows that during the years of the first five-year plan, against a background of significant economic growth and serious efforts to expand education and the network of scientific institutions, the processes of archaization of the society took place as well as new mechanisms of social stratification were formed. The discussed monograph draws an important conclusion that domestic statistics during the first five-year plan falsified not only monetary, but also natural indicators. The book shows that the so-called ten-year plans resulted in the disorganization of economic life, disproportions and, according to G.I. Khanin, the transition from economic fantasy to "bacchanal planning". The author of the review paper also shows that the historical and economic study of the USSR is far from being completed, and he concludes that quantitative estimates and especially qualitative conclusions need to be adjusted as new information sources are discovered and involved in the scientific turnover, as well as the previously obtained data should be compared and reconsidered.