Abstract: Today the world is being changed rapidly. The world economy and consumer culture of the population are changed. Informatization and high technologies exert increasingly more effect on all life spheres. The time of transition to the adaptive economy and dynamic management in all sectors of our life has come. During the last few years significant results were achieved. In the conditions of the increased competition for the sales markets, investments and intellectual capital, it is necessary to specify the strategic view of the further development and the priority trends thereof. At that it is important to ensure the continuity in the economic and social policies. The ultimate objective of such strategy is formation of the economy that is adequate to 21st century and integrated into the world economic system. Performance of the social-economic transformations in the country resulted in the enhanced participation of the regions in all sphere of the society life. The regions became the entities that may independently take political, economic, social, cultural and other decisions. Improvement of the mechanisms of regional development and forecasting becomes one of the most topical issues in the area of improvement of the general quality of the national economy management. The Russian regions feature significant potential for development that under certain conditions may become the additional source of growth of the national economy. Along with that in the longer term the existing interregional imbalances may appear to be the substantial restrictor of growth of the Russian economy. In this regard, the government policy concerning the regions shall not be reduced to establishment of inter-budget relations and implementation of separate investment projects. In the modern conditions, the development of the single regional policy aimed at achieving the key goals set before Russia in the longer term shall become an integral part of the country development strategy.