Scientific Journal of KubSAU

Trade relations are one of the key areas of cooperation between Russia and the European Union countries. However, prospects of trade and economic cooperation development between the countries in conditions of geopolitical instability have been insufficiently studied, which explains the relevance of the research topic. In this work, there are analyzed changes in the structure of exports and imports of the Russian Federation and the EU within the period 2009-2014, revealed Russia's dependence on supplies of food and high-tech equipment, which are included in the sanctions list. There was substantiated the expediency of the accelerated modernization of domestic material base, active development of innovative environment and creation of conditions for enhancing public-private partnership in the investment sphere. Calculation of the economic and financial losses of the Russian Federation and the EU because of the sanctions regime and food embargo showed significant dependence of the economies of each other. The analysis of the development tendencies in trade relations between Russia and the EU has identified the main challenges in the development of foreign trade between countries: restriction of opportunities to attract foreign investment; curbing exports; devaluation of the national currency and increasing inflation. The main proposals that can strengthen trade relations between the EU and Russia are highlighted: the abolition of the bilateral restrictions; development of a new juridical framework; establishment within the Federal Assembly ad hoc committees on the regulation of relations with the EU in order to specify the main goals and objectives of the strategic partnership, creation of conditions for their implementation; speeding up the adjustment of the Russian legislation to international standards in the framework of Russia's membership in WTO

We have described the basic models of state tourism management in the article on the example of the countries of the world with the highest number of arrivals. We have also analyzed international experience in the management and development of tourism and considered a place of Russia in the global tourism industry

There was substantiated the economic reasonability of intraeconomic combined food production effectiveness with the use of extruding method allowing to decrease specific costs and to increase the production profitability of livestock produce

The article considers main conditions that favour Russian regional airports integration into the international system. The key feature of the modern airport development in Russia is the fact that passenger traffic is concentrated in several large air hubs. Consequently, country transit potential can not be used in full. Thus, the article presents the analysis of the Russian hub-and-spoke system formation based on the criteria accepted in the international practice

The article is devoted to the contemporary development of the tourism industry in the Krasnodar region in the post-Olympic period. We have considered main directions of improving the attractiveness of tourism sector for foreign tourists. There were found the advantages of the touristrecreational base of the Krasnodar region, providing its tourist potential. Sanatorium, resort and tourist complex of the Krasnodar region line with the priorities of social-economic development of Russia and determines the special status of the region in the economy of the country. We have analyzed the dynamics of entry of foreign nationals for the purpose of tourism. There were identified the country with the highest tourist arrivals. We have studied the regulatory-legal framework, regulating tourist activity in the region and considered one of the ways of state regulation of the tourism industry by conducting classification of hotels and other accommodation facilities. The main economic effect from the introduction of a system of classification of hotels is to improve the quality of service, competitiveness and legalization of small accommodation facilities. It emphasizes the uniqueness of Sochi city as a key tourist destination for international tourism promotion not only in the region but also in the country. It presents an overview of the modern state and use of the sports of the Olympic Games, the infrastructure of Sochi, identified tools for promoting inbound tourism. Despite the positive results achieved in the development of the tourism industry in the Krasnodar region, it is necessary to solve a number of tasks to increase the attractiveness of tourism in the region. Thus, the priorities should include: creation of a competitive tourism product, leveling the seasonality factor and provide year-round operation of sports facilities and other infrastructure of Sochi in the postOlympic period

The article defines the targets to improve the management of agribusiness development in the region face of the deteriorating financial and economic crisis: the growth of competitiveness of domestic agricultural products on the basis of the modernization of technical and technological base of agriculture, introduction of innovative technologies of agricultural production and the creation of conditions for the development of an innovative environment; raising incomes and productivity growth. As controls, the development of regional agriculture has justified following priorities focused on its effective functioning: Rural development as a fundamental condition for qualitative growth agricultural industries, including its innovative and resource potential; implementation of an innovative model of development of regional agriculture based on high-tech technologies of agricultural production; development of adapted institutional environment; scientific and staffing, as an essential condition for activation of innovation processes in the regional agro-industrial complex; innovation and innovative development of agribusiness; modernization of its technical and technological base; greening and biologization agricultural production; adjustment of the development strategy of agribusiness in the region due to aggravated the global financial and economic crisis and the need to promptly provide import substitution due to increased volumes of agricultural production and achieve competitive parameters produced by the domestic agricultural products

The article substantiates the necessity of the intensifying institutional reforms in AIC of the Krasnodar region for the purpose of development the regional innovation environment. It is proved, that the efficiency of innovative activities is possible in the agrarian sector of the economy in effective state regulation of organizational and economic mechanisms of innovation processes, to generate adapted innovative infrastructure. The Institutional modernization supposes accretion of the relationships government and business against to the development of investment processes, improved management efficiency and its activities creation for innovation infrastructure in agriculture. The analysis conducted has shown that the favorable investment climate is achieved in the Krasnodar region by maintaining political stability and predictability, and also the implementation of a policy directed to the transformation of market relations, directed the creation and implementation of mechanisms import substitution and development of rural areas actively. The institutional environment should be considered as a basic component of innovative development of agrarian sector economy in the region. The institutional environment grouping of innovative development AIC subjects to the influence of socioeconomic, political, institutional, demographic, historical and geographical factors. The process of innovative development agrarian sector does not come short of potential opportunities the region. Inter alia the main factors impeding of the development innovations in the regional AIC can be identified: the high production and financial risks, the low demand for innovative products and services, the high cost of innovations, the lack of personnel able to develop innovative production technologies, the own sources of funding for the projects have not been found. To enable of innovation activity in the regional AIC on the basis institutional reforms it is necessary: to maximize the interaction between federal, regional and local levels of government; be focused on the selection strategic priorities of agrarian sphere innovative development in the region; to create a set conditions for the technical and technological modernization of the sector, allowing to generate and develop innovations in agriculture; to amend the state innovation policy in the agrarian sector alone the need of implementation mechanisms of import substitution, the rural development and the achievement of competitiveness agricultural production

The article has revealed an interconnection between the volume of agricultural production and its efficiency in general, as well as between the volume and efficiency of milk production in particular. The authors have also marked reasons of agricultural integration both abroad and in Russia, highlighted the main factors that influence integration processes in diary subcomplex and criteria of their effectiveness assessment. The authors have studied the influence of specialization and concentration level of milk on the economic efficiency of production and sale of raw milk; confirmed the existence of direct dependence between the level of production concentration and the volume of material incentives for operators of machine milking; fulfilled classification of integrated structures on the main criteria; they have made an economic-mathematical model of the influence of factors on the selling price of milk, based on regression analysis; justified the assertion of the distortion of the law of supply and demand in the conditions of monopolization of raw milk market, which is manifested in direct relationship between sales volumes and selling prices; found a statistically significant effect of milk quality on the price, the level of concentration of its production, dairy livestock industry specialization and volume of served livestock

We have analyzed the system of state regulation of regional food security and substantiated the main directions of its software under the sanctions regime, presented the scheme of the constituent elements of regional food security, including the purpose and the main task. We have revealed the features of the modern food problems of Russia and its regions, systematized the negative effects of international sanctions, assessed the obstacles to implementation of the accelerated import substitution policy. An analysis of exports and imports of basic foodstuffs in the Krasnodar region for 2011-2015 has been shown. We have also presented the dynamics of the average per capita consumption of food among the population of Russia and the Krasnodar region. The work substantiates the necessity to diversify trade relations and the search for potential investors for the implementation of pilot innovative projects in the real sector of the economy of the region. It substantiates the actual directions of optimization tools of state regulation of the food security of the Krasnodar region in the conditions of modern economic realities. It is proved that the effective implementation of the regional agricultural policy requires a development strategy for the agricultural sector, which expresses the priority of the state in relation to agriculture and includes the presence of a real agrarian protectionism

The article examines features of the functioning of the agro-industrial complex of Russia and the Krasnodar region in the economic crisis. It substantiates the urgency of adaptation of state regulation of agro-industrial complex mechanisms to modern economic realities, we have disclosed functions and principles for the development of regional policy strategy in the agricultural sector. It is proved, that the system of state regulation of regional agro-industrial complex should correlate with the priorities of the development of its main component - agriculture and to promote structural reforms in the agricultural sector, enhance its innovation and investment potential and maintain the social orientation of the agrarian reforms. Improving the mechanisms of state support of the agro-industrial complex of Russia and the Krasnodar region requires a special approach in relation to the country's membership in the World Trade Organization. Due to this, we have proposed the adjustment of state support instruments of domestic agro-industrial complex, which involves the use of priority measures of the "green box", including an increase in funding for research in agriculture, development of an effective institutional environment, which will stimulate the efficiency and competitiveness of the agricultural sector