National projects 2019-2024: “Comprehensive plan for the modernization and expansion of main infrastructure” and “Ecology”: selected implementation results, challenges, and institutional aspects
- Authors: Kulikovskaya G.A.1, Gukasyan G.L.1,2, Minasyan G.S.1
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Affiliations:
- RUDN University
- Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 12, No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 164-188
- Section: CURRENT PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2312-8313/article/view/317840
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-8313-2025-12-2-164-188
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/PEEVSB
- ID: 317840
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Abstract
This study explores the interrelation between the implementation of two key national projects of the Russian Federation - the Comprehensive Plan for the Modernization and Expansion of Main Infrastructure (CPMI) and the Ecology project. It identifies the specific institutional and legal mechanisms that either facilitate or hinder their coordinated implementation. Particular attention is paid to both the role of these large-scale projects in the country’s economic development and the contradictions that arise during the accelerated realization of infrastructure initiatives under weakened environmental control requirements. These contradictions manifest in reduced procedural transparency, increased violations of environmental legislation, and the degradation of specially protected natural areas. The study provides concrete examples of negative impacts, as well as positive cases that demonstrate the potential for synergy - from the modernization of transport and industrial facilities to the restoration of disturbed ecosystems. It offers a set of recommendations for institutional and regulatory measures aimed at achieving a balance between economic development and environmental safety: reinstating the mandatory state environmental review (SER), introducing strategic environmental assessment (SEA), digitalizing procedures, developing damage compensation mechanisms, and preventing changes to the boundaries of protected areas without public consent. Thus, the integration of the goals of the CPMI and Ecology projects into future national and federal initiatives in this domain may serve as a foundation for sustainable territorial development, provided that environmental priorities are upheld and effective stakeholder engagement is ensured.
About the authors
Galina A. Kulikovskaya
RUDN University
Email: kulikovskaya-ga@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2351-1711
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public and Municipal Administration
6 Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, 117198, Russian FederationGurgen L. Gukasyan
RUDN University; Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: gukasyan_gl@pfur.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5930-6870
SPIN-code: 6071-7519
Scopus Author ID: 57191675471
ResearcherId: A-9072-2017
Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Public and Municipal Administration, RUDN University; Leading Researcher, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
6 Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation; 12 Rozhdestvenka st., Moscow, 107031, Russian FederationGarush S. Minasyan
RUDN University
Author for correspondence.
Email: minasyan-gs@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0006-3935-8693
SPIN-code: 3619-2102
Candidate of Political Sciences, Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Public and Municipal Administration
6 Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, 117198, Russian FederationReferences
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