THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST IN A POST COLD WAR ENVIRONMENT AND NEW INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PLANS

Last 10 years of the so-called market reforms hit the Russian Far East (RFE) extremely hard. The crisis of the reforms manifested itself by negative conse-quences in all spheres of people’s life (economics, security, social standards, etc.). As a result of it, President Paten’s idea to establish more efficient state power system in Russia, as well as some other reforms proposed by him enjoyed strong support of the RFE’s population. That is why; in the first part of my article I will elaborate on how Yeltsin reforms influenced economics of the RFE, and why their consequences were mostly negative. Secondly, I will explore first initiatives proposed by the new Russian Presi-dent Vladimir Putting for the revival of the RFE, and then I will try to find out what role international economic cooperation projects may play to complement these new plans. Contemporary Socioeconomic Situation You may well know that for a long historic period (from 1930s till 1990s); one of the purposes of the centrally planned economy of Russia was to build u