New approaches to the development of strategies for sustainable and balanced development of regions and macro-regions, determining the effectiveness of the state regional policy of the Russian Federation

The article reveals the current problems of developing strategic documents – concepts and strategies for the development of regions, macro-regions, describes the authors' approaches to determining development targets, forming a criterion system for evaluating the implementation of strategies, gives scientific and methodological recommendations for the formation of macro-regions in the Russian Federation, suggests approaches to improving the system for evaluating the effectiveness of state regional policy. The results of the study can be used to develop strategic documents of a national, macro-regional and regional level.