OREANDA-NEWS After the outbreak of the military conflict in Ukraine, some experts saw a paradoxical distribution of business and industrial activities in the Russian market. With the so-called new economic geography, a decline in these indicators began to form in the largest cities and their increase in industrial regions, Alexander Auzan, Dean of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University (MSU), quotes RBC.

The increase in production volumes in industrial cities was largely due to the strengthening of the role of the military-industrial sector (MIC) in the Russian economy. Due to this, the salaries of citizens involved in production in key industries will also grow.
Such a situation generally meets the public's demand for justice, the expert believes, because in the post-Soviet period, a significant part of Russians did not receive proper economic support. Active development took place primarily in megacities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as in regions focused on mining.

Earlier it was reported about the government's plans to complete the restructuring of the Russian economy by 2030. By this time, the authorities intend to reorient it from exports to the domestic market. In seven years, the share of exports is expected to decrease to 22.6 percent. At the same time, the dominant industries will be manufacturing, the volume of which in the structure of the economy will grow to eight percent.