The Director of the SBS Consulting practice of state consulting Aleksey Kalinin answered the Izvestia edition to the question whether it is possible to make the entire Far East a free economic zone.
Key theses:
"The transformation of the Far Eastern Federal District into a giant offshore may alienate these territories from the European part of the country," the economist fears. — Rather, it is necessary to consider the Far East as a testing ground for working out favorable economic regimes, economic regulation, state policy with the mandatory dissemination of proven effective measures to the whole of Russia. This actually requires the legislative formalization of the regimes of economic and regulatory experiments. Some new regime, different from today's SEZ, SEZ and other instruments."
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https://iz.ru/1573063/dmitrii-alekseev/kak-porto-franko-dfo-mozhet-stat-mezhdunarodnoi-territoriei-operezhaiushchego-razvitiia.