ИСТИНА

Competitiveness of the Russian Federation seems to be extremely insufficient for successful competition in the context of globalization. However, according to the existing classification, Russia is on the “lower” path to achieving competitiveness. The results of the study prove that the main reason for Russia's low competitiveness is the resource - intensive rather than knowledge - intensive nature of its economy - in the world trade and economic processes it is assigned a raw material "niche". At the same time, Russia has certain competitive advantages and resources, the effective use of which could provide the necessary level of competitiveness in a tough global competitive environment and would allow moving to the "upper" path of development