V. Zolotov, PhD Student at the Moscow Institute of Economics, Management and Law

The article is devoted to the problems of free economic areas in Russia. The world financial crisis force economists to find new effective methods to force the business sector development. The idea to found free economic areas as a special restricted territory to form points of growth due to preferential duties is very actual. The objectives of creating free economic areas is quit different and depend on economic, social and sometimes political conditions shaped on a national level. This article deals with the principles of organisation of free economic areas in the current circumstances. The main problem for the free economic areas efficiency in Russia is the difference occurs between planning and real objectives on regional and overall national level. The development of free economic areas, as the paper shows, is currently an effective tool for regional economic policy development, the catalyst of positive economic processes.