The article deals with issues of the efficiency of functioning and development of economic systems of various levels (national, regional, municipal, sectoral, etc.) and notes their dependence on the intensity and sustainability of the consumer choice. In general, the solvent consumer demand creates conditions for generating revenue and profits for business entities of various profiles and, as a result, for maximizing their market value, implementing corporate social programs, full and timely deduction of taxes and other obligatory payments to budgets of various levels. The paper clarifies a mechanism of the consumer choice, explores the structure of the consumer choice of individuals in the world economy. It is concluded that when studying trends and problems in the development of the consumer choice, it is advisable to use a synthesis of theoretical and methodological provisions and methodological tools of certain areas of the neoclassical economic theory, economics of neoinstitutionalism, as well as a number of provisions of postneoclassical synthesis, primarily the marketing theory. 

The current situation in the world demonstrates a need to find new ways to ensure the security of countries with developing small economies, like the Republic of Tajikistan. In view of the limited resources of such countries, an obvious option for maintaining the stability and ensuring further development is active participation in integration processes. In this regard, the author aims to determine the need for integration for Tajikistan and its possible prospects. The author touches upon a problem of ensuring the national economic security through ensuring the economic security within the integration, and also explores possibilities of Tajikistan's participation in the Eurasian integration. The article is based on the application of the method of criteria-based assessment of the level of the economic security and on the use of dirigisme concept approaches to the development of integration processes. The author concludes that the integration of Tajikistan with the economies of the Eurasian countries has actually taken place, that there is a need for their further integration to eliminate existing threats to the economic security, and that it is necessary to pursue a targeted foreign policy based on the active position of the republic in order to eliminate internal and external obstacles for integration. The author proposes to use the integration model “from simple to complex”, based on the development of a system for the implementation of joint mini-projects, which allows to identify the commonality of interests and prospects of individual areas of cooperation at the lowest resource and time costs. The study can serve as a basis for further theoretical and practical work in the field of ensuring the economic security on a collective basis and promoting integration processes in Central Asia. The results make it possible to adjust the foreign policy of Tajikistan to ensure the economic security of the country through the integration. 

Today, digitalization is becoming one of the key trends in the development of various industries and areas of activity, including the tourism industry, where the use of digital technologies has changed algorithms for the provision of tourism services and the business models of tourism organizations, consumer behavior, influencing the entire paradigm of the tourism business. In the article, the authors identified a pool of digital technologies applied by tourism industry organizations, including the Penza region, and developed proposals for a roadmap for tourism development in the Penza region regarding achieving the goal of the digital transformation of tourism. Developing a tourism policy towards achieving the goal of the digital transformation of the tourism industry will help the Penza region build a customer-oriented strategy, increase its competitiveness in the online tourism market, create additional tourist flows of online travelers and contribute to the economic growth. 

At the regional level, issues of rational subsoil use are closely related to the problems of territorial planning and management. Currently, a number of mineral resources already require reassessment, taking into account changed economic conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to use as part of economic monitoring indicators both known quantitative indicators related to the volume of reserves and the cost of their extraction in specific and absolute terms, and qualitative indicators related to the possibility of developing subsurface areas, in relation to a certain territory, taking into account its development, the state of the mining industry, infrastructure security, etc. Within the framework of this work, we have set a task of determining and selecting economic monitoring indicators for purposes of territorial planning of geological exploration at the regional level. To solve it, it is necessary to build ontological models for each of the taxonomic objects (geological object, mining object, mining object). For each of the taxa, it is necessary to determine indicators of a clear and fuzzy assessment and a relationship between them. Then it is necessary to bring all the estimates to a single digital system. To bring it, you will need to use the mathematical apparatus of fuzzy logic. Based on the totality of the obtained digital estimates, it becomes possible to determine an integral indicator for each taxonomic unit in order to prioritize its development. 

In conditions of the economic instability of markets and external sanctions, it is of great importance to find ways to harmonize the stability of the economy in order to reduce its dependence on global processes. This problem gives rise to urgent tasks of researching measures to support domestic producers in the context of the import substitution, as well as finding ways to increase and localize production. Interestingly, the history of the development of industrial protectionism has its roots in the school of mercantilism and its function highlights the protection of the national economy from global competition. As a rule, when conducting a policy of protectionism, customs tariff and non-tariff restrictions are singled out. Among the options for nontariff restrictions, one can note the way to support domestic industrial goods through the provision of preferences. The article examines the peculiarity of the influence of industrial protectionism on procurement (using the example of budgetary institutions of the sports industry). The study was conducted on the basis of reports of budget purchases of customer organizations for 2021-2022, published in open sources. 

The article presents a study of the current state and an assessment of prospects for crossborder cooperation based on the results of the statistical data analysis and a survey of the West Kazakhstan region residents. The source of information was social networks, which determined a significant proportion of young people among the respondents. The authors have identified a trend of weakening mutual ties between the population. The prospects relate to the development of humanitarian ties (cultural, sports), as well as overcoming existing problems, such as reducing the time of crossing the border, improving the border infrastructure, solving the issue of international payments.

The article considers an approach to digitalization of forecasting processes and strategic planning of regional development based on the creation of digital tools that allow regional analysts to effectively solve practical problems of forecasting and strategizing. The main components of this toolkit are: a digital model of a region (a subject of the Russian Federation) describing the socio-economic activity of the region with necessary details, and a universal solver that allows solving direct and inverse problems of large dimension on the model of the region in an acceptable time. The experience of using methods and digital tools of forecasting and strategic planning developed at the Samara State University of Economics in the regional practice is discussed. 

The article examines the issue of the development of the regional higher education system based on the use of marketing technologies that directly or indirectly affect the competitiveness of a regional university. The versatile view of domestic scientists in the aspect of deepening marketing technologies in the educational activities of the regional university is taken into account. The modern aspects of the influence of marketing technologies on increasing the competitiveness of the regional education system are highlighted. The practical side of the issue is summarized on the basis of the results of online monitoring of the regional practice of using marketing technologies in the activities of regional universities, the participants of which were teachers of the Rostov State University of Economics (RSUE) and Don State Technical University (DSTU). The results were collectively discussed and summarized in the format of an interdepartmental online conference. At the conclusion of the study, a model of marketing technologies is presented, which is adapted to the specifics of educational activities of the Rostov State University of Economics, including for the educational system of the region. The author's model as a vector of development of marketing technologies of a regional university does not require additional costs of any resources and can be applied in the educational process of differently segmented regional universities. 

The article substantiates a historical component of the term "supra-professional competencies" and its various classifications within the framework of modern organizations that evaluate and conduct research on the relationship between manifestations of various kinds of competencies and the career component. The statistical analysis of the list of the most demanded competencies is given, as well as the advantages of universal competencies in building an individual trajectory of development of a participant in the labor activity are revealed. The authors, based on a number of studies by leading scientific institutions (Moscow State Research Center "Skolkovo", the project "Competence Centers" of the platform "Russia – the land of opportunities"), as well as the results of the assessment of universal competencies of students of Sevastopol State University, have proposed a justification that it is necessary to develop supra-professional competencies in the process of direct interaction of employer companies with educational institutions. 

The relevance of the article topic is due to the following: in the conditions of an unstable foreign policy and economic situation caused by the unprecedented sanctions of the West in relation to Russia, a serious threat to the Russian economy creates a current state in which the system of inter -budget relations in the country instead of an effective stimulating development mechanism in the prevalence of the alignment mechanism has turned into a real brake of the economic development of territories. The purpose of the study is on the basis of official data to analyze the role and place of the tax - budget mechanism existing in the country, the influence of sanctions introduced by the West on the formation of budgets. The research methods include analysis and synthesis, grouping, comparison, dynamics, logical, tabular, etc. The study revealed that the Russian tax policy does not ensure the economic growth of regions and municipalities, but it is aimed at reducing “ends meet”, covering the deficiency of their budgets. Negative manifestations of Western sanctions are expressed in a decrease in the investment attractiveness of the regions, the country, the growth of inflation, the absence of access to advanced technologies, violation of foreign economic relations, a decrease in purchasing power and the standard of living of the population, etc. In these conditions, it is necessary to make fundamental changes to the tax - budget mechanism, conducting deep analysis and the search for effective measures to reform the system of inter - budget relations.