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Аннотация:The Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation, adopted in 2010, proposed a target of reaching food self-sufficiency by 2022. That concept of food security, unusual among developed countries, is driven by a political vision of the national origin of food and motivated by historical trauma. Our analysis of climate and geography, historical food crises, and the current agricultural situation shows that the problem of food security in Russia is far more complex than is currently recognized. Even if the goal of self-sufficiency were met, Russia may not find itself food-secure, as it continues to import agricultural equipment and seed stock. And, given a history of regional food separatism, self-sufficiency may prove to be a risky strategy. If Russia’s regions follow suit and aim for local self-sufficiency, they will threaten Russia’s already weakly integrated markets. An alternate goal for Russian Food Security is the achievement of full integration of the economic space, as that provides price equilibrium in various regions in a year of crop failure. Projected on the regional level, such a doctrine will work (as it once worked in the late years of Tsarist Russia) towards maximal openness of the regions and the lowering of the influence of non-economic (criminal, administrative, infrastructure deficiency, etc.) factors in production and trade of food.