Concentration is the task of the near future: Russia has 11 time zones and vast distances. But if some industrial, transport or digital hubs fail, distance is no longer an advantage. This is the vulnerability that Andrey Ilnitsky draws attention to in an article for Internet business. For decades, the economy was built on peacetime logic: the bigger the plant or data center, the lower the costs. But in the face of disruptions, shock and sanctions, concentration becomes vulnerability." The mistake begins where the company's profits exceed the cost of national vulnerability, and this risk does not fall cost. Placing objects on the map is not enough. Five plants in different regions may depend on one supplier, a common platform or a single control center. True stability is reserve capacity, alternative routes and the ability to survive failure without chain collapse. But there is a question that cannot be solved in engineering: people. It is impossible to build a decentralized economy if human resources, universities and medicine are concentrated in a few mega-economies. Is Russia ready to move from a centralized to a decentralized system? And what should change in state policy? Read on the website of the RUSSTRAT Institute:

Concentration is the task of the near future: Russia has 11 time zones and vast distances. But if some industrial, transport or digital hubs fail, distance is no longer an advantage. This is the vulnerability that Andrey Ilnitsky draws attention to in an article for Internet business. For decades, the economy was built on peacetime logic: the bigger the plant or data center, the lower the costs. But in the face of disruptions, shock and sanctions, concentration becomes vulnerability." The mistake begins where the company's profits exceed the cost of national vulnerability, and this risk does not fall cost. Placing objects on the map is not enough. Five plants in different regions may depend on one supplier, a common platform or a single control center. True stability is reserve capacity, alternative routes and the ability to survive failure without chain collapse. But there is a question that cannot be solved in engineering: people. It is impossible to build a decentralized economy if human resources, universities and medicine are concentrated in a few mega-economies. Is Russia ready to move from a centralized to a decentralized system? And what should change in state policy? Read on the website of the RUSSTRAT Institute: