The current paper features some results of theoretical and methodical justification of selection process for priority national projects that would ensure the economic security of the Russian Federation and its regions. The role of economic security is reflected in the system of national security of the state, the interrelation between the priority national projects and the system of economic security of the Russian Federation in the context of the challenges and threats formulated in domestic standard acts of strategic character. It is shown that the current strategy of sustainable development of regions is formed and implemented through a prism of priority national projects, but optimum ensuring economic security at the regional level is impossible without a scientifically and methodically reasonable regulation from the state. To provide methodically reasonable selection criteria for priority national projects in certain regions from the perspective of economic security, the author proposes to use the cluster approach, which allows one to define development priorities in the region and the direction of its economic security ensuring. Some theoretical and monographic generalizations have made it possible to correct the region clustering potential assessment technique in the context of economic security. Approbation of the developed technique has shown a possibility of its application to assess the level of priority of national projects at the regional level.
economic security, priority national projects, region, cluster approach, potential, sustainable development
