UNCLASSIFIED -- reducing informal employment, legalizing labor relations, and increasing investments in the development of human capital; -- ensuring the balance of the interests of the indigenous population and migrant workers, including foreign citizens, with due account being taken of their ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and religious differences, improving immigration records, and ensuring the justified territorial distribution of migrant workers on the basis of the regions' requirements for labor resources; -- developing international business contacts, attracting foreign investments and technologies, implementing joint projects, widening markets for the sale of Russian products, and countering attempts by foreign states to regulate world markets on the basis of their political and economic interests. 63. The strengthening of economic security is promoted by improving state management on the basis of the strategic planning documents of the Russian Federation, the components of the Russian Federation, and the macro-regions. 64. The stable condition of national security at the regional level is ensured through the balanced, comprehensive, and systemic development of the components of the Russian Federation and the widening and strengthening of economic links among them. 65. One of the main avenues in ensuring national security at the regional level (in the medium term) is the creation of a mechanism for reducing the level of interregional differentiation in the socioeconomic development of components of the Russian Federation through the balanced territorial development of the country, the elimination of infrastructure restrictions, the introduction of a mechanism for coordinating the placing of transportation, engineering, and social infrastructures at all levels, the improvement of the system of strategic and territorial planning, the reciprocal coordination of sector and territorial development, and the improvement of the national system of settlement and the system of placing production forces in the territory of the Russian Federation. 66. In the long term it is expedient to eliminate threats to national security connected with disproportions in the development of the regions of Russia by stimulating the autonomous economic development of components of the Russian Federation and coproduction among them, increasing investment and entrepreneurial activeness, strengthening budget support, improving budgetary relationships, and expanding the number of centers of economic growth, including territories with preferential socioeconomic development. Science, Technologies, and Education 67. The strategic aims of ensuring national security in the spheres of science, technologies, and education are: -- the development of a system of scientific, planning, and scientific-technological organizations that will be capable of ensuring the modernization of the national economy, the realization of the UNCLASSIFIED