UNCLASSIFIED 59. In order to ensure economic security the main efforts are geared toward the elimination of imbalances in the economy, territorial development, the development of the labor market, and the transportation, information, social, and educational infrastructures, the formation of a new geography of economic growth and new sectors of the economy and centers of industry, science, and education, the stepping up of fundamental and applied scientific research, the improvement of the quality of general, vocational, and higher education, the improvement of national investment and financial institutions, and the stimulation of the migration of production from other countries into Russia. 60. One of the main avenues of ensuring national security in the sphere of the economy for the long term is an increase in the level of energy security, which includes stable provision of internal demand for standard-quality energy sources, a growth in energy efficiency and energy savings and in the competitiveness of Russian energy companies and producers of energy resources, the prevention of shortages of fuel and energy resources, the creation of strategic fuel reserves and reserve capacities, the production of subassemblies, and the stable functioning of energy and heat supply systems. 61. The necessary conditions for ensuring energy security are an increase in the effectiveness of state management of the fuel and energy complex, reliable and uninterrupted deliveries of energy resources to consumers, the safeguarding of the country's technological sovereignty in the world energy market, the introduction of promising energy-saving and energy-efficient technologies, an increase in the level of processing of energy resources, the prevention of discrimination against Russian suppliers of energy sources on foreign markets and against Russian extraction companies in the exploitation of hydrocarbon deposits outside the Russian Federation, the countering of attempts by a number of states to regulate markets in energy resources on the basis of political rather than economic expediency, and the development of promising energy-saving technologies and the international exchange of such technologies. 62. With a view to countering threats to economic security, organs of state power and local selfgovernment organs in collaboration with the institutions of civil society implement a state socioeconomic policy making provision for: -- ensuring the stability of the macroeconomic situation, stimulating economic growth rates in excess of the corresponding figures for developed states, and supporting the real sector of the economy; -- increasing the efficiency and quality of state management of the economy, reducing costs and inefficient budget expenditures, combating the improper use and embezzlement of state resources and corruption, and increasing the effectiveness of management of assets belonging to the state; -- strengthening the financial system, ensuring its sovereignty and the stability of the ruble rate of exchange, optimizing currency regulation and control, reducing inflation, developing the national infrastructure of financial markets, reducing bank interest rates, increasing the level of direct investments and availability of credit using "long" money, attracting domestic savings, de-offshoring companies, and repatriating Russian capital and reducing its exportation; UNCLASSIFIED