Author: Yevgeny A. Petrov, postgraduate of Foreign Economic Activities Dept; Aleksandr N. Syomin, Dr. Sc. (Ec.), Prof., honoured worker of science of the Russian Federation, Director of the Institute of Economy

Abstract: The paper looks at the particularities of dairy market functioning generally in the country and in a number of regions. The authors analyze the possibility to build an algorithm for improving the competitiveness of the enterprises of the dairy sub-complex of the Russian agro-industrial complex as one of the most technologically sophisticated, inertial and capital-intensive part of AIC, crucially influencing the country’s food security and social climate of rural areas.

Key words: rural areas; the WTO; competition; competitiveness; dairy products; food security; dairy market; milk production; dairy sub-complex; Ural region.