TO A QUESTION ABOUT THE CONTENT OF REGIONAL POLICY (RUSSIA-FRANCE) Lebedeva Margarita Leonidovna, PhD in politics, associate professor. <...> Position: Associate Professor at Political Science and Law chair. <...> Place of employment: Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering. <...> E-mail: lebedevameg@mail.ru Annotation: The main goal - to select the model of regional development of the French Republic. <...> Work tasks - determine the specificity of regulation of regional relations within the continental model (for example France) indicate the possibility of using the French model of regional development for the Russian version of the regional unit. <...> Work on this problem Courlet C., Cluzel J., Ladurie L., Duran B. etc. <...> The author uses the system-structural method, in which social relations are seen as a holistic system of relationships established interdependence of phenomena and events. <...> Comparative method of knowledge allows you to select particular relationship "center-regions" in France, which is of particular importance in comparison with a federal system of modern Russia. <...> Analysis of Russian and foreign sources suggests that the problematic issues raised in the article is quite relevant to the current stage of development, the theme being exhausted and not anachronistic in theoretical terms. <...> Possible theoretical understanding of a number of issues relating to the practice of territorial, namely the regional structure of modern France. <...> The study is possible through the study of two models of territorial government - federal and unitary, consideration of the practice of regional development of the unitary state of France and its correlation with the federal building Russia at the present stage of its development. <...> Model of regional policy in France is applicable, taking into account the characteristics and specificity of a particular political system, according to the Russian government. <...> Correlation experience of the French model of regional НОvОlopmОnt rОlations аitС tСО Russian onО «МОntОr anН tСО rОРions» . <...> Valuable experience in solving problems adjusting legal , institutional, financial mechanisms, in accordance with the changing situations . <...> Novelty of the study is a comparison of the unitary and federal systems, state-territorial structure of France and Russia in the framework of the author highlight a possible model of regional political process . <...> The work is intended for anyone interested in comparative politics, political regionalism , international and Russian political process. <...> Evropeyskaya Charter of Local Self (done at Strasbourg 15.10.1985) [electronic resource]. <...> Konstitutsiya <...>