Legal and Economic Basis of Western Sanctions and their Impact on Food Security and Russian National Independence

Aim. Develop an algorithm to diagnose the consequences of Western sanctions on Russian agricultural development, considering state priorities for independence and import substitution. The need stems from agriculture's localization and the imperative to ensure food security/national independence via domestic resources or trade. Utilized statistical databases on agriculture in Russian regions. Employed statistical analysis, indicative planning, security diagnostics, and algorithmbased modeling. The outcomes include legal identification of the nature and expected goals of Western sanctions in the sphere of food security and national independence; a methodology for assessing sanctions' impact on agricultural activity and its independence; proposals to improve planning for regional independence from sanctions' negative effects within national food market. Presents the results of developing a methodology for assessing the impact of sanctions on the development of Russian agriculture, based on the function of food independence for meta‐group food products (Russian Food Security Doctrine). An original system of indicators for diagnosing the level of agricultural dependence/independence on sanctions was proposed, spanning from micro to macro levels. Testing the original methodology for assessing the sanctions impact on agricultural development yielded evaluation results at both regional and national levels, covering individual meta‐group food products and their aggregate.