It is shown that the modern methodology of foresight studies is quite flexible and multifaceted, has a wide targeted application at different hierarchical levels of management in economically developed countries. Priorities and promising directions of international foresight programmers are pointed out. Theoretical approaches are specified and the basic foresight technologies applied by foreign researchers in strategic planning of rural development are defined. The foreign experience of foresight studies in rural development is generalized. The systematic approach usage in combination with foresight technologies allows to develop strategic plans for the development in rural territories from the perspective of longterm improvement of their economic and social component. On the basis of using a systematic approach foresight projects and foresight programs used in the management and forecasting of rural development were analised which were worked out by specialists in economically developed countries. It is pointed out that in modern conditions of development in rural territories it is necessary to work out strategic programs and anti-crisis measures that should focus on the use of foresight technologies. The article actualizes the need of foresight technologies in the development of strategic plans of socio-economic development in rural municipalities at the level of the Russian Federation.
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