Today we are witnessing the sunset of the American empire — the Americans will not be able to get out of the pit into which they have fallen. And in Russia the USA is still considered as the center of the world.

At present only the United States correspond in full to the level of a superpower. Russia is still close to this level, but by such indicators as production of weapons in the whole spectrum of modern systems, the strength of the armed forces and equipment of high-precision weapons, advanced systems of control and communication there is a substantial gap with the U.S.

Mineral resources of our country — a national treasure, the volume and value of which does not depend on political collisions!

Forty years ago, Alvin and Heidi Toffler recognized that the pace of environmental change was rapidly accelerating and threatened to overwhelm the relatively slow pace of human response.

The project of building a bridge across the Golden Horn bay has united three innovations — Vladivostok as innovation capital of the region, the innovative design of the bridge across the Golden Horn bay and innovative by spirit and content of its activity the Pacific bridge-building company that won the tender for its construction.

At the moment Russia, according to Western estimates, is considered to be the state possessing a good reserve in the area of new technologies. But to achieve the objectives that it had set for itself, the Russian government should take some immediate measures to stimulate innovation activity.

The moral component of our life does not depend on whether the car is slightly better or slightly worse. But what it really depends on — is the social mobility of people, their ability to develop social institutions, to channel social activity, to consolidate existing patterns of socially approved forms of activity and communication.

After joining the WTO Russia will completely lose control over the formation of branches of its economy, that is by joining multilateral agreement on investments it will lose the status of industrial power.

Today we are increasingly in favour of the idea that the first to describe the coming catastrophic crisis without encouraging reservations and without distinguishing those right and guilty, was Russian by origin Pitirim Sorokin.

To date there are only 18 enterprises producing linen fabrics for technical and household purposes remaining in the Russian Federation. Nevertheless, light and textile industry of Russia has got great not yet realized potential for growth.