Nikolay T. Belyaev, who united Russia, England and France with his life and his works, represented a surprising combination of the qualities of artillery officer, scholar in physical metallurgy and historian.

Gorbachev made the worst — he let the enemy into our information space, and today this enemy is trying to make his point of view dominant in Russia.

December 9, 2010 the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted the tenth jubilee session of the Global Strategic Forum on the theme “Whirlwinds of Global Risks Development Strategy of Russia”. During the second block of the Forum leaders of Russian IT-sector presented a report “On strategic directions of IT-industry development in Russia”, prepared by a working group within the Information and Computer Technologies Industry Association (APKIT) in cooperation with the Institute for economic strategies.

Corporate social responsibility is treated as a new business philosophy, as its voluntary contribution into resolving economic, social and environmental problems of the society.

One of the mechanisms of interaction between government, business and non-profit organizations is the use of community foundations.

Social campaign has a significant impact on women’s decision to restrict smoking during pregnancy or even give up this habit.

In the name of long-term sustainable development of Russia, the state should work towards management of risk of moral degradation of the population with the aim of creating a society of moderate consumption and fair distribution of the state wealth without infringing on everybody’s rights of private property.

Today the success of modernization in many respects depends not only on achieving social cohesion around core values of development, but also on the forced solution of the two key challenges: ensuring the growth of productive forces and completing the construction of the political system, capable to guarantee that growth.

Knowledge and Professional Competence — the Most Important Competitive Advantage.

Natural resource management can be thought of only as one of the essential components of the long-term strategy for the country’s development, but we don’t have such a strategy.