Opening remarks by editor-in-chief

In the 1950-s in Moscow there were two “important„ New Year trees: one in the Columns Hall, and the other for the first time in the Kremlin. I was chosen for the responsible role — the Snow Maiden at the Kremlin New Year party. And I had been already occupied as the Snow Maiden at the children’s party in the Columns Hall…

Domestic designers need to go a long way in order to achieve commercial success and recognition.

Today one stage is not enough for a talented artist. He wants to exhibit himself on different stages, in the cinema, to work with different directors, and it is only for the benefit of art.

The troops under Genghis Khan were notable for rigid discipline. Devotion, loyalty and firmness of soldiers were encouraged, treachery, betrayal and cowardice were severely persecuted.

Immersion of mankind into the information society, paradoxically, enlarges the spaces of inaccessible and simultaneously proposes new technological possibilities for reducing the uncertainty of events and support of the right decisions.

Consolidation of partners’ competencies for achieving economic effect positively influences innovation.

Development and approval of certain strategic planning documents today is irrelevant without development and legislative consolidation of the entire complex of documents, tools and organization of strategic planning.

World development will seek to limit the material goods and to replace them increasingly by non-material benefits (knowledge, new information).

Today it is appropriate to think: whether modernization can be accomplished under the conditions of spiritual and moral crisis, cultural degradation of the country, of a depression of immensely large proportion of the population?