Opening address of editor-in-chief.

A market index of the “Economic strategies” (MIES) shows how the trends of economic development in Russia are changing, to what extent the economic situation in Russia is favourable for business.

Financial institutions are special casino, privileged bookmakers, because governments give them the guarantees: in case of insolvency, they will be saved.

Potential of the Russian Academy of Science nowadays is economically not claimed, and the academy has found itself in extreme dependence on the state funding, but the state doesn’t need it economically, and this explains all the difficulties of the Academy.

Over twenty years of Hungarian capitalism there have never been oligarchs, and there is no tendency to their appearance.

For the bulk of the market segments namely innovation is the main incentive to successfully overcome the crisis.

It seems that talk about creating some special innovation legislation is screening to do nothing, just wait: it’s well known that the procedure of legislation development and adoption is a long process, and innovations do not wait, we are so far behind anyway.

Stalin unlike Khrushchev considered dismemberment of Germany as failure of our policy, and in contrast to Beria he led the affairs not to neutralization of this country, but to its non-participation in any militarypolitical groupings.

Historical relations of Russians and Germans are deeper than Russia’s ties with other European nations. It is enough to remember the Empress Catherine II, a German by birth, who entered into our history as Catherine the Great.

Confucius — the symbol of China, its culture and philosophy. Confucianism became one of the pillars of the Chinese state.