Well-known political analyst and economist does not conceal feeling quite uncomfortable in the capitalist world: not a dissident, but a dissenter, who is probably being tolerated just because of the democratic principles proclaimed in these countries.

The economic crisis of 2009 – 2014 in Russia and Ukraine is not a result of the global financial crisis impact. The continuing deterioration of the Ukraine and Russia’s economies is caused primarily by inadequate macroeconomic policy, which cannot be optimal due to institutional character of its origin.

The need for information policy is caused by enormous changes in human society occurred in recent decades. Of course, we are speaking about phenomenon of the information society, when information exchange determines public life. To create credible democratic legal forms of information relations in society is exactly the task of information policy that is just beginning to take shape in the country.

The article dwells on the development and application prospects of the radio frequency identification (RFID) information technology. It evaluates the possibility of creating a new sub-sector of telecommunications industry and the main fields of technology application to solving practical problems.

Rating of the most strategic telecommunications companies in Russia.

The article considers the booming cloud computing market, surpassing by growth rates, in general, 5 times the field of information technology. It evaluates existing and prospective formation ways of the global cloud services market as a separate segment of the IT, the most relevant, particularly for the financial sector. It also compares statistics of the world’s largest companies. The Russian market is also analyzed with regard to the corresponding estimates from reputable reports of a number of foreign companies.

The article examines changes of the “Economic Strategies” opportunistic index (OIES) for January – August 2013. It estimates the contribution of supply and demand indices into OIES. Industrial production analysis is presented.

Institute of Energy Strategy in cooperation with the Institute for Economic Strategies continues regular publication of the world oil prices forecasts, developed on the basis of a neural model of the Institute of Energy Strategy, taking into account the oil market experience accumulated during the last decades and allowing to estimate the price dynamics volatility (on a monthly basis) in 2013.

Scholars and practitioners of the newly independent states have argued enough about effectiveness of the alcoholism fighting models. Conventionally it is possible to distinguish seven conceptual approaches to alcohol problem in the world. It is evident that each model contains various modifications, but we have no time and space for detailed material presentation, which is worth perhaps not one but several monographs.

The article formulates and discusses in details two fundamental properties of cognitive processes activation methods for solving the IV level complexity problems. Complexity level is determined by some type of cognitive process, which is considered from gnoseological positions.