Opening address of editor-in-chief.

The interview considers relationship between integrated accounting and complete cost pattern, the nature and role of integrated thinking, search for the ways of eliminating the financial crisis effects and overcoming the global foreign exchange differences.

The article proposes a systematic, pragmatic and creative approach to the status and prospects analysis of the Russian economy development in the context of global instability. This approach is distinguished by understanding economic reality in all its complexity, characterized by nonlinearity, non-equilibrium and uncertainty of socio-economic development processes, by awareness of their laws. On the basis of its application the authors have developed proposals for implementing an integrated public policies system for development and modernization of the economy on the advanced structural and technological basis, the implementation of which will accelerate the pace of economic growth and will allow to pass on to innovative development.

The material was prepared in the framework of developing the RAS proposals to the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin by the expert group of RAS economists headed by Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC NK “Rosneft” academician A.D. Nekipelov, advisor to the President of the Russian Federation academician S.Y. Glazyev, director of the RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting academician V.V. Ivanter, etc. The main focus of the paper is made on the need to establish a strategic management system, capable to identify romising areas of economic growth and to guide the activity of state development institutions and economic regulation instruments to their implementation.

Nonlinear critical nature of economic and political processes dynamics has extremely updated the need for culturally deterministic advantages in managing political process in our country and abroad. It is proposed to get these advantages through pro-Russian civilization enculturation as the basis for realization of political development cultural formats, aimed at reprogramming and reimprinting of key matrices of culturalsemantic values, defining Russian civilization leadership in the world post-capitalist socio-cultural environment, which determines the problem solution of further Russia’s formation as a great power.

The article compares the causes and consequences of financial economic crises of 1991 and 2008 in Finland. The basic measures for stabilizing economic situation in the country are listed.

“Integration” project in the field of contemporary art is intended to describe with the help of artistic images language unification processes occurring in the post-soviet area.

The article consecutively addresses the issues: for what purpose, who, by what means and in what time could have transformed the worldview of the population of the whole country, Ukraine, without causing elementary cognitive dissonance?

The author is a Ukrainian citizen, who cannot and does not want to stay away from what is happening. The article describes how the media owned by big capital are brainwashing the Ukrainian people, setting it against Russia, assuring that its multinational population is the enemy of Ukraine and its occupant.

The article discusses the main results of 2013. It analyzes trends and forecasts of macroeconomic indicators in the medium term until 2015. The paper studies the reasons of existing situation and identifies factors contributing to the economic growth. Dynamics of the Russian economy and global economic trends are compared.