A brief release of the first meeting of the expert-discussion club of “Analytics” Association held in the Chamber of Commerce of the Russian Federation on December 1, 2014.

The article represents a short version of scenario-based forecast of development of Ukraine and the Russian-Ukrainian relations, prepared in July 2008. The forecast has not been published previously. Subsequent developments have fully confirmed the anticipated, although at the time of the forecast preparation a lot of things would seem futurological fiction on the tails of probability distributions. Assessments of the state and prospects of the Ukraine development, made in 2008, are of practical interest today.

The paper considers changes of the “Economic Strategies” opportunistic index (OIES) in January 2015. The contribution of supply and demand indices into OIES is estimated. Industrial production analysis is performed.

The purpose of the article is to draw attention to the personality and work of S.A. Pervushin, to show how the memory and the Internet have preserved him in the context of N.D. Kondratiev’s long waves.

The planetary world is rapidly changing, so is a man. Today, during the global exploration of the world and globalization of a man himself, the problem of man’s fate and the future of the world is becoming urgent. Topical is the issue of the fate of local — ethnonational — worlds. The author, being Russian, reflects on the fate of the Russian world, wishing neither it nor other ethno-national worlds disappearance.

The article discusses approaches to applying research potential of universities to accelerate competitive development of individual enterprises and regional entities.

The article dwells on inflation processes in Russia. The main factors, which have significantly affected it, are identified and analyzed. The factors themselves are considered from monetary and non-monetary points of view. Particular attention is paid to non-monetary factors of inflation being its main source.

Opening address of editor-in-chief.

The article regards fundamental matters of governance of Russian economy development.

Crimean events — the significant information signal of the new world era beginning, the era that came to substitute the epoch associated with the Soviet Union collapse. In these circumstances, the strategic role of Russia as a guarantor — operator of the system for global and regional balances maintenance allows it to permanently integrate into the system mechanisms determining the contours of the global macroeconomic models and well-being of national and international economic and political institutions: Russia is back among the great powers.