An ordinary citizen of Ukraine is in painful quest for an answer to the question: what awaits the country in the next two-three years? Economic growth? Territorial disintegration, like it happened in Yugoslavia in the 1990s? Or … a war?

The main strategic trends of 2015 as part of the annual project “Strategic matrix of Russia”.

Laureates of the program “Characters of the century” by the results of 2015.

We begin to publish fragments from the new book by S.Y. Rybas “They are the first to enter the Hell, or the total plot”. This is a book about the February 1917, about secret circumstances and figures of the coup d’état, accomplished by political, financial and military top of the Russian Empire. The author examines the nature of the plot as a problem of relations between society and the power on the background of intra-collision of economic and political interests, as well as international competition for access to resources and communications.

The article describes the principle of creating a network of live supercomputers. It proposes a theory of internal time as the basis for managing evolution. It introduces a universal constant of psycho-engineering and describes the principle of psychogenic systems calibration. A model of technological singularity is proposed. The article also examines four basic attributes of a new vision of the Future presented by the Russian President V.V. Putin at the UN Summit on Sustainable Development.