Changing of a conjuncture index of “Economic strategy” (CIES) for the january – december 2015 is considered. The contribution of indicators of supply and demand in CIES is estimated. The analysis of industrial production is carried out.

The authors consider practical aspects of assessing the impact “of sanctions wars” on the Russian Federation stock market. The authors analyze and identify peculiarities affecting trends formation on the oil and gas stock market.

Postreform Russia is a new country developing with different speeds.

The author exercises a legal analysis of a judicial authority decision in respect of the journal “Issues of Economics”. In particular, the analysis is based on the “rule of law” criterion and the limits of judicial discretion. The author concludes that the law enforcer, showing legal nihilism, has issued illegal judicial act. The court decision actually violates the principle of equality and coordination of the parties’ wills. In addition, the law enforcers has committed arbitrary interference in the economic activities of participants. The author hopes that the paper will help a federal legislator in respect of constituting the true status of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a legal entity of public law with the functions of public administration since the status of the RAS constitutes an element of scientific and technological sovereignty of the state and is a component of national security.

Comparative analysis of approaches to the indicative assessment of scientific workers efficiency in academic and industrial institutions and educational organizations is held.

The purpose of the article is to justify theoretically the possibility of achieving the maximum social efficiency of public spending, investment and taxes in perfect balanced open economic system. Ideally, the proposed model ( “zero losses” of public spending and investment social efficiency) can always lead to the maximum possible rate of economic growth, which allows to substantiate the main directions of the appropriate macroeconomic (financial, tax and fiscal) policy.

In view of the increasing State’s influence in the economy around the World, especially in 2010s, we start publishing series of lectures dedicated to interaction between State and Business. The author examines the State’s participation in economic life of some countries and beyond national borders, State’s relationship with Private Capital in the conditions of the market economy formation and further internationalization. The term “State capitalism” is becoming widespread again in the World. This is largely due to the increasing number of companies with State participation among the leading transnational corporations, especially coming from emerging economies. The course of lectures deals with the history of interaction between State and Business and is intended for undergraduate and graduate students studying the History of economic Thought and economic policy. It may also be useful for everybody interested in evolution of the State’s role in one of the key areas of its influence — economy.

The article considers and analyzes the main features of the market of long-haul unmanned aerial vehicles (LH UAV) and, therefore, the main advantages and disadvantages of LH UAV and peculiarities of their marketing.

This article describes and analyzes the main factors affecting the changing conditions of the global market of High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), as well as the sales dynamics and changes in assortment on HALE UAV market and the impact of low maintainability of UAV design elements, made from innovative composite materials, on the sphere of their application.