Realizing the whole complexity of the problem of creating micro- and nano-satellites in our country, the RAS Institute for Economic Strategies jointly with the International Research Institute of Management Problems (MNIIPU) decided to form a large expert opinion on the need for this direction quick development, and then to formulate well-substantiated proposals. To this end, a scientific and practical seminar on “Micro- and nano-space devices — problems and perspectives of creation and application” was organized and held in Moscow on December 21, 2017. At the meeting it was decided to prepare a document based on the foresight research on the above-mentioned subjects. It can become a tool that will create a favorable environment for implementing projects and achieving the goals.

Success Strategies of the Chairman of the RSFSR Council of Ministers I.S. Silaev, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, adviser to the RF President S.Yu. Glazyev, President of JSC “Solikamskbumprom” V.I. Baranov.

On March 1, 2018 an annual international chess blitz tournament for the Cup of “REGION” Group of Companies was held in “Kosmos” hotel, which traditionally gathered the best players from all over the world. The stars of the world blitz Sergey Karyakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Shahriyar Mamedyarov, Vladislav Artemyev, Dmitry Andreikin, Ian Nepomnyashchiy, Daniil Dubov, Boris Gelfand, Anton Korobov and other titled chess players took part in the tournament this year. In total, more than two hundred people from 28 countries took part in the tournament. “REGION” Group of Companies celebrated the end of this event in an informal atmosphere, inviting star-studded chess players Anatoly Karpov, Viswanathan Anand, Sergey Karyakin and fans of the game for a friendly dinner to its office in the center of Moscow on March 6, 2018. Among the fans there were the owners and partners of the “REGION” Group of Companies, its staff, as well as the writer, president of the Strategic Initiatives Foundation Sergey Filatov, executive director of the Chess Federations Association, adviser to the president of the Russian Chess Federation Alexander Bakh, general directorate of the RAS Institute for Economic Strategies Alexander Ageev, who immediately joined to conducting this holiday of intelligence. Putting questions to eminent guests, he masterfully built an intellectual blitz interview in sequence, which allowed to compare opinions of representatives of different generations of the Russian chess school – the honored master Anatoly Karpov and the youth representative Sergei Karyakin, as well as to draw parallels with the views of the foreign colleague Viswanathan Anand.

On January 1, 2018 one of the veterans of the Kazakhstan’s diplomatic service T.A. Mansurov celebrated his 70th anniversary. On January 12, 2018 his friends and colleagues, who came to the celebration party in the banquet hall of the Metropol Hotel, congratulated T. Mansurov on this memorable anniversary.

The article analyzes two concepts of the cities’ future. According to one of them, the future is the world of digital megapolises, ecologically friendly environment that provides people with broad educational opportunities and integrates them organically into technologies. The other concept of the cities’ future seems to be more viable, friendly to a person and consists in a more perspective format of small settlements originally free of characteristic problems of large cities and megacities.

Representing a mentally unified whole, but consisting of various forcibly dismembered parts that exist separately in space and time — this is the picture of today economy of the Slavic and then the Russian world. And exactly in such a broad and full-fledged sense, and not like now, in many times truncated and degraded form, the Slavic and later on the Russian world, their role and place, authority and significance should be positioned in the modern world. The authors of the article considering the Slavic world as a mental reality and virtual space, analyze the world economy of the second millennium, when Russia and a number of other young Slavic states began to enter the world scene; they wonder what are the prospects for modern world economic forces order and what place in this arrangement is assigned to Russia, the Russian world and the entire Slavic world.

Sequel of the screenplay for reading about events associated with the Munich conspiracy of 1938.

The article presents comparative analysis of the methods for identifying winners of the “Leaders of Russia” program at the federal level and similar program, implemented in JSC Concern VKO “Almaz-Antey”. Similarities and differences in approaches are identified, directions for improving competitions of this type are suggested.

This article presents the results of the analysis conducted by the author in 2017. During the study of the problem of management staff formation, the state of the system of managerial personnel reserve and succession management in foreign and Russian corporations (including state corporations) was determined. As a result, the author has identified the succession management best practices in corporations, which can serve as a basis for the development of strategic human resource management in Russian organizations.

On March 1, 2018 the Russian State Library hosted the awarding ceremony of the National Award “Best Books and Publishers of the Year — 2017”, dedicated to the Russian history of the 20th century.