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.

Opening address of editor-in-chief.

A series of terrorist attacks in Paris, plane crashes, explosions in different cities around the world, a terrorist war against the legitimate government in Syria, the terror in Russia’s North Caucasus — all these phenomena called forth the problem of ongoing processes of the terrorist component expansion in the global geo-strategic players’ activities like regularity pattern manifesting the systemic crisis of the western world order model. Geostrategic nature of terrorist operations is an integral part of the globalized competition in contemporary geo-economic and geopolitical environment. It is necessary to comprehend the new macro-terroristic reality and to develop measures to confront qualitatively new risks and threats to our country’s security and whole world’s.

The article examines the role of the deoffshorization (counteraction to base erosion and profit shifting) in improving of the globalizing world, its connection with money laundering and place in the emerging system of global governance.

Strategic potential rating of telecommunications companies in Russia is compiled according to the original methodology of the Institute for Economic Strategies, based on assessment of nine key fundamentals: quality of management, resource potential, finance, product quality, interaction with investors, motivation effectiveness, corporate culture, market position, innovation efficiency.

Information technologies maintain high rates of development. The largest contribution comes from the analytics, Internet of things, recording density increase, 3D-printing, cloud technologies, as well as from network and information security. The article analyzes the IT situation in 2014 – 2015.

Currently, the issue of mobile payments application while forming the independent national payment system is one of the most urgent. Since the transition to mobile payment systems in Russia, as well as introduction of security systems against their break-in require certain costs, in the current economic conditions credit institutions should have sufficiently serious motivation for the new systems introduction. While business revenues are going down, increased spending for new systems introduction may seem irrational strategy. However, the positive side of mobile payments is that they will allow to reduce capital expenditures, taking into account that introduction technologies have been already developed, they should not be re-created. Further widespread use of mobile payments is inseparably connected with ensuring the required security level. The article examines the main threats that consumers could face while paying for goods and services via mobile phone.

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