Academician Vladimir Skulachev — the leading Russian biologist with the highest citations rating in prestigious scientific journals, director of the Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, the MSU professor. The scientist regards study of aging processes as the main direction of his scientific career. And in the last five years he specified an audacious goal: to cancel the aging process in living cells, programmed by the nature, to win a number of geriatric diseases and to postpone death. The project that became one of the few examples of successful domestic innovation, managed to survive in difficult Russian conditions only thanks to private investments.

Among the numerous participants of the II Regional Forum of social projects “Human Health — our contribution into the country’s future” there are representatives of public associations, non-profit organizations, but mostly students and volunteers from different regions of Russia. These are people who are interested not only in maintaining their health, but primarily in healthy lifestyle popularization, its widest possible dissemination, and therefore interested in really healthy generation.

The paper considers changes of the “Economic Strategies” opportunistic index (OIES) for January – October 2013. The contribution of supply and demand indices into OIES is estimated. Industrial production analysis is performed.

Oil prices forecast for the period from December 2013 to December 2014, prepared by the Institute of Energy Strategy in collaboration with the Institute for Economic Strategies based on neural model taking into account the experience of the world oil market functioning during the last decades.

The regular meeting of eminent scientists and publicists, who traditionally gather at the Institute for Economic Strategies to discuss pressing issues, was dedicated to morality in contemporary Russian society.

2013 is the year of the 20th anniversary of the Slovak Republic. We cannot say that the country started from scratch: in times of CMEA there was a powerful heavy engineering industry. But the country has entered the market, and the market came to Slovakia. Today tourism is the most important industry in Slovakia.

How and why coins are becoming a source of historical facts or deny them? And how through a coin — as through a magnifying glass — you can look back into the past and see the cultural achievements of predecessors, works of the great sculptors and architects, artists’paintings, joy and tears of the people?

Opening address of editor-in-chief.

Research parks of various types and sizes are more often considered like effective mechanisms of improving returns on investment in research and development. In addition, innovation parks are considered a proven means, promoting formation of new and increasing competitiveness of existing high-tech companies, as well as creation of new jobs and increase of the general welfare and society stability.

The economic crisis of 2009 – 2014 in Russia and Ukraine is not a result of the global financial crisis impact. The continuing deterioration of the Ukraine and Russia’s economies is caused primarily by inadequate macroeconomic policy, which cannot be optimal due to institutional character of its origin.