Well-known political analyst and economist does not conceal feeling quite uncomfortable in the capitalist world: not a dissident, but a dissenter, who is probably being tolerated just because of the democratic principles proclaimed in these countries.

Recently, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) became the subject for evidently bespoke attacks of a number of TV channels and newspapers. Attacks were characterized by deliberate distortion of truth and attempts to represent RAS in a negative light. They were accompanied by prosecutor and audit controls of academic administration. It seems to have been preparatory barrage before general offensive. The following legislative formalization of this campaign stirred up not only academic environment, but also the public as a whole.

The author offers a systematic approach to ensuring economic growth sustainability, the task set by the Russian President, with regard to strategic management theory and practice.

State of the Russian post-crisis economy is estimated like a stagnation. There is no recession, but its danger remains.

The ambitious project of Eurasian integration, began in 2010 with establishment of the Customs Union, is entering in a decisive phase. Possible depth and desired coverage of unifying movement are identified, time has corrected the principles of interaction with each other and with potential participants. This article describes the Customs Union operation and the integration prospects within the Common Economic Space.

The article formulates and discusses in details two fundamental properties of cognitive processes activation methods for solving the IV level complexity problems. Complexity level is determined by some type of cognitive process, which is considered from gnoseological positions.

We can only consciously use the subconsciousness just like once we used a thermometer without knowing the nature and meaning of the term “temperature”. If we have recourse to the image of network (thin cloth), which incorporates all the objects of Being, the subconscious mind of a creative person can be perceived like a spider, sensitive to its slightest “twitches” caused by the influence of information grains. Just as a cell assimilates inorganic nutrition components into its living substance, thinking captures and assimilates previously extraneous, not related to it components.

Scholars and practitioners of the newly independent states have argued enough about effectiveness of the alcoholism fighting models. Conventionally it is possible to distinguish seven conceptual approaches to alcohol problem in the world. It is evident that each model contains various modifications, but we have no time and space for detailed material presentation, which is worth perhaps not one but several monographs.

The article examines changes of the “Economic Strategies” opportunistic index (OIES) for January – August 2013. It estimates the contribution of supply and demand indices into OIES. Industrial production analysis is presented.

Institute of Energy Strategy in cooperation with the Institute for Economic Strategies continues regular publication of the world oil prices forecasts, developed on the basis of a neural model of the Institute of Energy Strategy, taking into account the oil market experience accumulated during the last decades and allowing to estimate the price dynamics volatility (on a monthly basis) in 2013.