March 29, 2011 in the Sergievsky Hall of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, enlarged meeting of the Club of Orthodox entrepreneurs took place in the format of public hearings on key strategic issues of the country’s development, problems of social policy, childhood protection, formation of fair and conscientious financial system.

 December 9, 2010 the Russian Academy of Sciences held the tenth anniversary session of the Global Strategic Forum on the topic “Whirlwinds of global risks and strategy of Russia’s development”. The third block of the forum – futurological essays “Forecasting of emergency situations in Russia and the world” – was devoted to problems of natural disasters control and crime fighting. Information and psychological pressure on humans as a factor of emergency situations was also discussed.

Simultaneously with Khrushchev’s removal ended the heroic period of the Soviet Union. Henceforth, a new period began, the content of which was to try to avoid the looming ideological and economic crisis.

Alexander Ageev’s opening remarks.

Strangely enough, but good corporate governance, ensuring compliance with laws, standards, rules, rights and responsibilities, enables companies to avoid also the costs associated with legal suits, claims of shareholders and other economic disputes.

The President speaks about modernization, but only trifling sum was allocated for those five key areas of modernization, which he outlined in his Address. Funding is neither provided for development of the real sector of economy. You can formulate brilliant ides, you can make world-class discoveries, but there will be nowhere to implement them. We have no machinery construction, no aviation industry, the automotive industry does not develop, robotics is neglected and very little is invested in space.

Rating of the top 50 socially oriented companies in Russia

Evaluation of each subject of the Russian Federation as an object of systematic management of the country’s economy, focus of the state integration policy on the achievement of real strategic goals, such as meeting social requirements and development of socio-economic potential of the country in the long run — all this is lacking today in domestic economic policy.

Introduction of quality principles into educational programs should become the immediate step — recently the quality of our education is falling down.

Natural resource management can be thought of only as one of the essential components of the long-term strategy for the country’s development, but we don’t have such a strategy.