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.

What kind of financial system is it, in which incredible for other countries losses of foreign exchange reserves, acquired with such difficulty over the decades, occur? It is clear that such financial system needs major adjustments.

Knowledge and Professional Competence — the Most Important Competitive Advantage.

It’s possible to say surely that for many centuries two models of relationship in society co-exist — control (diktat!) or partnership, and predominance of one or another component determines the type of corresponding public formation.

Today the success of modernization in many respects depends not only on achieving social cohesion around core values of development, but also on the forced solution of the two key challenges: ensuring the growth of productive forces and completing the construction of the political system, capable to guarantee that growth.

In contrast to the U.S. dollar, euro or pound, congested by debt obligations of the corresponding states, there are good prospects for the issue of reserve currency of the Eurasian Economic Community. This role at the present stage could be played by the Russian ruble, especially as there is an objective economic need, defined by the development potential of the Customs Union.

In the name of long-term sustainable development of Russia, the state should work towards management of risk of moral degradation of the population with the aim of creating a society of moderate consumption and fair distribution of the state wealth without infringing on everybody’s rights of private property.

Social campaign has a significant impact on women’s decision to restrict smoking during pregnancy or even give up this habit.

One of the mechanisms of interaction between government, business and non-profit organizations is the use of community foundations.

Corporate social responsibility is treated as a new business philosophy, as its voluntary contribution into resolving economic, social and environmental problems of the society.