The article was prepared on the subject of ensuring the sustainable development of the territories in the Arctic zone on the environmental basis. The aim of the study is to develop a conceptual approach to assess the efficiency of public administration in the field of environmental development of territories in the Arctic zone, as the variety and importance of modern environmental risks constantly increase. Special, universal and general scientific methods of scientific cognition were used in the work. The article presents problems, conceptual approach and proposals to assess the efficiency of public administration of environmentally-oriented territorial development in the Arctic zone and improve environmental performance and ecological and economic efficiency of activities in the Russian Arctic region. The key tasks, constituent elements, objects and criteria for assessing the efficiency of this activity are outlined.

National projects developed in accordance with the national development goals of Russia allow us to implement key tasks for socio-economic development of the country, as well as welfare of its population. Evaluation of performance indicators and control points at all stages of national projects functioning allows to determine the need for operational management decisions at local, regional, and federal levels. In the conducted research, the monitoring implementation of national projects in Russian system has been considered. The assessment of key risks and possible threats to national projects implementation has been performed out, as well as possible ways to solve problems proposed. The main documents that regulate national projects execution, the mechanism and structure of national projects monitoring have also been studied. Traditional theoretical research methods were used in the article, including system analysis and synthesis, as well as inductive and deductive approaches that made it possible to evaluate the “Electronic Budget” – a unified state integrated information system for public finance management of Russia, as well as a separately functioning system based on the “Center for Information Technology and Systems of Executive Authorities named after A.V. Starovoitov” called “Information system for monitoring national projects and programmes in the social sphere”. The analysis results obtained allowed us to conclude the key problems and errors in the process of monitoring national projects implementation in Russia and to make suggestions for their elimination.

The article is dedicated to the pressing issue of public administration of higher education in the context of scientific and technological development. The research aim is to identify key aspects of public administration of higher education to achieve scientific and technological development goals and to propose practical recommendations for improving this interaction in Russia. The study examines the “University 3.0” concept, conducts a comparative analysis of higher education as a tool of scientific and technological development (in Russia and Israel), identifies the main problems in this area and suggests possible solutions. The study reveals the necessity to modernise the Russian higher education system in response to the challenges of scientific and technological progress. System approach, comparative analysis, methods of classification and synthesis were used during the research. The research rests on academic works of Russian and foreign authors, official websites of the legal-reference systems, as well as on statistic data published by the National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation and the World Economic Forum.

In modern conditions, search for an ideal combination of resources to meet needs of society with maximum benefit for the participants is becoming a key task of the modern economy. This is provided by the infrastructure which is a space that allows for material and non-material resources to move freely and ensures the achievement of the intended goals. In this regard, the infrastructure is a link, a service subsystem that provides vital activity of the system itself and its survival in the market. The article analyses the key indicators, characterising the infrastructure of higher education. The patterns, providing both positive and negative trends in the development of higher education, are revealed.Among the key factors that require close attention of both theoretical and practical economists are the factors that describe the decline in demand for higher education. This is the position of students and employees of higher school organisations.

The relevance of the study is related to the need to activate innovation in the context of socio-economic and geopolitical challenges that the Russian economy faces. In the innovative economy, the labour costs and physical capital are reduced, and the share of intellectual capital in the first-cost of created products increases. There is a rapid growth in the productivity of production factors while their first-cost decreases. All this suggests that we need to study innovation processes in relation to the manufacturability level of production as a system characteristic that describes the type of a particular production. The authors present the structure of production types by the level of manufacturability and types of economic activity that form them. The specificity of the innovation activity of the industry is indicated according to the level of production manufacturability. The comparative characteristic of innovation activity of this phenomenon on various levels is also given.

This article continues the study of the Innovation sphere role in the higher education system for innovative economy personnel training. It is devoted to the problem of the network project-based learning development within the framework of the entrepreneurial university model implementation. The core of the problem is development of entrepreneurial competencies in technical universities to promote technological startups through usage of expertise acquired by the Innovation students. The following article, as well as the previous one, is based on Basadur simplex method to find a range of factors which contribute to the solution of non-standard management problems. Identification of barriers to interaction is the most important factor in the development of a successful collaboration. Barriers of insufficient acquaintance with a partner, or low innovation susceptibility to the collaboration, are considered serious. The purpose of the study is to determine the external factors of innovative susceptibility to network interaction by universities that provide innovations. Low demand in the labour market is said to be the main barrier to the innovative susceptibility towards an innovation manager. There is no standardisation of his activity under the conditions of a high role of the Russian labour market regulation aspect. As a result, the author’s vision of key requirements set for the development of professional innovation standards is proposed to promote the innovation manager and increase innovative susceptibility of the market to his qualification level.

The article examines the problems on implementing the strategy of digital transformation of industries in the Russian economy based on the metallurgical industry that determines the economic growth opportunities of the three industrial sectors which form the largest part of gross domestic income. The subject of the study is the level of digital maturity of metallurgical companies under economic sanctions. The purpose of the study is to determine the current level of digitalisation of metallurgical companies and to form the directions for possible development of digital technologies in the context of anti-Russian sanctions. The methodology of the study is based on system, indicative, comparative and statistical methods of analysis. The first part of the study is devoted to a comprehensive assessment of the industry’s digital maturity and identification of key trends in business digitalisation to characterise its innovation potential as a major resource provider in the Russian industry. A system of indicators for assessing digital maturity based on variable methodologies is considered a criterion for assessing innovation potential of digital business transformation. The results of the analysis show that the metallurgy complex has sufficient growth potential for business digital maturity and refers to the drivers of digitalisation.

The article is devoted to the study of catering enterprises strategy implementation in the conditions of economic crisis situations of 2020–2022. In particular, the article highlights the foreign scientists’ points of view regarding the definition of the “strategy implementation” concept, and the process approach to the definition is provided as a fundamental one. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that on the basis of the study key catering market trends for the period 2020–2022 were identified. The following main statistical indicators were used: the turnover of catering in the Russian entities and per capita, the number of places in catering enterprises and the availability of catering enterprises per 1,000 population. It was concluded that apart from the ongoing post-coronavirus trends, such as ensuring a high level of quality and safety of manufactured products, changing the supply chains, delivery of finished goods and takeaway format, in modern conditions, consumers are becoming more economical and rational in their expenses and are trying to optimise their budget. In 2022 and 2023, the following trends remain: establishment of  interaction between catering enterprises and consumers, personalisation of clients, support of positive “word of mouth” and establishment of partnerships with local suppliers of  products and ingredients to ensure supply stability. An assessment of catering enterprises strategy implementation with consideration to the influence of the identified trends is emphasised as a direction for further research.

The implementation of the programme for modernisation of Russian oil refineries, launched in 2011, has already significantly increased the depth of oil refining and the quality of petroleum products. It has had a positive effect on reducing the country’s dependence on crude oil exports and has made it possible to obtain a significant positive environmental effect. However, at the same time, there has been a decrease in marginality. At the present stage, the main problems of the Russian oil refining, which affect, among other things, the implementation of modernisation projects, are associated with a ban on the supply of equipment and software for oil refining, the imposition of an embargo and a price ceiling for oil products. The article analyses the results of the implementation of the modernisation programme in terms of the impact on economic and environmental performance of oil refineries and the impact of sanction restrictions on the further modernisation of enterprises. It also considers possible ways to solve problems through the development and implementation of modern production technologies in combination with digital solutions.

The current work is relevant due to the existence of problems in the food industry that are directly related to hazards presented at the earliest stages in the production. For the consumer, to maintain his physical health when eating is of great importance, and for the manufacturer, this is a matter of economic well-being through the production and supply of safe products for consumption. The purpose of the study was to develop suggestions focused on the use of an extended risk-based approach in the format of a food safety management system. If а systematic analysis of the most significant risk-based technologies is applied, it will allow to build a workable and effective protection system and minimise losses from impact of dangerous factors on an organisation’s processes. The authors studied the most interesting international and domestic standards that address the problem of reducing risks and hazards for food industry enterprises, and chose the most effective methods that complement each other. A logically built four-stage model of risk treatment at the operational and organisational levels of the enterprise and recommendations for expanding the risk-based approach in the food safety management system are the results of the work.

The processes of economic development of the Russian regions nowadays represent a deep practical interest in the professional community, which requires further study and observation in dynamics. Due to natural and artificial circumstances and reasons, the regions of the country are developed extremely unevenly. There are no actual systematisation of the economic development of the federal subjects management and territorial clusterisation according to their development indicators. The Lipetsk region historically and today is also no exception. The region is part of the Central Federal District and a significant industrial centre here. More than 18 years ago the industrial special economic zone (hereinafter referred to as ISEZ) “Lipetsk” was created. The Lipetsk region is one of the first regions among various investment ratings in terms of quality and volume of investments, as well as among implemented investment projects, involving domestic and foreign capital. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of the activities of the ISEZ “Lipetsk” on the socio-economic processes of the region and to study the possibilities of assessing such an impact.

In the course of the study, a cluster analysis of Russian regions was performed based on characteristics associated with industrial and economic development. As a result, it was established that there is a direct correlation between the level of industrial production and general indicators of economic well-being of the regions such as gross regional product (hereinafter referred to as GRP) and GRP per capita. Within the framework of the cluster analysis, on the basis of above mentioned characteristics, the regions were divided into three groups. The most numerous of them is the group of regions with the lowest level of development. This is primarily due to the uneven distribution of natural resources throughout the country, when a small number of regions have faster development of the mining sector compared to others. Although it is worth noting that the development of the manufacturing industry also has a significant impact on economic well-being. Therefore, the first group, consisting of the most successful regions in terms of economic and industrial indicators, included not only oil-producing and capital regions, but also large industrial centres such as Tatarstan, Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions. A qualitative analysis of the results showed the success of the current cluster analysis of Russian regions. Only a few uncharacteristic values of indicators were noted which have significant differences for their cluster groups. This mainly applies to oil-producing regions where the level of the extractive sector development is too high compared to the rest of the regions of its group. Although, in general, regarding the sum of indicators, these regions were classified into a specific cluster.

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that there are problems with supply of foreign raw materials and goods to the Russian market for the uninterrupted operation of the energy system as a whole caused by modern complicated economic conditions and current international situation. Besides, there is need to develop and form new conceptual approaches to the strategy of energy systems development amid forced modernisation of the industry. The conducted research is aimed at identifying and analysing existing and new directions in the formation of these original conceptual approaches in conditions of efficient functioning of the Russian industry. Based on the conducted work, the materials of scientists who have studied this problem were examined, and according to the results of the assessment, the following conclusions were formulated. To begin with, non-standard approaches to the management component of the energy systems development within the frame-work of forced modernisation were named. Finally, the potential possibility of rational use of all factors through the synchronisation of processes in diversification production played the role of socio-economic orientation.

This article is aimed at expanding the applicability of meso-institutional concept in the markets of natural monopolies in the context of a new institutional economic theory. Within the framework of the considered concept the impact of the institutional environment level on evolutionary development of energy and housing and public utilities markets is evaluated alongside with modern approaches of digitalisation. In the first part of the current article the author describes theoretical foundations of the meso-institutional environment concept in respect to the energy and housing and public utilities markets. The definition of the concept and its usage domain are given. Besides, the goals difference of meso- and macro-institutions are analysed in detail. The theoretical part also covers approaches of A.E. Shastitko applied to the energy and housing and public utilities markets. Moreover, the hypothesis of conflict resolution between macro- and meso-institutions is described in framework of markets regulation mechanisms. Also, the regulation mechanisms of the two markets are analysed, including market power instruments of meso-institutions. In addition, the article covers the problem of maintaining a balance of market participants’ interests through these mechanisms. In conclusion, the author offers the concept of improving market mechanisms with the help of the meso-institutional development strategy. It is designed to solve the problem of maintaining a balance of market participants’ interests and predetermine the formation of a new improved institutional environment in the energy and housing and public utilities markets.

This article presents methods for assessing the effectiveness of public finances, considered on the example of determining the filling of the revenue side of regional and local budgets. Based on data of the Federal Tax Service, the effectiveness of the process of paying property taxes on individuals to the budget in the regions of the Volga Federal District was assessed. This assessment was based on the analysis of the degree of the set goals achievement in the formation of budget revenues. The following types of public finances effectiveness are considered: a) budgetary, which determines the filling of the budget; b) social, aimed at observing the principles of social justice in society; c) dynamic, which demonstrates the dynamics and trends in the development of taxation processes; d) investment, which considers the missed potential opportunities for regional budgets replenishment. An analysis of the relationship between the growth rates of property taxes, the gross regional product (hereinafter referred to as GRP) and the rates of the real disposable income of the population was made. It is concluded that the rates of tax revenue to the budget outstrips the growth rates of GRP and significantly outstrips the rates of real disposable income of the population, which tends to decline. That indicates an increase in the tax burden for the population and an increase of socio-economic inequality in society.

Currently, the development of small and medium businesses is considered a key driver for the formation and growth of market economy, which is especially true for Russia, since the contribution of these types of businesses to gross domestic product is low. However, in the Russian Federation there are still no in-depth studies of the factors of entrepreneurial activity development, one of which is the level of education. This paper examines the impact of education, especially economic education, on success in entrepreneurship. The authors analysed data on Russian billionaires and found that one in three of them has a degree and only 3 % do not have a higher education, which is very different from the national average. Then, with the help of the counterparty reviewing service, an inspect of teachers from the Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management (thereinafter referred to as NSUEM) was made on doing business, which showed the connection between the level of education, turnover and business net profit. The main result of the study is a sociological survey of the NSUEM teaching staff about doing business. It made possible to formulate a number of conclusions on the degree and nature of the influence of the education level on entrepreneurship. In particular, a comparison was conducted: assessments of the main factors hindering business progress, according to ordinary entrepreneurs from the survey provided by Synergy University, were compared to the answers of entrepreneurs of the current study.

The article considers the category of socio-ecological and economic space and its main deformations as factors, determining the directions and necessary volumes of interterritorial cooperation. The deformations serve as the result of lack of financing in the development of its elements, their multidirectionality and inefficient use of the existing potential. Besides, we identify the discrepancy between administrative boundaries and service areas as one of the reasons for deformation of the socio-ecological and economic space. Fuller use of available social infrastructure capacities requires joint maintenance of the existing organisations. In the research, the types and depth of the socio-ecological and economic space deformation and factors, causing them, are shown. The level of deformation can be different, which is reflected in the known indicators of deviation from the current threshold values that characterise the preservation of its quality: within the maximum allowable concentration (in ecology), within the framework of existing standards (in saturation of social infrastructure objects), etc. The development of territorial cooperation is considered as an effective factor in overcoming the deformations of the socio-ecological and economic space, allowing to use available potentials better. Moreover, this activity can be aimed at creating a fundamentally new space architecture or improving its elements.

This study presents the aggregative data analysis concerning foreign trade of the Eurasian Economic Union (hereinafter referred to as EAEU) countries. A gravity model of the foreign trade in several modifications between 2011 and 2019 (the period before the COVID-19 pandemic) was applied. On the basis of the conducted research it was discovered how fast the impact of the distance factor between foreign economic partners decreases with consideration to the time factor. Also those industries and spheres of activity were identified where the factor may be the least important or where the model is not applicable at all. Besides, the authors gave recommendations to include additional factors in the gravitational model if it is applied for analysis and forecasting of foreign trade with border states or states that are not part of the EAEU.

The article studies the improvement of the production activities of a large electric power company in the Moscow region, Public joint stock company “Mosenergo” (hereinafter referred to as “Mosenergo”) by proposing a set of measures for a radical renovation (reengineering) of the main technological business process – “Heat and electricity production”. Based on the process approach and methods of strategic analysis, SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats), the key company success factors were identified, an enlarged business model of “Mosenergo” was built and analysed, followed by the selection of the most preferable business process. With the help of a matrix of criteria, an assessment of business process importance or readiness for the implementation of the selected strategies was made. Key success factors for “Production of heat and electricity” business process were formed. However, in modern conditions, due to the tightening of sanctions imposed by unfriendly countries, the risks of supply disruptions and termination of equipment maintenance are increasing, which causes negative trends in key performance indicators of the selected business process, namely the accident rate and/or the frequency of emergency operation of automatics cases. The set of measures for reengineering the business process “Production of heat and electricity” is based on the idea of automatic technological business process of the company through the introduction of highly effective domestic digital technologies as part of the industry’s digital transformation strategy. The import substitution programme to minimise risks caused by geopolitical events in the world is considered.

There are two purposes of the study, the results of which are summarised in this article: to systematise modern approaches of assessing the effectiveness of certain tax control forms and to develop proposals for optimising ways to identify the most effective of them. The conclusions made in the article about the change in the determinants that condition the effectiveness of tax control allowed us to justify the need for transformation of approaches to its assessment. The risk-oriented approach proposed by the author to assess the effectiveness of certain tax control types differs from existing views and has not been proposed or considered in the scientific literature before. It focuses on a comparative assessment of the rate of change in the number of taken measures and the results of tax control. Conclusions made on the basis of the implementation of the risk-based approach to assess effectiveness of various tax control forms confirm the conclusions made during the application of quantitative and coefficient methods. However, they are less laborious to obtain results and more visual.

The subject of this study is the modern aspects of Russia’s positioning in the global energy space. They are associated with the shift from the previously established liberal world order and the trend towards new polarisation in the world economic system, as well as with the increasing risks of turbulence in world energy markets. In this regard, it is extremely important to assess the real impact of economic sanctions on the nature of relationships and determine promising vectors for the development of energy cooperation between Russia and foreign countries. The research methodology includes analysis and synthesis methods and a historical approach, which are productively used to assess the tactical and strategic actions of our country in the system of international energy cooperation. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the substantiation of theoretical approaches and assessment of the practical implementation of energy cooperation with foreign countries. Those priority interests are considered that determine the economic sovereignty and identity of Russia in the conditions of a gradual but categorical shift of the world community from the previously established imperatives of liberalism and economic globalisation. The article is of an overview nature and describes the key areas of cooperation in the oil and gas and coal industries. Its main provisions may be used for long-term researches related to modernising the strategy of Russia’s foreign economic relations and increasing the level of its foreign economic security in the context of new global challenges.

The factor of scientific and innovation-information development of the country has a significant impact on the level of its economic security. The article presents an analysis of science, innovation and information systems development in Russia, as they are one of the most important factors of the economic security of the state. An assessment of the leading and lagging regions in terms of innovation activity of organisations and volume of research and development was made. Also, directions for development were identified which require additional detailed study of science, innovation and information systems development at the level of federal districts with respect to their specific features and implementation of national projects. The obtained data are the basis for further assessment of the Russian economic security level within the framework of the National Security Strategy.

The article considers evolutionary transformations that express changes in the formats of economic relations. The authors form a scientific judgment on the transformations of business processes towards digital contact. Besides, an understanding of the process is presented not only at the level of economic entities, but also at the level of regional markets and in the structure of the economy development. At the regional level, changes are noted in corporate approaches of doing business, as well as in terms of business tactics and business strategies. At the state level, strategies for taxation, foreign exchange regulation, control and supervision of market participants are changing. In the work, the scientific novelty that consists of compliances is emphasised. These compliances are elements of market “mutations” predetermining and streamlining the formation of digital markets (primarily contacts). The conditions for the development of geospatial markets innovations where a key place is determined by an important compliance (an element of market “mutations”) – economic and political relations – are considered. Particular attention of the authors is payed to the nature of the geoinformation influence process on global and local markets. The process is changing digital communications of subjects. The purpose of the study is to systematise the scientific problems of digital contact economies and to generalise the implementation of world practices while designing approaches. The target of these approaches is development of subjects economic relations according to the assessment of differentiation of geospatial information transformational processes on the geomarkets of the country. The study used methods of analysis and synthesis, system and trend analysis, observation, abstraction and others. The scope of the results is multifaceted and could be used from market infrastructure organisations to state structures.

Investment and construction companies that have adopted the principles of sustainable development need to transform the project management system accordingly. The article discusses the integration of sustainable development in the management system of investment and construction projects. For this purpose, an analysis of scientific works in this area was conducted. During the study, the correspondence of adaptive management to the concept of sustainable development was revealed. As a result, the certain project management tools (Impact Map, management tasks assignment matrix / RACI (responsible, accountable, consult, inform), kanban board, DMAIC concept (define, measure, analyse, improve, control), Lean Six Sigma, business model canvas for sustainability) were compared with the mechanisms for integration of sustainable development (the definition of sustainable development activities, commitment action log, acceptance (consideration) of complaints, the improvement of sustainable development implementation in investment and construction projects and determination of sustainable development results in reporting). As a result, the problems of accounting and tracing at all stages of sustainable development requirements, as well as the problems of formation of correspondence reporting, were solved.

We need to prevent a “drawdown” of the Russian economic growth as a result of a large-scale outflow of foreign and domestic capital from the Russian economy under the influence of a repeated increase in sanctions pressure of the West since the beginning of the special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine in 2022. Thus the regulatory authorities, responsible for credit and investment policy, should pay primary attention to measures that support bank lending for the purpose of investment development. It is the source of investment financing in our country that is key for the corporate sector which is not organisationally connected with the state. It is the source that is today’s subject to the greatest destabilising influence of external and internal factors. Firstly, foreign bank loans which were previously five times greater than other forms of foreign capital in replenishing fixed assets, have decreased significantly. Secondly, lenders from the East were unable to replace the “lost” volumes of Western loans and creditors, among which the American ones even rose from the 4th to the 2nd place by March 2023 due to reduced total volumes. Thirdly, in the list of Western sectoral sanctions, measures to break credit connections were the very first and still remain the most painful for the Russian business. Finally, the excessively high interest rate used by the Central Bank to cool currency profiteers and accelerated inflation even aggravates the problem of a compressed credit base for investment in capital stock.

The article discusses the key areas that determine the social differentiation caused by the discrepancy between the educational services market and the labour market. Based on the social statistics data and the results of sociological research the reasons influencing the formation of professional trajectories of young people are investigated and the content of human capital within the framework of the institute of education is analysed. The authors paid special attention to the analysis of the institute which in modern society reproduces the needs of the economic system and strengthens social differentiation, allows an individual to make a holistic choice on the basis of the available educational potential. At the same time, the market of educational services is considered in conditions when supply and demand are separated in time. The search for balance in this market is the result of cooperation between social partners and the efforts of the state.

The purposes of this article are the following: to identify online cinemas that are most common among the audience studying or working at the RUDN University and to compare the results of the conducted work with the results of identical materials. The main tasks are to be named: studying the main proposals among streaming services and online cinemas in Russia; studying the findings of researches on the same topic; compiling a survey to collect primary research information; conducting surveys; summarising the achievements and formulating conclusions. During the study, students of different years aged 18 to 24 were interviewed. They formed a particular list and sequence of popular online cinemas, somewhat different from the research of the GfK agency. According to the survey results, the most attractive streaming services are Kinopoisk HD, Netflix and Ivi (formerly – ivi). In this case, their clear sequence reflects the popularity of use of platforms among students.

The article presents the results of studying the experience of loneliness by young people who choose different life variants. The purposes of the study are aimed at generalising ideas about this phenomenon, at popularisation and development of scientific ideas on individual life variants in modern society for their subsequent use in psychological counseling practice and psychotherapy. The work also implies an empirical analysis and identification of the occurrence features. The “Differential questionnaire of loneliness experience” by E.N. Osin and D.A. Leontev and the «Actual life variant» technique by A.G. Shisheva were used as diagnostic tools. It is shown that the experience of loneliness by young people contributes to self-knowledge, self-development and the ability to establish trusting relationships. The most common life variants among young people are identified: “life as a preface” and “life by the rules”. It is stated that to study real life models of contemporary people in connection with other psychological realities is a promising line of researches.