No 1 (2015)

Genesis and essence of “guided chaos” theory is revealed as well as the reasons why this theory is added to the armoury of the USA when conducting their foreign economic policy. The article shows that the uncertainty and chaos let the USA keep their world supremacy and further make a profit out of arms race, eliminate the competitors that are out of favour and proceed to exploit the whole world using financial system and financial capital formed in their behalf. The difficulties in the implementation of modernization and innovative development of Russia are analyzed in the article and showed that dropping of economic growth rate in Russia almost to zero is connected not only with the sanctions imposed and internal factors but affords ground to take a look at a problem from the point of view of “guided chaos” processes. The virus of “guided chaos” has deeply penetrated in the high education system, the mass media, the authorities of the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank. The symptoms of this disease appear in numerous spheres and, first of all, in monetary one. The necessity of new economic policy on the basement of global internal development with respect to dynamic external environment is substantiated in the article.

The purpose of the article is to reveal the historical roots of gender asymmetry and to show the current state of the problem. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the situation leads to the conclusion that gender discrimination in Russia is a consequence of evolving social norms and rules, which reproduce unequal relations between men and women. Professional status of women, employment opportunities, re-education, training, career development reduced. It is all weakens social security of women. This is a result of reduced attention to the problem from the side of the state and civil society, and of the citizens attitude their own.

The current integration processes on the former Soviet Union are analyzed at this article. It is noted in particular, that integration is being developed rapidly, but its driving force for Russia in most cases is political need rather than economic expediency. As much that circumstance makes integration processes unstable, which are influenced both by inner regional political events and external political factors rather than economic ones. There is an attempt to prove the usefulness of development and implementation of the common economic policy within the analyzed integrating country group and first of all in real economy spheres, lead to strengthen the economic interdependency of EEU member states. It has to have a positive effect on integration union stability and as aftermath to enhance external economic security of Russian Federation, which is the integrator country.

This article deals with the analysis of the Russian natural gas market development. Today in terms of the complicated relations between Russia and countries that imposed sanctions against Russia due to the Ukrainian crisis this problem is especially important. The main aims of the article are: to analyze the global natural gas market; to reflect the importance of European market saving for Russia’s gas producers, the threats analysis for the Russian natural gas market both in spheres of external relations with key European partners and in the spheres of the alternative energy sources development; to considerate the prospects of the new ways of Russia’s natural gas external relations development.

In article are considered problems of progress of the world derivative market which for last years has increased volume of the turn up to catastrophically huge parameters are analyzed, significantly higher than world GDP. It calls into question reliability of a world financial system as the vast majority of these financial tools addresses on the market and consequently is not a subject to any regulation or the control. The decision of these problems lays, in opinion of the author, in creation of uniform system of an exchange turn of all types of derivative financial tools, that should match the volume-produced derivatives and real underlying assets, underlying.

The Nordic countries are among the European leaders of innovative development. The most important activity of the authorities is to create conditions for the development of successful innovative enterprises. The article examines the relationship of input and resulting indicators of innovative development of the Scandinavian countries, conducted appropriate quantitative evaluation. The analysis of the application of various tools to stimulate innovation shows that public support in the Nordic countries is not confined to the allocation of grants and subsidies for R & D, and covers a range of measures aimed at the development of education, support for small and medium-sized businesses, the development of innovative infrastructure.

The paper presents simple methods of forecasting volatility and correlation of relative changes of price based on exponential smoothing. As an example, the problem of dynamical mean-variance futures hedging of a position is considered. Effective adaptive strategies of portfolio risk management together with comparative analysis are illustrated by a concrete example. It is shown that this scheme of control may be generalized to the case of investment portfolio.