No S5 (2013)

The article presents the problems of coordination of public policies designed to achieve short-term social and economic goals and the objectives of the medium-and long-term socio-economic development. The author highlighted by the example of Russia and the countries of the European Union that the choice of instruments of public policy used for current problems can build up additional risks in the longer term (such as the threat of a debt crisis as a result of critical financing of anti-crisis programs etc.). In this respect, the article presents an approach aimed at ensuring long-term stability of development on the basis of the analysis of options for short-term public policy with regard to possible future risks.

The author analyzes the new economic situation, which formed in the period of the global crisis and affected the interaction between Russia and the EU. The article is about the new role of the EU in the world economy, a number of internal problems in Europe and emerging political and economic relations of Russia with the European countries and China. The author talks about the extent to which these new circumstances may affect the prospects of relations between Russia and the EU.

At the least there are four versions of the expert community concerning the meaning and the role of BRICS. The first opinion is the opinion that it is just unable to function political party — the dead birth child. The second one opinion is that it is clearly Chinese project, that is useful for China and is made up only for promotion of Chinese interests. The third one opinion is that this project is aimed against USA, the new tool of the developing countries fight. The forth one opinion is that this is the process of the new word regime creation, the new world architecture. Article is dedicated to the question of BRICS role and the perspective of its development.

During the pre-industrial period the variation of Global Surface Air Temperature on 1 °C change Global Mean Sea Level on 24,79 m (SL < 0) and in the modern time — 7,5 m (SL > 0). For the Global Warming period the rising rate of the Global Mean Sea Level will slowing down in 3,3 times simultaneously increases the Global Surface Air Temperature rate in 3,3 times. In the present time the Global Surface Air Temperature is 0,8 °C higher then pre-industrial level that will lead to the sea-level rise on 6 m. The EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change assume that the global warming must be limited to below 2 °C above pre-industrial level, that within some ages will lead to the sea-level rise on 15 m (15 times grater than for the A1B scenario, with the Sea-level rise up to 1 m). So in the future conditions the EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change do not assume rapid climate changes that will significantly increase the economic losses from Sea Level Rise.

The article shows the main approaches towards global education space understanding and the position of leading countries in international education exchange as well as under the Bologna process. By the author opinion amongst the main reasons which drive the foreign students to choose the university are working language of the curse, country ranking, HEIs reputation, tuition fee and cost of living, competence requirements compatibility. Based on his analyses the author had defined the main natural problems of Russia positioning in the global educational space and has proposed some perspective directions to attract foreign students to Russia.

The paper presents global trends associated with changes in approaches to financing higher education system. The author describes the modern mechanisms of state funds allocation, the forms of attracting resources from extra-budgetary sources. The paper describes theadvantages and disadvantages of the traditional model of higher education funding and indirect financing model based on demand. The studyis based on data from the OECD report about the education expenditure in different countries. According to the study the author concludes that the combination of different financing tools is an important condition for the development of higher education in the world.

The article presents the analysis of the organization of the public procurement in developed countries such as USA, UK, France, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The author highlighted positive aspects of the organization of the public procurement in these countries, which can be used in Russia stage by stage: planning, placing, assessment and implementation control. Some conclusions and recommendations are formed for raising the economic efficiency of the public procurement sector in Russia.

This article describes the government program of the development and implementation and analyses the government program components (Departmental Target Programme). The main purpose of the program is to concentrate resources to achieve specific goals and objectives of state police issues. This article examines Federal Target Programmes in key areas and the amount of budget allocation for them as well as the dynamics of funding government programs.

The use of business intelligence is one of the ways to overcome the information asymmetry of the market, market-based instruments.

The description of intellectualization of modern economy is given through the example of the Siberian Federal District regions. The content of trend change from economy of knowledge to innovations in oil and gas sector of economy is concretized. The instruments of financing the innovative activity within the framework of the «Strategies of socio-economic development of Siberia till 2020» are revealed.

The article reveals the economic content of the “public-private partnerships” (PPP) and its role in ensuring the competitiveness of state in the international scene. The author cites widespread PPP forms, methods and instruments of PPP projects financing. The paper contains examination of key factors constraining the development of public-private partnership in Russia at present. The article identifies the major areas of public-private partnership environment modernization. The development of these areas will attract new sources of funding for Russian PPP projects.

In the world has developed a completely new situation in 1991 as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since then, a strategic priority for US is to prevent the emergence of a new rival endangering them comparable to the threat posed by the Soviet Union during the period from 1945 to 1991. Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and defining the structuring element of the international relations was the strategy of the Obama administration, which is called “the turn toward Asia”, combining economic, financial, trade, military and diplomatic aspects. It can be viewed from two standpoints: first, the “official”, takes into account primarily the economic aspects of this strategy, which corresponds to absolute priority re-employment in the United States by new industrialization of the country, which was determined by the Obama administration. For a second, highly geopolitical point of view, the basis of this strategy are the relations between the US and China, this does not prevent the further reduction of the role of both: the European Union and Russia.

Статья посвящена анализу отличительных особенностей подходов России и Алжира к поставкам сжиженного природного газа на европейские рынки. Авторами проведена работа по анализу основных статистических данных по запасам СПГ по странам, сферам использования СПГ, самым крупным производителям и потребителям. В статье авторы также дали оценку ситуации на европейском рынке СПГ, определили основных поставщиков ЕС и основные характеристики подходов России и Алжира к поставкам СПГ.

The article deals with Russiaand EU’s collaboration in electroenergetics. The article gives characteristic of this branch in Russia focusing on main indicators such as types of power plants, energy output, labor productivity in the branch, energy intensity, capitalization and investments amounts. Problem topics are divided on technological and institutional with the further ranking of all problems of the branch in these two groups. Perspectives for development of the branch are analyzedfocusing on Russia and EU’s collaboration in electroenergy sphere.

The article is concerned to trade relations specificity between Russia and the EU countries in and around exchange of high-technology products, by example the space industry in point of view of the current legislation. The current situation in trade relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation is characterized. Arguments for the possibility of considering the space industry as a key high-tech is given. The specificity of international trade in goods and services for space purposes is revealed. The examples of the implementation of space projects between Russia and the EU is considered. The main problems in the implementation of future cooperation between the EU and Russia in space projects and the ways of their possible solutions is sorted out.