The Russian academic journal

7-7

Authors: Alexey Fedorov

Today’s countries, including Russia, that took the independent path of development and integration into world community oftentimes face limits of development of their own institutes which are coping the western one. Most of those who are standing up for reforms, no matter in what environment, scientific or corporate, they are functioning categorically deny institutional reforms in principle. It’s of no consideration at all who will be in power in Russia — liberals or socialists — neither ministry of economics nor health ministry will disappear.

11-17

Authors: Dmitriy Maksimov, Igor Moshkin

Needs for creation of new forms of ownership for subjects of the Russian Federation, such as small business, it is caused not only development of the market relations, but also carrying out the actions provided by reform of the budgetary process that is economically expedient as emergence of a large number of new subjects of managing involves emergence of new workplaces, increase in receipts in budgets of all levels due to payment of taxes and fees. Development of small business is also necessary for large business as he at establishment of the coordinated communications with functional activity of subjects of small business takes considerable profit. Besides, it is necessary to consider that fact that development of sector of small business is a basic and objectively necessary element of social and economic system of the country, one of transition conditions to full market to the relations, innovative development of economy. Reform of the budgetary process offers enough prospects for financial support and financial regulation of sector of small business in subjects of the Russian Federation. It is caused by a significant amount of programs of support within introduction of program and target methods of planning and financing.

23-27

Authors: Javed Zafar

Geopolitics is the study of international relations and conflicts from geographical perspective, in other words it is also defined as the practice of states, competing for the dominance and control the territory. Central Asia, due to its geopolitical importance has always attracted the attention of all major schools of geopolitical thoughts especially, ‘the school of political landscape’ (English school) and school of geopolitical organism’ (German school). This region has also been the core of Russian and the former Soviet Union’s geopolitical imagination. Since the emergence of independent Central Asian States (CAS), struggle has erupted to control space in this region for hydrocarbon resources and various other reasons. Russia has reclaimed this region for controlling energy supply from the Central Asian Region (CAR) to the countries of Asia, Europe and other parts of the world. China is focusing on the energy resources of this region to reduce its energy dependency on Middle East and Africa countries. For China security of the import of the hydrocarbon resources through the Indian Ocean is also a reason to pay attention towards the CAR. The US and EU need central Asian energy to reduce dependency on Russian gas supply to Europe. Pakistan and India are also potential players in the central Asian energy game. These countries are also trying hard to engage but due to different geopolitical problems and difficulties have not been successful. Turkey, a west Asian country with rapidly growing economy is trying to tap central Asian energy with the help of Iran. Thus, a detailed analysis of the energy politics of global players in the Central Asia is the subject matter of this paper. Players in the region divided in three category, all three category power’s policies and achievement are discussed in the given paper. Methodology: The study is based on secondary data and information. The analysis is based on empirical, historical, comparative, descriptive methods and critical qualitative assessment of the events and political developments in the study region.

34-37

Authors: Igor Khalanskii

The article focuses at the analysis of the role, importance and future prospects of the SCO in Central Asian region in the context of strategic cooperation between Russia and China. There are three views presented within regional academic discourse on Russian- Chinese relations as “China-ally”, “China-enemy”, “China-partner-companion.” The first “China-ally” approach is based on a shared vision of the US as an enemy that lays the foundation for future cooperation between Russia and China. The second “Chinaenemy” approach assumes that China is alreasy causes a threat to Russia’s national interests. The third “China-partner-companion” approach focuses on the need for Moscow to combine flexibility and agility in the relationships with Beijing to explore opportunities to enhance Russia’s ability to cope with the Chinese challenge in the future, if any, will pose a threat. The article explores some aspects of accelerated growth of the Chinese armed forces, migration issues and economic expansion of China and its implications for cooperation between SCO member-states.

41-42

Authors: Andrey Karpov

Ongoing Ruble crisis reflects irrelevance of CRB’s policy measures. Tighter monetary policy and currency free float implemented by CRB to stabilize Ruble led to directly opposite result. Several months of “managed devaluation” changed into panic selloff in December 2014. The panic in the currency market took place despite massive FX reserves controlled by CRB and translated into serious economic distress. With key policy rate at 17% Russian economy is moving towards artificially depressed growth along with weak currency and high inflation. Stagflationary trap became a material risk for the economy. The main reason behind Bank of Russia’s policy choices is its commitment to market fundamentalism framework. CRB failed to recognize that its retracement from the currency market created far from equilibrium conditions and triggered irrational behavior of market participants along the board. Should external conditions remain hostile for Russian economy and oil prices keep moving lower CRB’s policy irrelevance will bring into question regulator’s credibility. That all might cause unnecessary damage to Russian economy.

52-54

Authors: Iuliia Zholobova

The paper proposes and justifies the necessity of the practical implementation of the concept of integrated greening economic activity of industrial enterprises of the region, is considered necessary for the implementation of this process, the mechanism based on the evaluation of the overall potential of industrial enterprises, taking into account environmental factors. Proposed as indicators of ecologically balanced development of the economy of the enterprise system, economic, resource and environmental ratings, including the degree to which the use of best available technologies, and also provides a number of concrete proposals for economic promotion of the use of best available technologies.

59-61

Authors: Sergey Vorontsov

Level of extremism in Russia is increasing steadily. One of the main reasons why is in the condition of value and regulatory vacuum (anomie) which is related to overcoming crisis developments by the society. The report states a set of core actions as a part of improvement of anti-extremist activity, including, careful definition of targeted audience for carrying out works on prevention extremism, development more effective methods of operational investigations, high-quality re-organization of work in the Internet, enhanced staff training and etc.

64-66

Authors: Andrey Fomenko

Modern problems of public safety connected with the spreading of cyberterrorism will be reviewed under this report. The legal status of crimes in the high-tech industry is reviewed. Main characteristics of crimes in the high-tech industry and specific versions of cyberterrorism are herein described. Main risks of society connected with potential threat of cyberterrorism have been defined.