The New Industrial Policy: a Roadmap Sketch

#5. Cultural Revolution

In fact, many Russian industries have been long operating under the WTO conditions, gradually gaining weight in the world “table of ranks”. To consolidate their position they had not only to change radically the industrial-technological structure, but also to master pretty tough methods of management and organization of commercial and legal services.

State of Foresight Studies in Russia

#4. Handful of Developments

Foresight differs from the well-known tools of scientific prediction as not only involves many interested social groups in forming the picture of foresight, but also encourages participants to actively pursue the changes predicted by themselves.

My Dear Old-Timers…

#4. Handful of Developments

Every nation, every people has got its own predestination in the global division of human missions. Ethnic society, formed in the territory of modern Russia, is first of all the shield and then the conscience and the soul of the whole civilization.

«Arab Spring» and Regime of Nuclear Non-Proliferation

#3. Green question

A state without nuclear potential is unable to provide adequate resistance to aggression and intervention. In this regard, it would make sense to try to introduce into international law the concept of guarantees to non-nuclear states from attack by nuclear powers with application of conventional weapons.

Globalism — a Multi-Polar World: the Future or the Past?

#3. Green question

The Great Spirit of Capitalism woke powerful creative forces of man. But at the same time it released the demons of personal success and enrichment, sworn by world religions. And along with the great human achievements they caused new disintegration of society into slaves and masters.

Reliable Eurasian Patent in the Piggy Bank of the Eurasian Economic Integration

#3. Green question

The value of patent information for innovation activity is well known: the invention is not born in an information vacuum and represents a step from the achieved level of technology. This step can be huge, and more modest in its significance, but both, being implemented, generate innovation.

The Present and the Future of the Light Industry

#3. Green question

Domestic light industry is constantly demonstrating increase in output, but in parallel much faster are increasing volumes of import. 80 per cent of the market we have given to who knows whom. If we look into the problem, it’s big money.

End of Catch-Up Model of Modernization and Search for New Ways

#3. Green question

Today’s concepts of modernization do not deny the necessity of borrowing the best practices of the East and the West, but in general focus on such methods of modernization, which keep in mind national goals and a variety of ways to achieve them, including the search for genuine methods.

Certificate of State Maturity

#3. Green question

Even the elected leader of the state may not become a spiritual and national leader of the people, if he forgets the commandment: “Not by their words, but for their deeds you recognize them”. In recent months, weeks and days we’ve heard a lot of words. What deeds will follow these words? A leader can obtain “certificate of state maturity” only for his deeds. There are many vital “subjects” in this “certificate”, but few textbooks have been written on them. And there are only two examiners – people and the time. The people in Russia were and are, but leaders have got very few time. Too late to learn.