Changing of a conjuncture index of “Economic strategy” (CIES) for the January – August 2015 is considered. The contribution of indicators of supply and demand in CIES is estimated. The analysis of industrial production is carried out.

An outstanding specialist in applied mathematics, interdisciplinary research, philosophy and methodology of science, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergei Pavlovich Kurdyumov used to say: “The future tenses the present and clarifies the past”. In addition, the next generations arrive and there is a desire to communicate them the results, hopes, dreams of the previous generations and, if possible, to protect them from already made mistakes. Just from this perspective now we would like to look at the scientific work of Sergei P. Kurdyumov, at the ideas put forward by him and being developed now by his scientific school.

The author dwells on the corporate governance as a tool of companies management. He is sure that corporate governance international standards should be adapted to the Russian practice. Long-term experience of cooperation with dozens of companies allowed him to elaborate a four-factor PhICS approach that allows to build up an individual corporate governance system in relation to a particular company and to choose from the theory of corporate governance only what really contributes to increase the company efficiency in a real business.

A review of the documentary research of V.O. Pechatnov and I.E. Magadeev “Stalin’s correspondence with Roosevelt and Churchill during the Great Patriotic War”.