Institute for Economic Strategies in the project “Strategic Matrix of Russia” again determines the most important strategic trends of the past 2013 by nine strategic matrix factors: governance, territory, natural assets, population, economy, culture and religion, science and education, armed forces, geopolitical environment.

What level of education, culture, morality, civic consciousness and patriotism of society members will meet the challenges of coming information age?

Many events became an unpleasant surprise, they pulled off the veil of illusions from the eyes: these were inactivity of authorities during the disaster in Krymsk and corruption scandals, which spilled through the country one after another, and the revealed ineffectiveness of many higher education institutions.

The state and the people deserve each other. And for the fact that we have now this kind of power, we have to thank all of us together.

“Classic” example of forcible change of socio-cultural, political, ethnic, national, religious identity, completed almost before our eyes, is the phenomenon of Kosovo.