The current global economic crisis witnesses the next technological revolution, meaning transition from economy of material benefits to the economy of intellectual wealth. Productive motor forces yield the palm to productive intellectual forces. Infrastructure undergoes significant changes, applying flat economy on a larger scale and replacing traditional clusters and industrial parks by global industrial centers, educational, financial and innovative supermarkets.

The article proposes a systematic, pragmatic and creative approach to the status and prospects analysis of the Russian economy development in the context of global instability. This approach is distinguished by understanding economic reality in all its complexity, characterized by nonlinearity, non-equilibrium and uncertainty of socio-economic development processes, by awareness of their laws. On the basis of its application the authors have developed proposals for implementing an integrated public policies system for development and modernization of the economy on the advanced structural and technological basis, the implementation of which will accelerate the pace of economic growth and will allow to pass on to innovative development.

The material was prepared in the framework of developing the RAS proposals to the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin by the expert group of RAS economists headed by Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC NK “Rosneft” academician A.D. Nekipelov, advisor to the President of the Russian Federation academician S.Y. Glazyev, director of the RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting academician V.V. Ivanter, etc. The main focus of the paper is made on the need to establish a strategic management system, capable to identify romising areas of economic growth and to guide the activity of state development institutions and economic regulation instruments to their implementation.

Nonlinear critical nature of economic and political processes dynamics has extremely updated the need for culturally deterministic advantages in managing political process in our country and abroad. It is proposed to get these advantages through pro-Russian civilization enculturation as the basis for realization of political development cultural formats, aimed at reprogramming and reimprinting of key matrices of culturalsemantic values, defining Russian civilization leadership in the world post-capitalist socio-cultural environment, which determines the problem solution of further Russia’s formation as a great power.

The article compares the causes and consequences of financial economic crises of 1991 and 2008 in Finland. The basic measures for stabilizing economic situation in the country are listed.

“Integration” project in the field of contemporary art is intended to describe with the help of artistic images language unification processes occurring in the post-soviet area.

The article proposes a systematic, pragmatic and creative approach to the status and prospects analysis of the Russian economy development in the context of global instability. This approach is distinguished by understanding economic reality in all its complexity, characterized by nonlinearity, non-equilibrium and uncertainty of socio-economic development processes, by awareness of their laws. On the basis of its application the authors have developed proposals for implementing an integrated public policies system for development and modernization of the economy on the advanced structural and technological basis, the implementation of which will accelerate the pace of economic growth and will allow to pass on to innovative development.

An electronic image of the underlying asset in the world economy is becoming stronger than real economic assets, thus defining the format for implementation of a new social quasi-reality model. Surrounding us economic reality is acquiring more and more probabilistic nature, passing from realistic-material sphere to virtual content. In these conditions, the main imperative of the new ontological basis of the world economic development is becoming “management of meaning” providing purposeful formation of a system methods for identification and interpretation of what is happening, serving as the source of action of economic agents.

The economic crisis of 2009 – 2014 in Russia and Ukraine is not a result of the global financial crisis impact. The continuing deterioration of the Ukraine and Russia’s economies is caused primarily by inadequate macroeconomic policy, which cannot be optimal due to institutional character of its origin.

The paper analyzes macroeconomic consequences of Ukraine’s entry into the WTO. The basic Ukraine’s сommitments taken while joining the WTO with respect to export and import regulations, access to services market, are listed. Conclusion is made that the impact of Ukraine’s entry into the WTO can be hardly considered as corresponding to the national interests of economic development, contributing to job creation and improving the national welfare.