It is gratifying that the national philanthropy traditions today are gaining momentum. The foundation for folk traditions revival “National St. Tryphon Foundation” carries out charitable activities in several areas — social programs funding, philanthropy in the cultural field, as well as support of society spiritual revival. In his interview with the “ES” magazine the Chairman of the board of trustees of the National St. Tryphon Foundation Andjey Malchevsky dwelled on charitable projects of the Foundation within the spiritual and moral revival and integration into the cultural heritage of the own people, upbringing respect for the history of the country.

The article examines the period of the Soviet banking system transformation and represents an overview of the new audiobook “History of the first banking five-year plan, listened to and recorded by the chronicler Nicholay Krotov”.

The article is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of introducing Prohibition in Russia.

Building a future is characterized by way intelligibility, by reverse manner of management tasks solution, by taking into account latent factors, by instability and poor convergence of progress towards the objectives processes. This paper proposes a cognitive mechanism for future planning support with ensuring its semantic interpretation and integrity preservation. It speeds up and improves the quality of forecasts, planning and actions.

The article discusses the problem of land resources use in agricultural enterprises. It dwells on the issues of production factors interaction and their impact on the efficiency of agricultural land utilization. It identifies production parameters of land resources utilization in the operating cycle of the company. A model of an agricultural enterprise with an indicative value of the industrial complex center of inertia is proposed.

Opening address of editor-in-chief.

“The status of a major military power is the basis of our sovereignty. And this status includes not only the real military potential, but also accumulated reputation” — said a prominent political scientist, presidium chairman of the Expert council under the chairman of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, president of the National Strategy Institute Mikhail V. Remizov in his interview with Alexander Ageev. According to him, due to the Crimean events, the Russian army is perceived today as a highly professional even by malevolent persons.

Military use of pilotless vehicle (PV) — is it the only way to return the invested money, time and talents? Is it really so necessary for us to see civil drones in the skies of Russia? If yes, what should we do for the development of civil PV market in Russia in the nearest future?

How the Russian power engineering will behave under international sanctions conditions? How to execute introduction of new technologies, introduce new energy capacities and at that intelligently generate tariffs and not to rob the own people? What awaits Russia and its energy industry in the future? These and many other questions are examined by scientific director of the Institute of energy economics and housingcommunal complex, deputy Minister of Energy of Russia (1996 – 2003), former Board of Directors Chairman of RAO “UES of Russia” Victor Kudriavy in the interview with “Economic Strategies”.

In modern conditions criticism of “raw bias” of the Russian economy is growing from the part of representatives of a number of “scienceintensive industries” the image of which is formed primarily by Russian defence-industrial complex, and the main customer is the Ministry of Defence. From the viewpoint of the author, the problem seems quite different. Large-scale production of oil, gas, ferrous, non-ferrous, rare metals and other types of mineral resources can be more knowledgebased, efficient and effective. Public and private investment (including foreign) in subsoil development will make Russia’s economy stronger and richer.