The territorial-political structure of the Russian Empire has been studied quite well. The challenge is adapting historical knowledge to current management practices. Russia was not an empire, but it was also not a classical federation. Approximately 35 % of the country was governed in special regimes. This design can be criticized, but this management model did not catalyze the disaster of the beginning of the 20th century. The causes of the crisis were related to public administration issues. In turn, the study of the territorial-political structure will reveal not only the weak, but also the strengths of the management model of imperial Russia.

   The article examines the key factors influencing the transformation of Russia’s space activities. At present, Russia is faced with a global political crisis, which makes it necessary to revise a number of principles and tasks for the implementation of space activities, as well as further prospects related to space exploration.

   The purpose of this study is to identify the impact of global challenges on the goals, principles, tasks and main priorities of the state policy of Russia in the field of space activities. ъ

   The methodological basis of the study was systemic, functional, comparative, normative-value, as well as prognostic methods.

   The author also came to the conclusion that the changing geopolitical situation requires adjustment of the main elements of the Russian space policy in the context of national interests.

   Over the past few years, there have been certain shifts in favor of the national agenda in the European Union. Similar divergences from the main goal of the EU are observed in the UK and Poland. The COVID-19 pandemic also revealed the mismatch between the interests of a united Europe and the national preferences of the participating countries.

   The purpose of the article is to determine the possibility / impossibility of realizing the national interests of “small states” — EU members in the formation and implementation of a single community policy.

   To achieve the goal, it is necessary to establish the existence of different interests of states within the EU, the possibility of the participating countries to influence the development of the policy of the Union as a whole, the role of “small states” in the process under consideration. Applying a regional approach and narrowing the study to a single country (the Republic of Latvia), as well as applying methods of analysis and comparison, the nature of the relationship between the policies of the European Union and individual countries is revealed. The experience of the Republic of Latvia has shown that the state, which is most dependent on the economy and the general policy of the union, builds its own relations with the EU, relying mainly on the interests of “donor countries”. This dynamics is also manifested in international commercial relations, influencing the state of some sectors of the economy, as well as the economic situation of individual cities. Despite some negative points, mainly related to the economic indicators of individual industries, the participating countries do not deviate from the policy of European integration. Civil society, for the most part, also chooses the opportunities provided by the European Union. The challenges that the European community faced over time are being resolved. The Government of the European Union speaks openly about the existing problems, which are also related to the solution of common problems, and tries to solve them in a timely manner and by common efforts.

   The paper is devoted to the analysis of the process of political communication in the conditions of networkization of public space. The sign-symbolic level of political communication is considered on the example of the content-semantic filling of the image of a regional political leader.
   The purpose of this research is to analyze the content of the political image of the leader and to identify the presence or absence of manifestation of the effect of networking in it.

   The objectives of the study are to study the goals, the principles of their implementation and the features of communication with other representatives of power and society, which are presented in the content of the image of a political leader.
   The study uses a set of empirical methods, including non-directional quantitative content-analysis, network data analysis and linguistic analysis. The results of the content analysis are displayed on the tag cloud, and the results of the network analysis are displayed on the thematic graph. The theoretical basis of the study was the theory of the information society and such concepts as “image”, “image-role construct”. According to the results of the study of the text array, which included two large, detailed interviews with the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region G. S. Nikitin in 2019 and 2020, it was concluded that one of the most common image-role constructs in an interview in 2019 were the following: “leader-industrialist” (aimed at the development of industrial production); “leader-builder” (in particular, he is ready to develop the construction industry of the region); “leader-organizer” (open to new projects and challenges, focused on the successful organization and holding of festive events dedicated to the anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod), “leader-athlete” (advocates for the development of sports in the region). The most common image-role construct in an interview in 2020 was such a meaningful and semantic construct as “leader-manager” (an effective manager who manages the region by coordinating actions with various structural divisions of the government and municipalities). Based on the results of a generalizing analysis, the conclusion was drawn that in the content of the image of a political leader, there was a certain change in the manifestation of the effect of networkization from the polythematic and heterarchy of key topics (in 2019) to the decentralization of the symbolic subject of decision-making and implementation (in 2020).

   Topicality. The growing instability of economic systems, the transition of the global market space from a stationary state to a large extent during an extraordinary period are accompanied by an intensification of interregional and international competition for resources and factors of expanded reproduction. This is associated with such significant structural changes and transformations that they actualize the search and justification of new strategic vectors of socio-economic development of national economies for the period of “post-normality” and a longer extraordinary period. It is the application of an effective strategizing methodology that allows the developers of any strategy to focus on the search for new strategic opportunities and breakthrough transformations, focuses on determining and choosing the right and long-term vector of development of the strategizing object. The authors emphasize that “new horizons” strategies or innovative development strategies based on technological competitive advantages are the most effective, which, in the context of limited access to imports of high-tech developments and the impossibility of their cross-border transfer, in particular to Russia, forms a predominant focus on the avant-garde domestic technological developments in the justification of strategic priorities. This causes the activation of processes to form the national economy technological sovereignty and emphasizes its strategic importance.
   Aim. Determine the basic directions of strategizing the national economy during a period of burgeoning technological sovereignty.
   Tasks. Designate the strategic role of scientific and industrial sectors in the process of national economy transition to technological independence, formulate the financial and the human resources development aspects of strategizing the national economy during a period of burgeoning technological sovereignty.
   Methods. The scientific research is based on the general theory of Strategy and strategizing methodology developed by the Center for Strategic Research at the Institute of Mathematical Research of Complex Systems and the Economic and Financial Strategy Department at Moscow School of Economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University with the leadership of Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor Vladimir L. Kvint.
   Results. The authors have shown the relationship between strategizing and the processes of formation the national economy technological sovereignty, clarified the role of industrial strategizing in the national economy during a period of burgeoning technological sovereignty, formulated key aspects of the financial strategy and the labor potential development strategy of the national economy during a period of burgeoning technological sovereignty.
   Conclusions. The process of forming the national economy during a period of burgeoning technological sovereignty must comply with the strategizing methodology, follow the long-term regulated stages and methodological principles for the development and implementation of an appropriate national strategy for the transition to technological independence. Particular attention should be paid to industrial and financial strategizing of the transition to technological independence and strategizing the labor potential development of the national economy during a period of burgeoning technological sovereignty.

   This article considers the main problems of further development of cooperation between the SCO member states against the background of the movement of the world community towards multipolarity. The justification of the need to revise traditional approaches to assessing the results of reforms in the post-Soviet territories on the example of Uzbekistan is given. The strategic development goals of the Republic of Uzbekistan that have already been achieved are analyzed, the prospects for strategic cooperation between Uzbekistan and the main SCO member states are outlined. Based on the conducted research the authors conclude that Uzbekistan’s participation in the SCO is a strategic factor in strengthening the economic, energy, military and demographic security of the region.

   The purpose of the article is to assess whether Russia is a market economy according to the set of criteria.

   In the event that Russia loses the status of a country with a market economy, a statistical hypothesis was tested about a significant difference in the average values of national rates of US anti-dumping duties for market and non-market economies. The status of Russia is analyzed based on EBRD data for 2021–2022, the 2021 report of the WTO Secretariat on the trade policy of the Russian Federation. The claims expressed by the EU and the United States regarding government procurements and localization requirements at meetings of the WTO Committees on Trade in Goods and on Trade-Related Investment measures in 2020–2021 are considered. Anti-dumping duties were estimated based on the US notification of anti-dumping investigations for 10.01.2021–30.06.2021. Methods of mathematical statistics were used, as well as the IBM SPSS statistics system. According to the EBRD, Russia as a “sustainable market economy” is rated at an average of 5.9 points out of 10 possible. A lag in terms of integration was noted. The pricing policy does not cause complaints from the WTO members, however, the policy of government procurements, localization and import substitution of the Russian government does not meet the expectations of the WTO member countries. It was revealed that the exclusion of foreign manufacturers in the widely interpreted “government procurements” is the weakest element among those assessed. The specific obligations of the protocol on Russia’s accession to the WTO (paragraph 99 of the Report of the working group) “to make purchases, if they are not intended for state needs, guided by commercial considerations, without interfering with competition from enterprises of other WTO member countries for participation in such procurements” are violated. The impending loss of market status with the US could increase anti-dumping duties on Russian exports by 287 percentage points. The revealed upward trend in national rates of anti-dumping duties for countries with non-market economies allows us to conclude that the level of discrimination against countries with non-market economies is increasing. The hypothesis that the difference between the average values of the national rates of US anti-dumping duties for market and non-market economies is significant is confirmed.

   Innovation management is a priority type of management implemented in highly competitive markets. Despite the relative stability of the content and structure of innovation management, it can be implemented in various variants and is subject to evolution depending on the state and
trends of the environment. Timely identification of prerequisites for adjusting the content and structure of innovation management is an important condition for ensuring the competitiveness of enterprises, regions and the country as a whole.

   The hypothesis of research is the possibility of determining the quantity and interrelation-ships of the principles of innovation management depending on it qualitative attributes, as well as the attributes of the environment.

   The research methods are methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, as well as classification, and the tools are binary matrices that provide for the joint use of two qualitative attributes of the studied objects and it dichotomies.
   The subject of research is the structure of the principles of innovation management implemented at the institutional level.
   The result of research is the structure of principles of innovation management, characterized by the validity of its hierarchy, the quantity of principles, as well as the relationships between them, due to the combination of qualitative attributes of studied objects and it dichotomies.
   The obtained results make it possible to reduce costs, time, as well as lost profits for the creation of innovations due to clear structuring of principles of innovation management at the management levels of an economic entity and the implementation of systematic approach to innovation management. In addition, the article lays the foundations for the design of innovation management systems using computer software.

   The dynamism of the economic environment, associated with a change in the group of strategic factors and the resource base, leads to a forced reduction in the required time to search for and justify strategic decisions regarding the implementation of cardinal opportunities, while the cost of a mistake increases. In this context, the choice and justification of the long-term vector and the object development trajectory, which corresponds to the process of developing and further implementing the strategy, acquires the highest importance.

   It becomes necessary to know and apply verified and reasonable approaches to strategizing, on the contrary, the lack of understanding or the use of approaches and tools that do not meet the requirements can lead to methodological errors that have long-term negative consequences for the strategizing object. In turn, industries are one of the prospective strategizing objects, and it is they who are able to act as drivers for the development of economic systems as a whole. In order to eliminate errors and reduce impractical and methodologically incorrect documents on industrial development that do not have a strategic character, it is proposed to systematize and clearly regulate the sequence of industrial strategizing, which is the purpose of this scientific study.

   Since the most critical errors occur at the initial stages of strategizing, to a greater extent this research is focused on the formation of the concept — the core block of any strategy. In accordance with this, the scientific article presents the main stages of industry strategizing, describes in detail the essence and procedure for the formation of the concept of industry strategy.

   The article examines the personal-psychological approach of Russian philosophers to understanding the content of social concepts. In particular, attention is drawn to the attempt of M. A. Bakunin and S. N. Bulgakov to show the conditionality of K. Marx’s teachings about the dictatorship of the proletariat with the characteristic features of his personality. The idea is expressed that the views of Bakunin himself are largely due to the features of his personality. The article also discusses a more general provision on the importance of the approach from the point of view of human nature in understanding the vitality of general sociological ideas. As an example of the application of this approach, Bakunin’s criticism of the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat, based on his idea of the natural motivation of human behavior in specific life circumstances, is considered. The author concludes that psychological interpretation can complement the sociological construction in terms of its conformity with human nature, characteristic of it system of behavioral motivation. In addition, personal-psychological justification allows us to look at political or sociological concepts as cultural phenomena that explicitly or implicitly contain certain value attitudes.

   In this article, the authors structure and significantly expand the theory of the typology of creative practices. The authors offer two groups of grounds for constructing a typology of creativity. The first group is socialization. Under the socialization foundations of creativity, the authors understand a set of social factors that contribute to or hinder the process of socialization of an individual as a subject of creative practices. The authors talk about socialization factors that contribute to and hinder the realization of creative potential and, accordingly, introduce new concepts, such as socialization harmonious (laminar, favorable) and socialization conflict (turbulent, unfavorable) creativity. The authors also distinguish the second group of grounds for the typology of creativity, namely, the factors of the social and political environment external to the creative subject. So, two types of realization of creative potential are distinguished, the authors designate them as societally favorable and societally unfavorable. As a result, the authors propose a three-dimensional typology of social trajectories of subjects of creative potential — creative social trajectories. The authors also propose a classification of creative potential according to the parameters of profile — non-core. The profile creative potential of an individual or group social subject is understood as the potential realized in the field of the main profile of his professional activity. Accordingly, non-core potential is realized either in leisure practices or in professional practices that are not related to the main profile of the subject’s professional activity. Based on the criterion of the nature of innovation contained in a creative product, the authors introduce a typological division into conformal and non-conformal/radical creativity. The concept of individual and group creativity is also introduced, the concepts of individual and group creative potential are described as well.

   The article substantiates the relevance of media design through the disclosure of the main trends in the development of the media industry: the growth of the media and entertainment industry market; the development of digital technologies. The concepts of “project”, “media”, “media project” are revealed. The interpretations of the concept of “media project” used by other authors are listed and analyzed. The main components of any project are revealed, namely the goal, deadlines and resources. The features of media projects are revealed: they can be oriented both to the market of goods and to the market of services; when developing them, it is necessary to find a balance between economic expediency and social mission; the result of a media project is that the media product is consumed in free time, that is, in leisure hours; the media product must be entertaining to some extent, due to the impact of the consumption economy; the media project is planned and implemented in conditions of: special dynamism and a high degree of uncertainty of the external environment, and also media convergences. The authors propose to introduce a new classification feature and types of media projects: “by media industry sector”: traditional, network, transmedia. The authors have identified a contradiction expressed in the fact that the quality of a media project does not guarantee the quality of a media product in a global sense — from the point of view of the intellectual development of society. The tendency of decreasing the quality of media products is revealed in detail and justified. Trends in the consumption of media products are considered: the media are becoming more and more entertaining; strengthening the primacy of the function of satisfying consumer requests before the function of education and upbringing; consumer expectations are simplified.

   This article informs of training as a form of «business game» for functioning regional contraterrorist commission of Russian Federation, as well estimation the certain level of terroristic threat for personal and authorities supposed to manage such a case. Some difficulties are being marked and ways to solve similar are shown. These training was used as an example in several regions of Russia and was a rather successful.

   This research article discusses national and regional strategic instruments to counteract the contingency period in the real estate market. A contingency period refers to a period of unreasonable price increases in the market, characterized by excessive investment due to long-term speculative expectations of investors.

   The aim of the study is to identify the most effective strategic means of counteracting various phases of the contingency period in the regional real estate market.

   The theoretical basis of the article is primarily strategy theory and strategizing methodology of Doctor of Economics, Professor V. L. Kvint. As a result of the analysis of possible national and regional strategic decisions affecting the real estate market during the contingency period, the most effective in the author’s opinion were selected. The arguments presented in the article underscore the need to establish effective systems for identifying signs of the occurrence of the contingency period, as well as for evaluating different scenarios of the functioning of the economic system during that period and for exiting from it.

   This article discusses the key aspects and prerequisites for the implementation of the Digital Municipality project at the North-Western Institute of Management of the RANEPA. The article analyzes various approaches to understanding the essence of the process of digital transformation of the municipality. The important components of the new paradigm of municipal government are considered. The main problems of digital transformation of municipalities are identified. The role of digital dialogue in the development of the municipality and its inhabitants is studied. As part of the study, an attempt was made to comprehend the role of digital technologies in improving management activities, and the need to implement the Digital Municipality project was substantiated.