Sanctions regimes are a factor in Russia’s development for many years. The state as a whole is ready to repel new threats. However, the consequences of sanctions, as well as ways to overcome them, are pronounced regional in nature. The role of St. Petersburg in improving industrial policy and import substitution is very great. For cities of the rank of St. Petersburg, special economic regimes adopted in relation to Russia are not only new challenges, but also the possibility of accelerated development.

Aims: identification of the specifics of the role of the executive authorities of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus in the actualization of the Union patriotic agenda.

Methods: informal content analysis of documents, content analysis of the content of Internet resources, formal legal method, methods of comparative and multilevel analysis.

Results and discussion: The conceptual foundations of the phenomenon of «patriotism» in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus are investigated through the prism of the existing functionality of executive authorities. The equivalent position of the countries regarding the semantics of the concept of «patriotism» is revealed along with national trends aimed at supporting various initiatives focusing on issues of patriotic education. The correlation of autonomous state processes in line with patriotism with collegial decisions of Russia and Belarus at the union level on the issue under consideration is shown. The concept of «patriotism» is defined through the prism of the modification of the paradigm of political processes, including at the site of the USBR, taking into account external challenges and threats.

Conclusion: The Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus are traditional partners, whose interaction initially had a pronounced axiological aspect. Modern realities in general, increasing external pressure encourage the mobilization of all resources to strengthen the anti-crisis potential and socio-political consolidation. The official discourse and practical events within the framework of the Union State demonstrate the actualization of a new paradigm and integration mechanisms for the formation and strengthening of the Union patriotic agenda and the policy of patriotic education. Interdepartmental communications are of particular importance here. In general, the area under study remains in the field of action of national and interstate mechanisms.

The current conditions of the socio-economic development of Russia are characterized by a series of macroeconomic shocks that have generated turbulence and instability of the national economy. The consequence of this is the formation of new threats and the weakening of the economic security of the country. The changed situation requires new state policy measures to ensure the sustainability of the national economy and achieve national economic security. The authors postulate the idea that an effective measure of this kind of policy is to stimulate the rapid development of industry. The purpose of the study is to analyze the impact of sanctions on national economic security and substantiate recommendations for improving state regulation of industrial development in modern and future conditions. Research methods: comparative, retrospective, structural and economic-statistical analysis, situational modeling and institutional design. The article examines changes in Russian industry, considering the priority of ensuring national economic security, as a result of which its sluggish structural and quantitative dynamics are revealed. In this regard, the need to intensify the state industrial policy and give it an active character is shown. It is recommended to strengthen planned regulators in the economy and create planned mechanisms for managing the development of Russian industry.

The article is devoted to the consideration of two conceptual approaches to assessing the state and prospects for the development of economic entities in the real sector of the economy on the example of the so-called “golden rule” of the economy and the balanced scorecard. The relevance of the material of the article lies in the fact that the borrowed foreign methodology for studying the actual state of the enterprise, however, allows not only to assess the production and human potential of an economic entity in dynamics of the analyzed period, but also to assist in the development of enterprise development plans for the future of various durations and the development of an individual development strategy in a particular market space in the areas of investment, innovative improvement, marketing policy development, corporate culture, increasing market activity, strengthening business reputation and competitive positions. The purpose of the study is to test the effectiveness of the methodology of both approaches and the effectiveness of the tools used on the examples of enterprises in the real sector of the economy. The index method of statistical research was used as a toolkit when fulfilling both the golden rule and the balanced system of standard technical and economic indicators. The calculations are summarized in tables, illustrated with graphic drawings. The results of the analysis are discussed and commented on taking into account the specific characteristics of the sectoral activities of the selected economic entities. The article draws the necessary conclusions regarding the similarities and differences of the considered methodologies and assesses the prospects for their use in solving applied problems of analysis.

This article discusses strategic approaches to ensuring technological sovereignty in the energy industry. Special attention is paid to the development of the Russian standardization system for oil and gas equipment and technologies based on the established Institute of Oil and Gas Technological Initiatives, which includes Russian and foreign oil and gas companies. Effective forms and methods of implementing import substitution programs, consolidating industry demand for oil and gas equipment and technologies, preparing standards and conducting conformity assessments of enterprises on them, as well as possible options for international cooperation based on the creation of a unified legal field in the field of standardization are proposed. The research carried out by the author made it possible to formulate strategic priorities for the implementation of domestic technological policy in the oil and gas complex, aimed at solving topical issues of import substitution and ensuring technological sovereignty. Ensuring technological sovereignty in the energy sector is a strategic task that requires consolidation of efforts at the state, industry and corporate levels of management.

The article analyzes the results of the study of the content and structure of public servants’ representations about the most characteristic personal and activity properties of modern Russian leaders. The relevance of the research is determined, on the one hand, by the requirements of modern management practice to the structure of personal and activity characteristics of managers at all levels and in any field, and on the other hand, by the significance of social representations as subjective factors in the formation of relations between participants in managerial interactions and increasing the productivity of their joint activities. A questionnaire based on the method of free descriptions was used as a diagnostic tool. When processing the received data, content analysis and a set of statistical methods were used. The concepts identified with the help of content analysis describe the personal and activity properties of the head, which act as subjective factors that contribute to or hinder the implementation of the functions of the head as a subject of management. The analysis and generalization of the research results made it possible to obtain a psychological portrait of a modern Russian leader from the position of civil servants. It is shown that the most characteristic for the modern Russian leader in the view of the study participants are personal and activity properties related to the spheres of goal-setting and goal-attainment, communication and interaction and subjectivity. The hierarchically organized structure of representations of civil servants about the most characteristic personal and activity properties of modern Russian leaders is described. It is established that the core of ideas includes seven characteristics of a modern Russian leader (purposefulness, competence, education, responsibility, ability to assume the function of a leader, determination, sociability), which are complemented by personal and activity properties included in the semi-periphery of ideas (authoritarianism, benevolence, charisma, fairness, activity, self-confidence, stress tolerance, demanding, honest). It is also shown that part of the periphery of the ideas of the study participants are personal and activity characteristics, which largely contradict those that entered the core and semi-periphery. The practical significance of the research is connected with the fact that the identification of the content and structure of ideas about the most characteristic personal and activity properties of modern Russian leaders opens up great prognostic opportunities for use in the framework of personnel work, as well as in the process of individual counseling of management personnel and psychological support of their professional activities. 

Social credit management is a global issue, has become an important aspect of the economic development of various countries. In the process of social transformation in modern China, the social credit management system has undergone three stages of evolution: from scratch to existence, from existence to reality, and from reality to refinement. Based on the review of the transformation of market order and the construction of social credit system in China, this paper makes a systematic analysis of its main content and internal logic. From the perspective of Huntington’s “political decline” and other Chinese and foreign theories, this paper discusses the relationship between the three main bodies of social credit construction — market, society, government and market order respectively, in an attempt to provide inspiration and ideas for the construction of China’s future social credit system.

This article discusses the process of digitalization of the communicative space between the state and society in modern Russia. From the point of view of the concepts of “new public management” and “service state”, the stages of the formation of e-government are studied. The reasons and prerequisites that led to the formation of the concept of digital public admin- istration are also studied. The political and institutional benefits and prospects for the develop- ment of new interactive formats and digital technologies used by government bodies in the practice of their interaction with the population are analyzed. On the basis of the study, the authors conclude that digital technologies are a modern and inevitable multifunctional addition to the large-scale institutional environment of the Russian political system, which requires changes in the qualitative and quantitative representation of existing political institutions, as well as harmonization of the infrastructure and all organizational structures of the state. The reported study was funded by Foundation for the Development of Scientific Research and Applied Developments of NWIM RANEPA

The aim of the article is to contribute to a better understanding of the literature in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) policy and to demonstrate the possibilities of using software for automated processing of information arrays loaded from bibliographic databases for bibliometric analysis of this complex interdisciplinary research field.

Methods. First, we use a descriptive analysis of articles and authors to define what “AI policy” is and the main directions of this research field. Secondly, we define the conceptual structure of the research field using bibliometric analysis, which allows us to create a map of the main and especially important topics of study. These themes have been analyzed and grouped. Third, we identify areas for future research.

Results. In total, 1545 publications were analyzed from the Google Scholar database for the period 1968–2022. The obtained results testified to the possibility of effective use of special software for the scientific trends analysis

Conclusion. The qualitative interpretation of the results made it possible to propose several areas of research that should be developed in the future. The first notable observation is the paucity of research examining AI policy and its quality in the face of geopolitical shock. The second research observation is that there is little research on the effects assessment of AI policies.

The article highlights the actual problem of improving state policy in the field of conservation of architectural heritage. The main content of this study is an analysis of the structure of state authorities and local self-government involved in the protection of architectural heritage. The authors turn to the positive experience of China, Japan and the USA including the best practices of the United States in the field of conservation of architectural heritage by local governments which are actively involving civil society in the work. Special emphasis is placed on the attitude of Chinese state authorities to antiquities as a source of wisdom and sanity, contributing to the “Great Revival of the Chinese Nation”. The authors considered the initiative of Japan to take under local authorities’ protection entire groups of architectural buildings of special historical value. As a result of the study, some principles of the state policy of China, Japan and the USA in the field of conservation of architectural heritage were substantiated. The principles would be appropriate and applicable in domestic practice, namely, the high degree of popularization and education of the population in matters of architectural heritage protection, the democratic nature of the management of architectural heritage objects, the creation by public authorities of favorable conditions for attracting non-governmental organizations, the possibility of organizing a system of “protected areas of a complex of historical buildings”, the autonomy of local self-government bodies, etc.

This article discusses the process of recruiting and ways to implement their own social capital of representatives of the cultural and educational elite in the political space. In particular, based on the results of a study of the biographies of representatives of the cultural and educational elite present in government bodies on the example of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation and the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, the author demonstrated the process of deploying types of careers in the political space. Based on the research conducted by the author, examples of successful “transit” of one’s own cultural capital into the political field and back are presented. It has been shown that the recruitment of the cultural and educational elite implies a complex system of actions, suggesting how representatives of the cultural, scientific, and at the same time educational community are recruited into the political space.

The Kyrgyz model of export, for example of agricultural products, often demonstrates its organizational weakness which is not stimulating the economy of the country as a whole. This article shows the example of the Japanese general trading companies which successfully developed their own model of optimized outer trade in the context of Chandler’s industrial organization theory.