Republic of Belarus is an average by the size the sovereign state forming the strategy taking into account policy of the global players who are carried out in the East European region. The attitude towards Belarus of global actors (the USA, the EU, China and Russia) and the repertoire of steps taken by Minsk depend on a set of factors which analysis is carried out in the first part of the article. It is noted that Belarus as the player in the region of Eastern Europe has not completely created the policy yet. New opportunities for formation of the strategy of the Belarusian policy adequate to national interests have appeared because of revaluation of a role of Belarus as important donor of safety in the region against the background of efforts of Minsk on settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.

In the article, various approaches to an interpretation of the concept “information policy” are considered, and the author’s understanding of information policy of Russia in present period of oppositions of civilizations is given. Information policy is presented as activity for production, distribution and interpretation of information of which the synthesis of interests of government and civil society, which is the key to comprehensive safety of the country, has to be result. Information policy connects together the main paradigms of domestic and foreign policy of the state, representing the synthesized representation of their major components.

Measurement of size of tax burden as key indicator of quality of tax system is one of the most important problems of the state in the course of tax transformations and formation of priorities of economic development. However against the background of absence as official determination of tax burden of economy, and approved at the state level of an order of her calculation more and more distinctly the need for obtaining data on tax climate, comparable to other countries, for the country is shown that can be provided with application of the standard technique of assessment. In the article, features of assessment of tax burden by a technique of the International Monetary Fund are considered.

The article discusses the key APEC initiatives aimed at overcoming the negative effects of agrowth slowdown in the Asia-Pacific region during the post-crisis period due to internal and external factors. The priorities of the Forum's activities in this area include the provision of high-quality growth and socio-economic development of the region's economies.

This article is devoted to major measures undertaken in order to reform the EU macroeconomic policy as a result of Eurozone crisis. It is a highly crucial issue for academic research due to multiple problems that occurred in the Eurozone states as a result of the 2008 world financial crisis. It is also an interesting issue for research because of the EU’s activities targeted at insuring efficiency of the EU institutions and support of problematic member states. Research objective of this article is examination of the Eurozone crisis influence on the evolution of institutional aspects of the EU macroeconomic policy. The methodological basis of this research is composed of positive economics, comparative analysis, structural and functional analysis, and theoretical aspects of rational choice institutionalism. As a result of the research, it was demonstrated that internal debates within the EU had negative impact of the Eurozone crisis, institutional reforms undertaken to solve the crisis were not finalized, but eventually the European Union managed to find solutions to solve the EMU problems in the context of macroeconomic harmonization. The practical importance of this article is determined by evaluation of the current Eurozone situation and efficiency of institutional reforms.

The article presents characteristic evolution of the automotive industry Russian economy in the period of sanctions. The author considers the improvement of the strategic planning documents for progress in the development is very necessary. The author explored of possibilities using new methods of state regulation of the industry.

The article deals with topical at the moment for Russia risk factors companies’innovation activities-external and internal. External risk factors are studied on the basis of the division into two groups: a) macroeconomic risk factors, the impact of which increased during the period of the «second wave» of the financial crisis (since 2014) and the introduction of the sanctions regime; b) the effect of which has a profound institutional framework in the Russian and global economy. There are four concurrent restrictive conditions that have a negative impact on the introduction of innovative risks of doing business in Russia: the inability to get in a joint operation or acquire technology and equipment, which represent the achievements of the world scientific and technological progress in a number of sectors; reducing the availability of long-term foreign credit; reduction of budget expenditures allocated to financial support for innovation companies; negative impact on the nature of demand for innovative products from the Russian Federation, implemented in major foreign economies. Also the study views a number of institutional constraints, such as the unavailability of long-term loans at low interest rates in domestic Russian economy and the narrowing of the global market of portfolio investment.The article studies the possibilities of neutralizing and reducing risks. In order to reduce the external innovation risks caused by the sanctions, the Government of RF and major Russian companies should submit such proposal of joint projects, which would be necessary and beneficial to Western partners. The ways of reducing the risk by the internal sources of innovation are presented. As an example, there is considered an interaction in the sphere of technology transfer with leading companies from abroad in the timber industry. It is viewed as a basis for a comprehensive approach to reduce the risks of innovation.

APEC has a comprehensive development agenda whose importance and scale has been rising steadily over the recent years. Russia has been actively involved into APEC’s work in this field. However, it can be argued that its potential for participation remains largely underutilized. This paper provides examples showing how Russia can go beyond those parts of the APEC development agenda it has been already active at considering both domestic development priorities and its economic interests in Asia-Pacific.

Innovative and effective energy sector creation is a key point for international companies in time of resource globalization. Energy efficiency police is anissue of resource-saving . The target of this article is to work out the methods of energy efficiency increase during all energy production and consumption steps (as an example, international company).

Today the expansion of foreign suppliers` access to public procurement is becoming more pronounced tendency in international trade. This is reflected both in the growing participation in WTO Government Procurement Agreement, and in negotiating government procurement commitments at the regional level. Given the protectionist policy of Russia in the field of public procurement and the objective necessity to intensify participation in various promising integration projects and initiatives, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, it is important to determine the most favorable format for cooperation with trade partners on public procurement issues.

The authors consider the existing communication strategies applied by public authorities for forming their own image, the media as the main tool of realization of communicative strategies and the correlation between the feasibility of the chosen communication strategy and the degree of public confidence in the government.

The article covers the main management principles in a higher educational institution (a conservatoire) in the context of the competitive advantages of a higher educational institution at the market of educational services and concerned market members. The transit of the higher educational institution to strategic planning for the purpose of the improvement of the management efficiency and the achievement of the results of the work is analyzed.

Today, it has become an active phase of a transition of companies operating in traditional industries into companies based on knowledge. Human capital is a key element of the knowledge economy. Competitive advantages of the economy, the possibility of its modernization in modern conditions is directly determined by the accumulation and involved in the country human capital. The most important characteristic of human capital is becoming a leader and companies with global strategic vision for the development of its human resources invest in the development of this competence.

Macroeconomic theories based on expectations of economic agents appeared at the end of the last century. There are various ways of defining these expectations, and in this paper we propose to estimate the economic expectations on the basis of official data about transactions in derivative financial instruments. Using data of trades on the Moscow stock exchange were analyzed arbitrage strategy spot-futures and futures-futures for the purpose of estimating inflation expectations of investors. To assess suggestions about the stability of the economy were considered options on futures on the RTS index and the volatility index, and the instability in some commodity markets is proposed to evaluate the open interest on futures.

In the article, the problem of reflection in scientific literature of history of museum affairs during the Great Patriotic War is considered. The main attention is concentrated on the analysis of the works devoted to the main activities of the central and provincial museums during the military period.

The article discusses the history of relations slavophiles Petersburg, St. Petersburg University professor Orest Fedorovich Miller (1833-1889) and Konstantin Nikolayevich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (1829- 1897) and Ivan Sergeyevich Aksakov (1823-1886). The article is used both published and not published materials, mainly correspondence of scientists. Estimates of the person and work of I. S. Aksakov from the St. Petersburg professors. Indicates that the St. Petersburg Slavophiles not only highly valued publicistics of I. S. Aksakov, but his active public and publishing activities.

The article analyzes the role and composition of youth organizations of Russia at the beginning of the 1920s. Examines the anarchist, social democratic, Orthodox, Zionist and scouting organizations of youth. The conclusion is that the elimination of the diversity of types of youth organizations throughout the 1920s and the introduction of a monopoly of the young Communist League has reduced the variation in youth socialization.

In article questions of history of creation of the Great Silk way are considered. Conditions for development of integration process are analyzed. The conclusion is drawn that Great the Silk way became a link between the East and the West and played a big role in forming of cultural, commercial and political connections between the people.

The article analyzes socio-political organizations in the Soviet Union at the regional level at the turn of 1920-1930s on the example of Central Black Earth region and their relationship with the regional authorities. At this critical period the government takes control of/or liquidates these foundations of civil society.

The article analyzes the system of attestation of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel of Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus considered it particularly defined priorities and objectives of Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus as the republican government authority to regulate relations in this sphere.

In the article problems of the developed system of vocational training are considered and the conclusion about need of the changes answering to new calls, approaches to managements and competence of public servants is drawn. The purposes and problems of such improvement are considered, new approaches to the organization of training and its contents are offered.

The article notes that the Republic of Belarus in the Eurasian geopolitical space is a transit country, being the point of contact the Western Christian, Eastern Christian civilization and the border of the two most important geo-economic associations. The paper emphasizes that the SCO should be considered as an important geopolitical subject, one of the main objectives of which is the structuring of the Eurasian geopolitical space. It is noted that the new status of the Republic of Belarus in this organization opens new opportunities associated with the formation of a full-fledged «designers» of the modern Eurasian geopolitical space.

The article discusses the prospects of Eurasian integration development and the impact on the process of national and regional protectionism, carried out in conditions of deep economic globalization crisis by USA and several other countries. The problems that arise in such circumstances on the way of European integration and the possible options to overcome them are analyzed.

The article is devoted to formation of the legal mechanism regulating questions of providing citizens with grants on obligatory social insurance as parts of the common social space of Russia and Belarus. On the example of process of standardization of the current legislation of the Russian Federation and Republic of Belarus in the social and labor sphere and the happening integration processes need of expansion of this process and for the Eurasian region for ensuring sustainable social development of the states is shown.