Aim. Reveal the methodological role of ideas about the geopolitical potential of the state in making managerial decisions in the development of the space of the Russian Arctic. The article presents an overview of fundamental research and articles by foreign authors that addresses the problem of realizing the geopolitical potential of the Arctic.
Tasks. Development of the principles of geopolitical forecasting based on mathematical modeling of the geopolitical potential of the state and systematization of developments on the spatial development of the Russian Arctic as part of Greater Eurasia.
Methods. Mathematical modeling of geopolitical processes, medium-term forecasting of the spatial development of the Russian Arctic in the face of challenges from foreign states claiming its natural resources and territorial waters.
Results. It confirms the need to include scientific developments in the methodological apparatus of geopolitical research to identify qualitative and quantitative definitions of the geopolitical potential of the state, which contributes to ensuring the national security of Russia and improving its spatial development.
Conclusions. The transition to the sixth technological mode is not limited to a radical transformation of the country’s production complex, but also implies the need to create a unified infrastructure architecture for the Greater Eurasia (“smart” Eurasia), into which the Russian Arctic organically fits.

Aims. Conceptualization of technopolitical sphere impact on recursive processes of public policy; defining key problems that inhibit public authorities from improving digital politics stability essential for developing public policy recursive potential.
Methods. The work is based on institutional approach traditional for conducting interdisciplinary research about using informational and communicative technologies in politics and governance. Moreover, it is helpful for considering meaning of public institutes in the scope of conceptualization of technopolitical sphere stability and recursiveness as an attribute of public policy.
Results. Recent approaches to understanding the essence of public policy define the efficiency of shaping political agenda, developing and making decisions as more and more dependent on expert knowledge and ways of political participation. Based on the recursiveness as a public policy attribute there is made a point of expert knowledge for building and keeping feedback linking between system elements as a key principle of public policy change as an «epistemic thing». Recursive processes progression depends on stability of technopolitical sphere that rests upon quality, direction and dynamics of institutional change, political inclusiveness. As for Russia, building technopolitical infrastructure necessary for recursive processes is in progress now and meet a wide range of political and governmental rigidity, legal framework insufficiency. In order to overcome it, public authorities shall pay attention to total improving the digital literacy, coordination, legal framework update and developing new institutes of digital intersectoral collaboration.
Conclusion. In public policy and its actors recursiveness serves as a principle of systematic monitoring politics and governance which defines evolutional dynamics of these processes. Digital politics creates conditions for building recursive processes into the context of shaping political agenda, developing and making decisions. The research results highlight issues significant for contemporary political science in the context of technopolitical national development and can be enhanced with both theoretical and applied research.

The article provides an overview of current research on elections in authoritarian political regimes. For this purpose, a number of significant papers on this issue have been selected, published in peer-reviewed academic journals with a high impact-factor. The assessment of the significance of the works was made primarily on the basis of their citation indicators according to Scopus and Google Scholar. It is stated that despite the rapid growth in the number of works on authoritarian elections over the past two decades, it is still far from building a comprehensive theory in this area. The review focuses on the question of how elections affect the survival of authoritarian regimes. In this regard, conflicting positions are presented in the literature. On the one hand, elections are seen as instruments for stabilization of authoritarian rule, on the other hand — as sources of instability, and on the third — as levers of democratization.

This article discusses the proposed measures of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation, set out in the draft strategy for the development of the construction industry and housing and communal services, which received a disapproving response from some experts in the media. The article analyzes the regulatory documents regulating the activities of management organizations in the housing and communal services market. According to the results of the analysis carried out by the author, it was found that state regulation of the industry in question only through laws and by-laws is currently insufficient. The initiative of the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation related to the introduction of a regional operator (guaranteeing management organization) into business practice is justified by the author of the article from an organizational, managerial, and economic point of view. In particular, it is proposed to expand the subject-object relations between the state and the management organization in the management system to subject-subject relations between the regional operator (guaranteeing management organization) and consumers of housing and communal services. From an economic point of view, the proposals of the Ministry of Construction of Russia may be economically beneficial for both sides: the state receives a large return on budgets of different levels by changing the taxation system (from simplified to general) and the corresponding tax rate, and management organizations receive a large profit by increasing the profitability of their professional activities by 1.5–2 times. As a result, the author comes to the conclusion that the measures proposed by the Ministry of Construction of Russia are necessary and non-discriminatory, since the relationship between the management organization and consumers of housing and communal services is carried out on market principles and in a competitive environment, and the administration of processes by the state regarding the selection of management organizations for the provision of housing and communal services to the population does not infringe on the rights of economic entities to carry out any legitimate economic activity.

The aim of the study was to consider from a managerial point of view the imbalances of interests of stakeholders within the regional space, aimed at identifying the interests of individual groups, as well as determining their impact on business development and strategic assets of the region. The research hypothesis is that the presence of conflict zones seriously affects the state of economic security and presupposes the adjustment of the existing strategic vector of the region’s economic development. Research methods — analysis of scientific literature and regulatory legal acts, synthesis. The results consist in proposing a conceptual model for managing the balance of interests in the system of ensuring economic security. It has been proved that a scientifically grounded system of interaction between subjects of the regional economy, taking into account the principles of harmonizing their interaction and the optimal combination of regional interests, will ensure the economic security of the region within the framework of the trajectory of socio-economic development of the region for a long period. Conclusions: when coordinating the interests of all economic entities, eliminating tense conflict zones, and implementing measures to neutralize threats to regional economic security, a significant amount of organizational and intellectual resources will be released, which were used in the struggle to realize their own interests by any means. With their targeted use, the vital interests of the region and municipalities will be more reliably protected, regional financial stability will be preserved, and external protection from the destabilizing effects of the external environment will be formed.

The classification of residential real estate occupied by the citizens of the country has been raised more than once both by the scientific community and by the state. Based on the managerial approach, the article reveals the main methods of differentiation of places of residence and class of housing, used by government department at the federal and regional levels. On the example of the modern megapolis — St. Petersburg — the dynamics of the development of the housing sector, its important social character is shown. Based on historical, sociological and normative methods, the material on specific cases illustrates the heterogeneity of people living in various types of modern housing. It is concluded that it is necessary to take into account the entire system of factors that determine the classification of residential real estate in order to more accurately predict the development of social processes in the housing sector, and effective public administration at the regional level.

The subject of consideration in this article are the state and prospects for the digitalization of public administration in modern Russia. The scale and speed of changes in all spheres of public relations caused by digital technologies is unprecedented, these changes were especially accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic. They affect these changes and processes of public administration, at the same time, in this area there are differences from the commercial sector, where such a phenomenon as the “digital economy” has arisen and is developing. The task of the modern state is to create digital services and platforms aimed at more rapid and high-quality satisfaction of the needs of citizens and business, that is, in essence —to generate a new type of public goods in the form of digital public services. The article considers the prospects for the development of such processes.

The innovative development of the agro-industrial complex (AIC) of the Russian Federation is a priority area of state policy, since the agro-industrial complex is the basis for ensuring the country’s food security. Technological and product innovations in the sector will reduce the risks of doing business and provide the domestic and foreign markets with goods that have high consumer value and meet the needs of consumers. The purpose of this study is to substantiate the need for innovative development of the agro-industrial complex and develop recommendations for increasing the innovative activity of agro-industrial enterprises. The objectives of the study are to determine the industry’s contribution to GDP, to determine the level of innovation activity, to analyze development factors, to analyze factors that slow down innovation activity and to draw up appropriate recommendations. Research methods are economic analysis and synthesis. The article shows that the innovative development of the agroindustrial complex largely depends on state support and the creation of a special institution for the transfer of innovative technologies. The main provisions of the article: it is shown that in modern Russia the high potential of agro-industrial production has not been realized; innovative development of enterprises in the agro-industrial complex depends on the import of technologies; Russia has a scientific base and the potential for creating innovative solutions, but in the absence of technology transfer institutions, it cannot be realized; the creation of a special institute for technology transfer will increase the innovative activity and competitiveness of the Russian agro-industrial complex in the domestic and world markets.

The economy of Vietnam is a socialist-oriented emerging market that heavily depends on agriculture, tourism, raw material exports, and foreign direct investment. Vietnam is industrializing and modernizing from a low starting point with weak and small economic resources. This is one of the huge obstacles to the development of Vietnam’s economy. Therefore, mobilizing and leveraging foreign direct investment are very important. In the COVID-19 pandemic, many large international corporations and enterprises are looking for investment opportunities to diversify their supply chains and limit their overdependence on the Chinese market. Vietnam has emerged as one of the brightest candidates for this capital flow due to its success in epidemic prevention. While foreign direct investment has been declining globally, foreign direct investment in Vietnam has rebounded in the second quarter of 2020 and has been on an upward trend. The real estate market remained an active segment in the third quarter of 2020. This article uses comparison, logical and statistical analysis methods to study foreign direct investment in real estate in Vietnam. The contribution analyzes the factors that influenced the desire of foreign investors to invest in the Vietnamese real estate market, based on publicly available data sources of the Foreign Investment Agency, Vietnam Ministry of Planning and Investment; and the General Statistics Office of Vietnam. Solutions at the state level to stimulate investment in Vietnam are proposed.

This paper introduces the four stages of the construction of China’s social credit system. In combination with the characteristics of the institutional system, this paper describes the specific practices adopted by the Chinese government to promote the construction of the social credit system from six aspects, namely, governing government integrity, business and social ethics and judicial integrity, building the credit information platform, developing third-party credit service institutions and credit service markets, and constructing the social credit system demonstration cities. It argues that the construction of China’s credit system has the problems of insufficient rule of law, imperfect credit platform construction, and difficult credit repair. These problems will be gradually solved in the new phase of the social credit system’s construction starting from 2021, and China will continue to develop and improve its social credit system in the process of solving problems.

Institution system is an important part of modern social governance. Government, market and social relations within the system, as well as the corresponding institutional arrangements, can be said to be the top priority. Corporate social responsibility is an outstanding case that embodies the relationship and institutional arrangement of the three in practice.

Government regulation of social credit system is a good example to analysis it. The research on government regulation of social credit system itself is put forward from the perspective of government, so in the field of government regulation of social credit system, should enterprises play a role? Especially in the era of big data, a large number of data are provided by private enterprises. Without these data, it is difficult to complete the construction of big data system. If enterprises should play their role, what’s the contribution of the government? Academic and industrial circles have been expressing their own opinions on these issues.

Therefore, this paper attempts to build a game model among government, enterprise and society to solve the following problems: how to solve the relationship problem among government, enterprise and society? How to build the corresponding system? What’s the corresponding government regulation of China’s social credit system go from the perspective of business ethics?

Through the game model analysis, the author finds that shareholders can reduce the threat of CEO replacement and collude with the management staff members to make the cake (including the interests of stakeholders) smaller. But on the basis of the loss of stakeholders’ rights and interests, shareholders’ wealth is increasing, which also explains why more and more senior executives are trying to form collusion with stakeholders in the campaign against antitakeover and loose audit system. Shareholders’ rights and interests and stakeholders’ rights and interests present a seesaw phenomenon. The response of the stakeholders and shareholders to a better corporate governance model is consistent. That is to say, the increase of shareholders’ income is not necessarily based on the loss of stakeholders. The game model also shows that the protection of formal laws and regulations is the main factor to increase the benefits of stakeholders. Through the case of the social credit system, we will conclude that the formal laws and regulations cannot fully ensure the increase of stakeholders’ income, but also need to strengthen the transformation of institutional advantages into governance advantages, and strengthen the law enforcement. It will finally promote the further improvement of social credit system.

The article deals with the problems of integrated development of territories in the context of site planning, urban zoning and methods of disposal of public property: privatization, concession agreements, public-private partnerships. Current legislation, including laws of regions of the Russian Federation, was analyzed in detail and gaps in legislation were found. The paper emphasizes the need for further improvement of legislation and law-enforcement practices. The article also focuses on the withdrawal of land plots and objects located on them for the purposes of integrated development of territories and fixing rent rates. Recommendations are provided with regard to changes in existing legislation.

The problem of the history of public administration in the field of medicine and healthcare has never lost its relevance. The Health project has become one of the priority national projects of the last decade. The epidemic that began in 2020 has exacerbated many long-standing problems of Russian medicine: a shortage of medical personnel and medical institutions, insufficient material security of doctors, etc. As a result of the clumsily carried out “optimization” and contradictory actions during the epidemic, the level of confidence of the people and society in the activities of modern health care organizers has fallen. The topic of the state of health care, sanitary and epidemic safety, the role of the state in solving these pressing issues has firmly entered the public discourse, aroused interest in considering historical experience with all its achievements and losses. A significant place in the state administration of medicine and healthcare has always been occupied by specific people — government officials who have made a noticeable and real contribution to the development of health care.

The management of medical and sanitary affairs in the provinces of the Russian Empire was carried out by medical inspectors (the position was established in 1865), as a rule, highly qualified doctors with extensive and diverse practical experience. The materials of the Russian State Historical Archive (St. Petersburg) and local archives allow us to make a typical portrait of this category of managers. In the funds of the Medical Department and the Main Medical Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, cases have been postponed in which the official activities and biographies of medical inspectors are characterized. The article examines the main activities of medical inspectors, assesses their contribution to the formation and development of healthcare and medicine in pre-revolutionary Russia. Along with the study of forms and methods of solving medical and sanitary-epidemic problems of the regions by inspectors, the personal qualities of the best managers, which have become the basis for the success of their activities, are also highlighted.

The article is devoted to the investigation of the testaments of Moscow Grand Dukes in the XIV century, contains an analysis of the land holdings and the political role of the Grand Princesses. Based on the study of the testamentary acts of Ivan Kalita, Semyon Ivanovich, Ivan Ivanovich, Dmitry Ivanovich, the agreements of Simeon Gordy with brothers Ivan and Andrey, of Dmitry Donskoy with Vladimir Andreevich Serpukhovsky, the author reconstructs the system of distributing villages and volosts between princesses after the death of Moscow rulers. Discussion topics, related to the study of the composition of witnesses in the agreement of Semyon Ivanovich with his brothers, and the establishment of the identity of his uncle in the testament of Simeon Gordy are also considered.

Global instability as a factor in the change of world order increased gradually. The discussion about a new systemic crisis began already at a time when the world and Europe were still overcoming the consequences of the economic crisis of 2007–2009. However, we faced with not an economic and not even a political crisis, but a systemic destruction of the world order, which will no longer be restored. Ukraine has only shown that it is a weak link, where all global problems are integrated into a single whole and proposed for Russia’s solution.