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The article discusses features of formation and development of the modern generation from a point of view of theory of generations of Howe N. and Strauss W. The analysis is based on a large-scale sociological study conducted in 2016 by Sberbank of Russia that served to identify directions of transformational changes in the behavioral model as well as causes and consequences for development and effectiveness of government regulation in various sectors of economy. The authors evaluate key elements such as information processing, self-perception, value settings, frustrations, fears and expectations from the future generation Z, underlying problems that cannot be resolved in the current institutional environment of economic policy.

The author of the article analyzes the importance of transport component in the price of energy resources in different historical periods of domestic energy industry. According to economic and geographical features of predominant production (in tons of conventional fuel), these periods are divided into: “Donetsk-Baku”, Donetsk-Volga-Ural” and “West-Siberian”. The author argues that development opportunities of “Giant energy” critically depend on geographical location of main fuel bases and cost of production and delivery of all used energy resources to places of their consumption. The relevance of approaches of Soviet leaders to solve the problem of permanent deficit of energy resources is illustrated by: 1) transfer of most energy-intensive industries to the sources of cheapest energy; 2) transfer of energy from energy surplus regions to energy-deficient regions with the help of long-range overhead lines; 3) saving of energy due to energy-saving technologies and economic incentives. It is suggested that the tremendous transport infrastructure of the fuel and energy industry of the former USSR continues to send distorted signals with pricing errors to the electricity market.

The history of formation, the main components, the non-standard methods of teaching the new school discipline «The Baikal studies» are outlined. The article is formed in the interview with the editorial board member of the journal with the organizer of this academic discipline, the author of a number of textbooks, scientific and popular publications about Baikal, a specialist in Baikal, candidate of biological sciences, deputy director of the Baikal Museum of the SB RAS, Elena Nikolaevna Kuzevanova. A brief description of the history of the study of Baikal is given. Ecological and economic problems of Lake Baikal are discussed. Analogies are being made between the laws of ecology and the models of the economy. The possibilities of financing measures to improve the ecological situation in the Baikal natural territory at the expense of rental income from natural resources of Lake Baikal are estimated. It is concluded that Baikal already at the present time is fully capable of «self-financing» - the rental revenues received from the hydroelectric power of the Angara River are estimated at more than 120 billion rubles. in year. The necessity and possibility of consistent coexistence of ecological and economic efficiency of people's life on the Baikal coast is discussed.

China and Russia are two neighboring major world powers as well as important nodes along the routex of the Belt and Road Initiative. In the context of a comprehensive strategic partnership, it is becoming more and more urgent and important to improve the results of Sino- Russian cooperation on cultural education, especially in the field of higher education, thus strengthening the cultural and technological potential of the two countries. It is shown that a comprehensive and institutionalized mode of cooperation on education between China and Russia has been established and great achievements have been made. A reasonable analysis has been carried out on the basic status, necessity of cooperation, current problems and countermeasures in educational exchanges between China and Russia with reference to the strengthening of efforts on educational cooperation with Russia.

The article discusses the features of the new edition of the State Program for the Development of Agriculture and Regulation of Agricultural Products, Raw Materials and Food Markets, developed in a pilot format based on project management principles. The shortcomings of the current state program in terms of the target block, structure and risk assessment of its implementation are analyzed. The author argues that the system deficiencies of the state program, as well as the whole instrument of state programs of the Russian Federation, are due to frequent revisions of the regulatory framework for the development, implementation and evaluation of the effectiveness of state programs of the Russian Federation.

The paper reviews the dynamics of rural settlement of the USSR and Russia from 1926 to 2010. Among the factors of its evolution during the Soviet period are urbanization and the policy of the Soviet government (collectivization, consolidation of collective farms, etc.). In the post-Soviet period, the principal factors are de-agrarization, a decline in the role of production and an increase in the share of “purely residential” functions of human settlements, an aging population, and an increase in recreational functions. Contrary to the established opinion, the policy of “resettlement of unpromising villages” did not have a significant impact on the rate of reduction in the number of settlements and increased outflow of population from the village. The traditional («Soviet») typology of rural settlements was based on their place in the system of collective farm production. But now the system of settlement and the territorial organization of the economy, which had almost coincided before, do not match. Therefore, the typology requires completely different indicators: the presence or absence of a resident population, its ratio to the temporary population, the presence of the working-age population and jobs.

The article deals with the impact of the Moscow agglomeration on the rural areas of the surrounding regions of the Central Federal district by various parameters related to spatial disparities in population change, economic activity, employment and mobility of the population, land use and secondary suburban development. The settlement patterns around the Moscow agglomeration and its change due to the ongoing urbanization are analyzed. The invariance of the suburban-peripheral organization of this territory is shown. The post-Soviet transformation of agriculture in Russia has led not only to shrinking land use around the Moscow agglomeration, but also to selective local developments of industrialized agriculture with a small number of employees, aimed at supplying Moscow and other large cities. At the same time, small-scale private economy with the depletion of labor potential, on the one hand, and the possibility of earnings outside agriculture, on the other, collapses. Оne of the adaptation options of the local population to unemployment in rural areas was regular labor migration to the Moscow agglomeration, which still retains the population in villages. In summer, the regions around Moscow Oblast are filled with urban residents, whose number in many areas exceeds the number of the local rural residents. The combination of the local industrial rural economy with mass development of seasonal second home recreation at this stage is the main way of development of rural areas in that large territory.

The article reviews the evolution of the system of rural self-government in Russia over the last 15 years. Following adoption in 2003 of the relevant federal law, the active institutional design of local self-government was replaced by a tendency to restrict the powers and autonomy of the municipalities - and, first of all, at the level of rural settlements closest to the population. Reduced financing of local budgets became a major factor in restricting rural development. The local self-government got introduced to the system of government as the lowest, most dependent and resource-limited level of the power hierarchy. In her field study, the author conducted interviews with heads of rural settlement administrations in Siberian regions that formed a “from bottom” view on the ongoing transformations to help understand the reaction of rural communities to changes in the external institutional environment. It is shown that the answer to the reform challenges is development of informal practices that facilitate self-organization of the population, which serves as a kind of compensatory mechanism. In such a system, the role of the heads of rural administrations considerably increases as they have to initiate and organize projects demanding complicity and solidarity of inhabitants in order to resolve common tasks.

The article compares the social worldviews of two prominent scientists of the beginning of the 20th century, Alexander Bogdanov and Alexander Chayanov, through the analysis of their utopian works, which in artistic form captured the essential features of the socio-economic and cultural-ethical views of these thinkers. It is shown that the monism of A. Bogdanov and the pluralism of A. Chayanov in many respects predetermined the ideological dominants of Bogdanov industrialism and Chayanov agrarianism.

Power industry reform is one of a few transformations in Russian economy that was sophisticated by design and went far in its implementation. Electricity and capacity wholesale market (OREM) development started competitive pricing in a sector that had being considered as demanding regulation for a long time. The practice showed effectiveness of the market procedures at OREM. Nevertheless, non-market mechanisms at OREM are pervasive, namely capacity supply agreements that guarantee rate of return to generators and orders for national power engineering industry, subsidizing some regions, etc. Cost based price formation and using power market as an instrument of industrial policy contradict the aims of the reform plan and aggravate the long-term risks for the sector as well: the market loses pricing signals, the motivation for improving efficiency may be distorted, conditions for Averch-Johnson effect are provided, the technological progress is balked.