The paper analyses the Northern Siberia Trunk-railway Concept developed by the Institute for Regional Policy. It is shown that the Concept does not contain those required provisions which could make the Concept a scientifically valid document going before the implementation of this project and allowing for an uncertainty factor as the project is of a unique scope and complexity. The institutional aspects also require proper elaboration. The technical and economic indicators applied to validate the project proved to be disputable. We suggest that the expected effectiveness of the Project should be compared with other projects concerning the development of the Siberian railway system, and then the priorities of such projects be determined.
The paper analyzes certain aspects of competitiveness between regions on the base of the data obtained by questioning the representatives of authorities and business in Ural region. We focus on the nature and directions of competitive struggle between regions, identifying the indicators of regional competitiveness, the roles which regional administrations play in regional competition and the gist of regional competitive advantages. We also state that the atmosphere of trust should be necessarily built in the society as well as the good relationship between authorities of different levels and business. The important tools to enhance the competitiveness of regions are public-private partnership, clusterization of economies and logical and continuous shaping of regional images and reputations.
The paper describes the character of a hydrocarbonic resource base in Western Siberia and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), an economic-geographical location of this area, its economic development, a governmental policy towards it and institutional barriers for developing the oil-and-gas potentials under hazardous climatic conditions of this remote and underpopulated area. The factors why there are many problems in the development of this area are the same that impede the overall development of the oil-and-gas industry in Russia at present.
The paper presents and validates the quantitative estimations and principles of gas supply to new Eastern markets, and describes the problems and threats connected with this. Having analyzed the conditions and perspectives of the natural-gas industry development in Russia, and using analytical data and quantitative information about the systems of gas supply in counties of the Asia-Pacific Region, first of all in the Northeast Asia, we could show the prospects of our cooperation with such countries. In our analysis we used publicly available information of Russian and overseas mass-media including electronic ones, as well as those obtained through our study of the production enterprises and infrastructure in Northeast Asia countries.
To balance the operating rates of an enterprise or corporation is one of the most important factors for building an effective management system. The paper presents one of such methodological approaches. To build such system which include the coordinated management indicators used in different functional subsystems and at different management levels, we propose the use of the optimization models involving innovations to enhance corporate competitive advantages in markets as well as to balance those rates concerning the inside corporate operation.
The paper-presentation analyzes Canadian practices of federal support, the Aboriginal self-development, relations between the federal and Northern governments and mechanisms aimed at better use of natural resources in the North.
The paper summarizes the output of the Russia-Canada Workshop on "Strategic Planning and Assessment of Regional Programs". The author analyzes the practices of strategic planning in Russia and Canada as well as the possible evolution of strategic planning in Russia in case we would apply the best Canadian practices.
It is shown how the theory developed by the author and regarding the structural transformations of molecules as the result of the resonance mixing between the vibronic wave functions of the corresponding states of subsystems can be extended to the case with an arbitrary number of the resonant and quasiresonant energy levels.
The vast numbers of molecular objects and chemical transformations of a substrate cannot be evaluated even intuitively, which necessitates the development of simple reaction monitoring methods. Here this problem is formulated for the first time, and possible solutions are substantiated.
