One of the factors that determines the strategic directions of the socio-economic development of the region is its industry specialization and the industry priorities formed on its basis. However, in strategic documents both at the federal and regional levels, the results of attempts to determine the priorities of industrial development of territories, including the Far East, contain methodological and substantive gaps. The first step towards the formation of priorities for regional industrial development includes the search and identification of the current portfolio of specialization. In this article the authors identified the current industry specializations of 11 regions of the Far Eastern Federal District, assessed the level of development of industries and characterized the regionals industry portfolios, using the approach of the Russian Cluster Observatory and Rosstat data for 2019–2021. It is determined that the specialization of the Far East is formed by 29 industries. These industries employ 34.5% of workers of the Far Eastern Federal District. The most widespread and developed ones are «Metal Mining» and «Coal Mining». The regions of the Far Eastern Federal District are «specialized» (not «multi-industry»), because they have small industry portfolios. The regions differ significantly in the number of specializations: the maximum — in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (16 units), the minimum — in the Kamchatka Krai (5). The results of this research can be the basis for further determining the industry priorities (perspective industries of specialization) in the regions of the Far East in the framework of improving the provisions of strategic planning documents at the federal and regional levels.

Russia is practically the only country with reliable statistics in which life expectancy at birth during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020–2021 fell more for women than for men. Based on regional data and using an OLS model, the authors discuss the relationship between women’s demographic loss during the pandemic years in the regions of Russia and demographic and social determinants — factors associated with gender equality (in the labor market in wages and employment), with occupational segregation (work in medical organizations in the positions of medical staff at various levels), the demographic development of the region (success in increasing life expectancy for men and women in recent years), digitalization indicators (the share of people using electronic government services, the share of people using the Internet to buy goods). The result of the study is that higher compared to male female supermortality in the regions of Russia is associated with the presence of gender inequality, which, however, requires additional study, since this relationship with gender inequality is not recorded in other countries. The digitalization factor (use of digital public services) showed a non-significant relationship. The modernization factor (participation in online trading) is counter-intuitive — modernization contributes to excess mortality. The demographic factor showed significance only for men — perhaps this is due to the higher mortality of the male part of the population. The result we obtained only partially answers the question why in Russia LE0 of women fell during the pandemic much more than LE0 of men — in other countries, apparently, they were compensated by the targeted state social policy or the strict enforcement of the introduced restrictive rules, which requires additional research.

Social and labor conflicts as a kind of social conflicts have a direct impact on social development, being a negative factor in the implementation of labor activity and violating social well-being in general. However, the inevitability and permanent presence of social and labor conflicts with any modern society requires constant updating of both the theoretical and methodological basis for their interpretation and the practices of their settlement. This article is devoted to a review of theoretical approaches to the interpretation of the concept of “conflict” in various sciences, the specifics of determining the essence and attributes of a social and labor conflict in modern conditions, as well as identifying the features of social and labor conflicts in modern Russia in retrospect and in the early 2020s. The purpose of the article is to identify and describe the characteristics, factors that intensify social and labor conflicts in modern Russian society. The paper identifies and describes traditional and new drivers of social and labor conflicts, identifies and characterizes the stages of their development, sources of conflicts and forms of expressing demands over the past 30 years, identifies and investigates the types of Russian social and labor conflicts. Particular attention is paid to the influence of modern trends (digitalization, the use of artificial intelligence, the spread of the pandemic, the opportunities and limitations of the potential of a new human resource in the form of generation Z in professional activities) on the drivers and forms of social and labor conflicts. The paper demonstrates the discrepancy between the priorities of modern educational policy and the request from employers in the form of certain competencies necessary for the real sector of the economy. The article also explores the dynamics of ways to resolve conflicts in the labor sphere in modern Russian society.

The article presents the results of a survey conducted among the North Caucasus youth regarding the understanding of the semantic content of the «Russian nation» concept, as well as factors that affect the formation of the all-Russian civic identity (positively or destructively). It is shown that despite the widespread practice of using the concept of «Russian nation» in the official socio-political discourse, including on the agenda of youth policy, a full understanding among young people of this dogmatic phrase meaning has not developed yet. It is only fragmentally comparable with the definition fixed in the Strategy of the State National Policy of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025, and it has the character of compliance with one of the formal criteria of some kind (the presence of citizenship of the country, residence or the fact of birth on its territory, ethnicity to Russians). The perception of oneself as a subject endowed not only with a set of characteristics inherent in the members of the Russian nation, but also with a full awareness of responsibility for the fate of the country and its future is practically not typical for the reflection of young people regarding the semantic content of the concept under consideration. The survey results show that young people consider that the most significant for forming civic identity are education, state policy and specific actions of the authorities (these factors have a very important, but ambiguous in terms of consequences influence today), the media (destructive influence). The article also provides an overview of the main subjects implementing research on the formation of national unity and strengthening of civic identity at the regional and federal levels.

Automated search and selection of texts on a specific topic in the target source to form a representative thematic text collection (text dataset) of large dimensions, being a special case of obtaining and structuring primary data, remains one of the most demanded applied tasks of natural language processing. The article presents the experience of developing a system of linguistic markers that allows automated extraction of texts related to the topic of vaccination against COVID-19 on the material of the VKontakte social network. A combination of linguistic methods with methods for collecting and processing text data allows forming the final dataset. The test list of markers forms is based on background knowledge, work with dictionaries and special linguistic services. The task was to create a list of words united by a common conceptual feature, to predict the joint occurrence of words in texts about vaccination against COVID-19, or to find specific words that mark this topic: occasionalisms, designations of specific realities. The content of the VKontakte thematic communities uploaded using the test list of markers became the source of automated and expert extraction of the main array of markers (354 units). The procedure for automated filtering of an intermediate text sample (12.8 million texts) is in detail. The technique of formation of stop-words is given. For the period from 01.01.2020 to 03.01.2023, 4.5 million relevant messages were retrieved; the validity of the markers was confirmed by an insignificant amount of noise on the scale of big data. The general principles of preparing linguistic markers for automated unloading of large text data are systematized; the strengths and weaknesses of this tool are noted; recommendations for the formation of a list of linguistic markers are suggested.

The electric power industry is a basic branch setting the vector for the development of the national economy. The electric power industry is one of the most reformed industries. Improving the efficiency of the antimonopoly and tariff regulation is an important direction of state policy. The antimonopoly and tariff regulation is known to form competition in electric power industry. The main emphasis is made on the transition to long-term regulation as the basis for stable sustainable economic growth and the successful functioning of all market participants. The object of the study is the state tariff and antimonopoly policy; the subject of the study is organizational, economic and managerial relations between state and manufactures arising in the process of the state tariff and antimonopoly policy. The aim of the study is to develop and justify institutional mechanisms for regulating and improving efficiency of the electric power complex. The article presents such research methods as content analysis of theoretical concepts, economic-mathematical and statistical methods, an algorithmization method. Based on these methods, institutional changes in the implementation of the state tariff policy are economically justified. The data of the Federal State Statistics Service and the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS Russia) constitute the information base of the article. The main results of the study are 1) justifying the need to develop a method for regulating tariffs in the electric power industry, taking into account the balance of interests of all participants in economic processes and increasing the efficiency of their economic activity; 2) the formation of a long-term tariff policy and specific mechanisms for its implementation (application of the method of standards in justifying costs, conclusion of long-term regulatory contracts based on the maturity level of internal business processes of enterprises of the electric power complex).

The article is devoted to the analysis of the prospects for the integration of the Republic of Moldova into NATO. The foreign policy orientation of Moldova and its military-political status are a problem of a regional scale, which has become aggravated with the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. The aim of the article is to define a model for the integration of modern Moldova into NATO at the political level. During the study, the following tasks were solved: the history of interaction between the Republic of Moldova and NATO was analyzed, the nature of relations between Chisinau and the North Atlantic Alliance in the context of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine was determined, and the prospects for Moldova’s integration into NATO were determined, taking into account the regional and global situation. Through the use of system analysis, geopolitical approach, retrospective analysis, historical and comparative analysis as a methodological basis, the author came to the following conclusions: under the current political leadership, Moldova will actively move towards integration with Western political and military-political structures; unable to constitutionally abolish the neutral status of the republic, the leadership of Moldova chose the path of de facto integration into NATO with the nominally existing neutral status of the country, taking advantage of the fact that the neutrality of Moldova is not recognized by the world community and is not guaranteed by anyone; if such a model is successfully tested, it is possible that it will be used by NATO and other military-political blocs in relation to other states de facto dependent on the United States and other Western countries. It is of interest to study the possibility of developing political tools to neutralize the activity of the North Atlantic Alliance in the eastern direction, taking into account the fact of the “delegated subjectivity” of the organization.

In the present paper, the subagglomeration processes taking place in the Irkutsk region are comprehensively studied. Special emphasis is focused on the suburbanization issue, uncontrolled sprawl of suburban areas of regional centers and its consequences for demographic, economic and social development in the absence of competent management. The analysis of the world experience in the field of agglomeration management allows the most prospective models of territory management to be selected and prioritized. A detailed study of the growth and development of the Irkutsk agglomeration enables to formalize a new phenomenon, which can be termed as subagglomeration. The latter is formed at a distance from the city (that is it is not a suburb), but nevertheless features daily pendulum migrations to the core of the agglomeration, in which it is included. This work was greatly influenced by the experience and practices developed within the framework of the Moscow Urban Forum 2017, the Center for Urban Studies of the Skolkovo Business School, the analytical report “Sprawl Planning” of the Faculty of Urban and Regional Development of the A.A. Vysokovsky Higher School of Urban Planning, and works of K.V. Grigorichev devoted to the Irkutsk suburbanization. This background permits to formulate a hypothesis that high-quality planning, which determines the dynamics and development scenario of the agglomeration (regardless of the management model employed, more directive or more contractual) directly depends on the quality of synchronization of strategic and project documentation, and the cardinal goal of the agglomeration is the centralization of its management and resources. As a result, a management model for the Khomutovo-Urik subagglomeration has been developed. This model allows the effective integration of well-known tools for management of the sprawl to address the issues related to uncontrolled growth of suburban areas.

The article explores one of two dominant business models of the digital economy — a business ecosystem based on a digital platform and capable of providing digital technologies to individual ecosystems for rapid business scaling at the level of state and municipal management. The necessity of using the population-ecological approach as a conceptual framework explaining on which factors the number and distribution of organizations in the ecosystem depends is substantiated. The essence of the biological ecosystem and the similarity of the digital business ecosystem with it are revealed (using the example of a coral reef). The interpretation of the three principles between which there is a relationship and which should be followed when building a business ecosystem in order to build a successful business is given as well as the difference between a minimally viable ecosystem and a minimally viable product. A comparative analysis of the key types of business ecosystems, their goals and differences within the framework of state and municipal management is presented. As a result, the advantages and disadvantages of the business ecosystem in comparison with other management models (vertically integrated model, hierarchical supply chain and open market model) are revealed. Special attention is paid to the identification and analysis of key factors that are common to successful (according to the coordinator) digital business ecosystems. Due to the complexity of the object of analysis, it is shown that the members of the state administrative apparatus do not yet fully understand the factors that ensure the success of business ecosystems and this problem needs further research. Thus, it is found out in which situations the business ecosystem is a more preferable model of state and municipal management compared to other management models, and it is concluded that in the future its importance in business will only increase.

The study of the modern nomenclature of neurointerfaces is aimed at determining the technological horizons of the transformation of public administration, while it becomes particularly relevant in connection with the adoption of the roadmap for the development of “end-to-end” digital technology “Neurotechnologies and Artificial Intelligence”. Close attention to the development of neurotechnologies reflects the desire of the Russian Federation Government to respond qualitatively to the growth of the global market of neurointerfaces and on a sovereign technological basis to make an innovative transition to a new system of man-machine interaction, providing civil servants with the opportunity to perform administrative operations more efficiently. In this regard, the aim of the study is to reveal and visualize technical capabilities and limitations, potential risks from the introduction of neural interfaces into public administration practice. Taking into account the growth of software and technical solutions based on neurotechnologies, research methods include a cognitive method evaluating technological methods of application and likely negative consequences from the introduction of neurotechnologies, a method for visualizing mechanisms and technologies for the introduction of neurotechnologies both at the level of software solutions and at the technological level of neurointerfaces, a method of expert survey of representatives of the academic community of Russia using Google-tables. The results of the study suggest that, with all the diversity of the development of neurotechnologies in the field of public administration, computer vision technologies for identification and verification of personality, technologies of intelligent analysis and speech synthesis, technologies of recommendation systems and the creation of virtual assistants, technologies of machine learning, technologies of neuromanagement of communications and human motor activity, technologies of neurotracking, cognitive enhancement and the creation of mixed human-machine teams can be successfully implemented in the coming years. The potential negative consequences of the introduction of neurotechnologies into the practice of public administration determine the directions for further research of neurointerfaces related to issues of ensuring neuropsecurity, protection against neurodiscrimination and algorithmic bias, forecasting the effects of neurostimulation and cognitive improvement, preserving the neuropsychic integrity of a person and the integrity of his/her neurological profile.

The aim of the article is to identify the political-administrative governance capacities required for an adequate response to new challenges arising in conditions of turbulence and uncertainty. The article draws attention to the institutional component of this problem. The understanding of turbulence as a condition that changes the priorities of the governance institutional design is substantiated. The role of institutional uncertainty has been highlighted, when the potential readiness to respond to the action of unknown endogenous and exogenous factors becomes an indispensable element of the institutional design of modern public administration. It has been established that the governance capacities in the new conditions can be structured through distinguishing adaptive, predictive, dynamic and mobilization varieties within the framework of the corresponding typology. The methodological basis of this typology is the model of robust governance. As affirmed by the article there is a revision of traditional criteria for the quality assessment in public administration within the framework of the robust governance model. Instead of efficiency adaptation becomes а new basic criterion that is achieved in conformity with the requirements of flexibility, consistency and coherence implemented in optimal timing strategy for development. In turn, achieving compliance with these requirements depends on the characteristics of governance institutional arrangements. However, political-administrative barriers as a consequence of dysfunctions of the existing institutions and administrative practices can increase endogenous uncertainty. This makes it much harder to adequately respond to external shocks and may at some point create new challenges. The article concludes that overcoming the identified barriers, introducing and strengthening all the mentioned political-administrative capacities of the robust governance will make state institutions more sustainable and resilient for future shocks.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, COVID-19 has been perceived as a moral challenge to humanity and has become a central topic on the global agenda. The fight against the COVID-19 pandemic unfolding before our eyes has been repeatedly assessed not only as the largest market failure that the modern world has seen, but also as a catastrophic moral failure that threatens to turn into a political catastrophe. The article analyzes the general trends in the evolution of world public opinion over the three years of the fight against the pandemic as a response to this challenge and substantiates the conclusion about a slow but steady global value, cultural shift towards a solidaristic, humanistic vector, which is gradually being converted into real strategies for humanity’s exit from the COVID crisis. The metaphor “long COVID” is used in the article to emphasize the long-term and fundamental nature of the changes taking place under the influence of the pandemic, matured before the pandemic, but sharply accelerated and deepened with its onset and maintaining its inertia in the post-epidemic era. It is concluded that the inertia of these processes will only increase, because in addition to the fight against COVID, another battle is unfolding in the world — for the future, for the choice of a social vector for further technological and geopolitical development. And this explains the scale of the social upheaval associated with the pandemic, which is clearly not commensurate with its own nature and character. The pressure of world public opinion makes it possible to promote humanistic, solidaristic values, strengthen the democratic vector of world social development, forms a common moral environment as a powerful motivator of social change.

The article analyses the assistance provided by the USSR to India in construction of metallurgical plants. Strengthening of Soviet-Indian relations began immediately after India’s independence in 1947. 1953 was pivotal for strengthening of economic ties between the two countries. The intergovernmental trade agreement signed on the 2^nd of December became the basis for Soviet-Indian economic cooperation; it was signed for five years but later it was decided to extend the agreement because the parties were satisfied with the result of the cooperation. Partnership was mutually beneficial. Soviet leadership allocated financial aid for India on more than one occasion. Soviet Union helped India develop various industries, however the closest cooperation was in the field of metallurgy. The purpose of the article is to study the model of cooperation between the USSR and India in the construction of metallurgical plants in India. Plants built with the Soviet assistance played an important role in the development of Indian economic capacity. The current intensive development of relations between Russia and India particularly in the field of economy highlights the relevance of the research. The Indian leadership tried to pay more attention to the development of heavy industry in 1950s and 1960s. It was reflected in the first, second and third five-year plans. Construction of the largest metallurgical plant in Bhilai started in this period. The USSR was obliged to ensure the design of the plant, provide the necessary equipment and train Indian specialist in accordance with the agreement. The research is based on documentary and historical analysis. A number of archival documents used in the article has not been studied before. The result of the study allowed describing the Soviet-Indian interaction in the field of metallurgy and assessing the significance of cooperation.

The development and selection of new training tools are the significant components of successful training. The designers of training programs need to define and strictly follow the pre-defined criteria for their selection in accordance with a dozen guidelines. The relevance of in-depth research and comparative analysis of the opportunities, advantages and limitations of using the most popular, as well as original training tools, is associated, firstly, with the widespread implementation of training in the process of attracting, developing, motivating personnel in modern organizations. Secondly, it is possible to promptly reveal hidden contradictions, tense situations and conflicts in the process of real interaction between staff and managers within the framework of training. Thirdly, the training tools are very diverse, they have proven themselves in modern practice of working with personnel and are perfectly integrated into complexes of HR-analytical activities. The research aims are to determine the possibilities and limitations of using modern training tools in the process of HR analytics; on the basis of a comparative analysis of modern training tools, to identify the criteria for their selection for solving the problems of HR analytics. The research methods include comparative analysis, the systematic and interdisciplinary approaches. In the main part of the study the following results were obtained. In the process of analyzing the role of HR analytics in HR management it is shown that the implementation of modern HR analytics tools creates a solid platform for making changes in the organization. In the process of a comparative analysis of traditional HR analytics tools, the most popular, proven and original methods and techniques were identified. When studying the role of training in HR analytics, the high potential of training in HR analytical diagnostics was demonstrated, including identification of areas of instability, contradictions and latent conflicts, as well as the need for their application in solving other problems of HR analytics. The novelty of the research result is defined by the fact that the term ‘HR analytical training’ is introduced and its definition is proposed; the possibilities and limitations of using modern training tools in the process of HR analytics are clarified; the choice of criteria for selecting training tools for HR analytics is justified in a new way; a scientific and practical assessment of a number of new original HR analytical training methods is given. In conclusion, the directions for further development of HR analytics training tools and the current research issues in this area are shown.

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of staffing in the field of information technology in Russia in 2022; the nature and scale of this process are analyzed. During 2022, the most qualified and sought-after personnel left the country — the leaders of the digital transformation of the present and future. In Russian organizations, highly qualified specialists who have left are being replaced by lower-skilled personnel with less experience and a more modest set of skills and abilities. Moreover, the process of searching for new personnel can stretch for several months, which has a negative impact on production processes. In 2022, a high potential for departure and reorientation to foreign companies has formed among Russian specialists. The long-term negative contribution to the outflow of qualified personnel from Russia is made by the sanctions imposed on the fields of science and education. The measures taken by the Russian authorities to solve the problem are of limited effectiveness: one can talk about the prospect of stabilizing or freezing the problem, but not about its solution. It is emphasized that in the absence of effective tactical and strategic measures to solve this problem, in the coming years, the Russian state may face a new problem: technological degradation and stagnation in digital development against the backdrop of a shortage of highly qualified personnel. This problem requires immediate measures to eliminate it, primarily through an understanding of the reasons for the departure of specialists, as well as their goals and motives, life attitudes. Support measures taken by the state should take into account two levels of reasons: firstly, it is the minimization of the influence of those factors that prompted specialists to leave the country; secondly, the creation of long-term comfortable and attractive conditions for the development of IT specialists within the country.