The proposed method of studying the impact of technological and knowledge-intensive investments on the dynamics of the competitiveness of Russian investment equipment is aimed at determining the main factors and quantifying the effective[1]ness of their impact on the growth of developing import substitution. The studied groups of investment equipment are formed from high-tech, technically complex, and expensive types of products. The object of the study is the competitiveness of domestic investment equipment in the home market of the Russian Federation. The results show the need to significantly in[1]crease the costs of research and development and update the active part of fixed assets. The growth of high-tech investments will contribute to the expansion of the range of investment equipment that has technological competitiveness in the domestic market, and reduce the import of technically complex, high-tech, expensive equipment. The increase in the competitiveness of technically complex and knowledge-intensive export-oriented products produced by Russian enterprises should ensure a reduction in the import of such products to the domestic market. This particular path is aimed at developing import substitution and is a feature of the development of domestic engineering.

The article analyzes the relationship of sustainable development with the introduction of “green” technologies and the formation of smart cities. The role of sustainability as a basic feature of smart cities, which are based on the integration and complexity of the formation of urban space, taking into account its digital transformation, including a wide coverage of information and communication technologies and electronic networks, is shown. The article describes the possible structure of a smart city, including infrastructure, economic, social, information and management components of the urban economy. Within the framework of the selected structural directions of smart city formation, the main possible “green” technologies as an attribute of the “green” economy and smart city are presented. Based on the generalization of the accumulated knowledge on the problems of the smart city, the basic principles of the concept of smart cities are systematized and concisely presented. When analyzing various structural components of a smart city, the content of the activity and the expected result are shown. The author highlighted both the main favorable and possible negative consequences, as well as the controversial issues of creating smart cities and introducing “green” technologies.

The subject of the study is the spatial innovative development of American industry. The nature and degree of spatial localization, concentration and correlation dependence of the USA manufacturing industries (as the most innovation intensive) on the implementation of relevant R&D is subject to study. The purpose of this study is to identify trends in the spatial innovation development of modern industry in the United States. We used such methods as abstract-logical, statistical economic (correlation analysis, localization indices), the techniques of which worked on the application of the typological approach. The results of the correlation analysis allow us to conclude that there is a significant (close to functional) direct relationship between the volume of innovative products and R&D expenditures — both in the whole country and in the leading states. The calculation of localization indices and the graphical interpretation of the results obtained made it possible to assess the dependence of the industry specialization of the USA states on the spatial features of the innovative development of industrial production, expressed in various territorial combinations — innovative types of development of national industry. Spatial innovative development of industrial production at the regional level clearly demonstrates a two-level “center-peripheral” trend, expressed in the identified typological combinations. The spatial development of American industry, aimed at increasing the efficiency of production of primarily innovative products, has developed in close interaction (mutual influence and mutual penetration) with the institutions of the national innovation system of the United States, which has been expressed in spatial localization, high concentration and in specific forms and types of territorial combinations of elements of both systems. At the same time, the spatial aspect of this mutual combination and interaction, which is of a traditional “center-peripheral” nature, is reflected in a clear trend of extreme polarization both at the state level and in more extensive spaces — within the regions and districts (groups of states) of the country. This necessitates a qualitatively higher level of interaction between the United States and other countries in the global system of innovation and economic development in order to build global production chains.

The subject of the study is the spatial innovative development of American industry. The nature and degree of spatial localization, concentration and correlation dependence of the USA manufacturing industries (as the most innovation-intensive) on the implementation of relevant R&D is subject to study. The purpose of this study is to identify trends in the spatial innovation development of modern industry in the United States. We used such methods as abstract-logical, statistical-economic (correlation analysis, localization indices), the techniques of which worked on the application of the typological approach. The results of the correlation analysis allow us to conclude that there is a significant (close to functional) direct relationship between the volume of innovative products and R&D expenditures — both in the whole country and in the leading states. The calculation of localization indices and the graphical interpretation of the results obtained made it possible to assess the dependence of the industry specialization of the USA states on the spatial features of the innovative development of industrial production, expressed in various territorial combinations — innovative types of development of national industry. Spatial innovative development of industrial production at the regional level clearly demonstrates a two-level “center-peripheral” trend, expressed in the identified typological combinations. The spatial development of American industry, aimed at increasing the efficiency of production of primarily innovative products, has developed in close interaction (mutual influence and mutual penetration) with the institutions of the national innovation system of the United States, which has been expressed in spatial localization, high concentration and in specific forms and types of territorial combinations of elements of both systems. At the same time, the spatial aspect of this mutual combination and interaction, which is of a traditional “center-peripheral” nature, is reflected in a clear trend of extreme polarization both at the state level and in more extensive spaces — within the regions and districts (groups of states) of the country. This necessitates a qualitatively higher level of interaction between the United States and other countries in the global system of innovation and economic development in order to build global production chains.

The financial independence of local government is the most important condition for its effective functioning. The paper considers the key fiscal indicators for city of Berdsk of Novosibirsk region for the period 2010—2017, proposed budget coefficients for assessing the state of the budget. Using the proposed tools, the budget structure of the city of Berdsk was assessed both from the point of view of its provision with revenues received directly on the territory, and from the standpoint of dependence on funds transferred from the regional budget, the stability of the budget of the city of Berdsk was studied by calculating budget coefficients.

Тhe article deals with the features of strategic planning in industrial monotowns on the example of the village of Kysyl-Syr of the Vilyuysky district of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). The village of Kysyl-Syr of the Vilyuysky district of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) is a monotown — the center of the gas production industry in Central Yakutia, the town-forming suboil user organization is PAO “YATEK”. The socio-economic development of the village for a long time is determined by the presence of unique industrial reserves of gas and gas condensate in the Vilyuysky district in the immediate vicinity of the village, which are intensively developed and with which its further development prospects are associated. In general, the economy of the village depends almost entirely on the results of the activities of the town-forming organization and the volume of natural gas production, which makes it necessary to form medium-and long-term plans for the development of the village, taking into account the unique raw material base of natural gas and gas condensate. However, the strategic planning of the socio-economic development of the village should not only provide for the prospects for the development of gas production and gas processing industries, but also be aimed at ensuring the sustainable development of the village, as well as the development of non-resource industries. The purpose of this study is to form strategic goals and objectives aimed at ensuring the sustainable development of the economy of monotowns on the example of the village of Kysyl-Syr, as well as to determine the features of strategic planning in industrial monotowns.

A paradigm shift in the use of information technologies in modern socio-economic systems is shown. Information processes and digital technologies expand the scope of the main activities of employees, enterprises, organizations, institutions and play an active role in the formation of value chains, consumer preferences, as well as in the convergence of cognitive and information technologies with the support and decision-making both in production processes and in the formation of volatile trends in goods and services markets, etc. The regularities of the use of information about the properties and characteristics of goods and services offered to customers, as well as the reaction in the form of formed demand in accordance with the needs at all levels of the Maslow pyramid are established. In addition, it shows the patterns of influence of the information reflecting the experience of using products by predecessors on the preferences of followers. It is established that the simultaneous impact of positive and negative information forms multidirectional trends in the dynamics of demand in the markets of goods and services. A mathematical model of the influence of information processes on the dynamics of product distribution has been developed and verified. The model includes a mathematical description of the hype processes of the formation of growth and decline trends, as well as their joint manifestation, and with a different time manifestation. It is based on the solution of differential equations of both positive and negative impacts of information processes on economic systems and their actors. The resulting generalized mathematical model is an instrumental tool for the quantitative representation of hype cycles, the qualitative analogue of which is the Gartner cycles, which are widely used today for managing the production activities of enterprises, projects, as well as for positioning innovative products in the life cycles of their market distribution.

The article provides a brief overview of the publication activity on the problems of building information systems for knowledge management. The research of publication activity was carried out on the materials reflected in the databases SCOPUS, Web of Science, Science Direct and RSCI. The article presents the thematic and specific distribution of publications, as well as the dynamics of publication activity in the development and use of ontologies. The analysis of approaches to the management of polythematic knowledge using ontologies is given. As an alternative to the thesaurus representation of knowledge, an approach based on the use of classification languages is proposed.

In this article, the author analyzes the relationship between youth policy and stability in various political regimes. Today, the world's population is growing, and the main cohort is occupied by young people. In this regard, they are both a positive resource and a negative. According to the research, the propensity of young people to terrorist and protest activity is due to the fact that the state is not able to meet the needs of young people. In particular, the youth policy is understood as a system of measures of the state aimed at the maintenance and development of youth. In this regard, the Commonwealth Youth Development Index 2013 and Global Youth Development Index 2016 was used to measure youth policy in 2013, 2016. Political stability refers to changes in the political system that are measured by indicators of political instability, such as terrorism and guerrilla warfare, assassinations, revolutions, riots, purges, major government crises, anti-government demonstrations, general strikes. The Cross National Time Series (CNTS) data is used to measure stability. The Polity IV indicators, in particular pure democracies, hybrid democracies, and autocracies, were used to divide states by types of political regimes. In total, the sample included 153 States. In this study, the role of the influence of youth policy on the stability of different political regimes was analyzed. The analysis showed that there is a non-linear relationship between youth policy and the level of stability in different political regimes.

The problem of statistical observation of the facts, causes and consequences of violence, in particular sexual violence, is identified by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the situation: there is a sharp increase in violence against women and girls in the world, and the number of cases of domestic violence has significantly increased. Sexual violence is considered to be one of the main risk factors for women's health vulnerability, mainly reproductive and psychological, which determines the importance of statistical assessment of the scale, level of prevalence and socio-economic consequences of this phenomenon. The article presents the rationale for the possibilities and the main methodological problems of conducting such a quantitative assessment. 

The relevance of the topic is related to the limitations of state (municipal) employees in public law and in the exercise of their rights and interests in private law relations. The article is devoted to the identification of the activities of state and municipal employees in the legal regulation, the norms related to their participation in corporate relations. The concept of “conflict of interests” and the purpose of its introduction into the current legislation is analyzed. The situations in which the establishment of restrictions on the rights of state (municipal) employees is redundant, since there is no direct connection with the emergence of a conflict of interests, are examined. It also identifies possible cases of seemingly legitimate behavior, in which violations on the part of employees in the corporate sphere are possible. It is concluded that it is necessary to detect and evaluate several components of employee behavior that entail the likelihood of a conflict of interest.