The planned reform of higher education affects the vital interests of the entire society, and the need for its implementation is already virtually beyond doubt. The article examines innovative mechanisms for achieving the strategic goals of the reform, the practical application of which can help university graduates acquire competencies that enable them to effectively address the challenges of enhancing the global competitiveness of the Russian economy and make a significant contribution to ensuring the country’s technological sovereignty.

Given the current external context for the Russian Federation, scientific research into the ability of citizens to resist terrorist threats is of particular importance and relevance. Based on empiri cal data obtained from a monitoring study in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, as well as an empirical study of the main directions and effective measures for countering extremism and terrorism in the youth infor mation environment in the Republic of Khakassia, the authors examined the readiness of the popula tion to personally participate in counter-terrorism activities. Since 2023, regional communities have recognised that terrorism is a reality of Russia’s internal development, threatening the integrity of the state. The article shows that the inclusion of social actors in such activities requires a certain set of conditions: active information dissemination, participation of civil society institutions, productive work of state institutions, etc. 

The article is devoted to the study of twin-city relations as a component of the communication space of the Union State of Belarus and Russia. Their importance for enhancing the legitimacy of union-building and deepening bilateral integration is emphasised. The key formats of twinning are shown, taking into account the general process of institutionalisation of this integration. Parameters of quantitative and qualitative dynamics and positive changes are identified. Certain weaknesses are articulated, including insufficient regulatory support and alignment with integration benchmarks. Some corrective measures are proposed for the implementation of decisions taken in this area, their consolidation in union acts, information support for twin-city relations, and their public and political backing.

The article presents the results of a study on the problem of dynamic resource imbalance in the public administration system. In contrast to works that analyse fiscal sustainability, strategic planning and investment policy in isolation, an integrated analytical framework is proposed in which sustainability is interpreted as the alignment over time of the trajectories of goals, resources and management decisions. Based on a synthesis of macro-financial, institutional and strategic approaches, a dynamic resource balance index is constructed, comprising four blocks: budget deficit, public debt, share of investment expenditure, and revenue base volatility.

The article presents a system of statistical indicators characterising the quality of life of the population, divided into six sections: state support, demography, healthcare, education, living con ditions, and environment. The main data sources were the websites of the World Bank, the Interstate Statistical Committee of the CIS, and national statistical services. Missing data were imputed using special statistical methods. An integral assessment of the quality of life was calculated and analysed for the years 2014, 2019 and 2024, both overall and for the six dimensions, taking into account the direction of influence of factors across the CIS countries, with the exception of Turkmenistan. The consistency of changes in the ranking positions of the CIS countries over time was assessed using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. Visualisation of the quality of life in the CIS countries for 2024 was performed using Chernoff faces in the STATISTICA software package.

The intensification of economic activity and the increasing resource orientation in the East of Russia due to the current geopolitical situation may lead to a deterioration of the environmental situation in this region. Mitigating the consequences of economic activity is possible provided that the directions of environmental policy reflected in environmental protection programmes are adjusted in the context of strategic regional development plans. In practice, however, there is often a fragmen tation of goals, inconsistency of the indicators used, and a general lack of coordination among pro grammes in various spheres of regional development. The aim of the study is to reveal the incon sistency of certain indicators intended to ensure environmental protection and recorded in the environmental programmes of the subjects of the Far Eastern Federal District with the long-term socio-economic development plans for the district. The research hypothesis is that regional environmental programmes and the indicators used in them do not fully correspond to the economic devel opment trends of the territory. The information base of the study included the National Programme for the Socio-Economic Development of the Far East, the “Environmental Protection” programmes of the region’s subjects adopted for 2020–2025, and data from Rosstat.

The article analyses the possibilities of transforming the export-resource development model of Eastern Siberia through the formation of interregional value chains. Based on a structural-functional analysis of the resource base, production capacities and infrastructural conditions, potential configurations of oil-and-gas, metallurgical and battery-mineral chains are identified. Key constraints and the most realistic directions for their development are determined. It is shown that the formation of interconnected chains contributes to value added growth, strengthening interregional integration and enhancing the sustainability of socio-economic development of the macro-region.

The research is devoted to the development of an algorithm for forming a strategy for public management of mapping the economic ecosystem of a territory in the context of digitalisation. The necessity of transitioning from a sectoral to an ecosystem approach in territorial management is substantiated, which makes it possible to visualise the relationships between economic actors and identify growth points. The proposed toolkit optimises managerial decision-making, provides a comprehensive view of the structure of the economic ecosystem, and contributes to increasing the competitiveness of regions.

The article proposes a conceptual model of an intelligent agent that combines the method of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) with the large language model DeepSeek. FCA formalises concepts and analyses data in the form of “object-attribute”. The article presents the theoretical foundations of FCA — formal contexts, concept lattices, Galois connections — and describes the capabilities of DeepSeek. The proposed hybrid model provides solutions to three classes of spatial development tasks: clustering of territorial objects, identification of implicative dependencies in spatial data, and decision support.