The approaches to the determination of place and role of the economic universities in the Russian education are examined. The idea of  universities performance assessment based on the appraisal of  intellectual capital is proposed and justified. The value of intellectual capital is defined considering the degree of achievement of  goals and objectives determined by the strategy of the university. The  main provisions of the strategy Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management are provided.

In the article the author’s line item concerning forming of strategy of long-term development of the state which shall pursue the  humanitarian aims, be based on the key values of the Russian  society correlated to economic tasks is stated. It is provided that  competitive advantages of the country will be able to be  implemented most. It is noted that in the conditions of the  developing tendencies of increase of technological threats in the 21st century, it is necessary to solve problems of socio-humanistic ensuring innovative development of the country. Promotion on the  foreground of social progress of a problem of a humanization puts  sociocultural priorities in the center of economic transformations that requires observance of necessary parameters of interaction of  economy and culture as two major components of activity of the  person. To become the leader of the socio-humanistic technologies reducing technocratic and globalization threats of a civilization by  means of culture – worthy, according to authors of article, a target  reference point of Strategy of social and economic development of  the Russian Federation until 2035.

Planning optimization of the enterprise work in conditions of risk and uncertainty appears to be a multi-level system models. On the upper level of the achievement of the strategic indicators is provided in the development and implementation of innovations in conditions of the greatest risk. Approval of strategic decisions with tactical plans based on the idea of risk management through the establishment of stochastic reserves. Organization of operations management appears to be iterative, moving process (to reduce risks in production) and can be implemented given the constraints of tactical management.

The article on the basis of statistics of the World Bank describes modern status of Russian economy against economies of other  countries. The main provisions of the programs of development of Russian economy,  drawn out by the staff of the Institute for National Economic Forecasts  of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the staff of the Institute of Economic Growth named after P.A. Stolypin, are also described. The  need for development of the financial methods, aimed at assessment of  efficiency of real investment and increase in cost of domestic  companies, for implementation of the provisions of the programs, eventually – for development of Russian economy, is justified.

The article offers a methodological approach to construction of the system of management of investment strategy implementation at the municipal level. New functionality for organization of investment activity and its distribution between services is offered in relation to the existing system of municipal formations management. Tools of stimulation, support and maintenance of the investment strategy by groups of investment projects, reflecting responsibilities of municipalities regarding development of social and production infrastructure, local economy, are developed as an element of the system of management of the municipal investment strategy.

The article considers the problems of the analysis of the environmental safety in Russia against the world community. The  research describes the experience of formation of the environmental  indicators by various international organizations (IEA, OECD, World Bank, ECE etc.). A parallel was drawn with the Russian statistical  database and the differences were revealed. A unique indicator  system was formed, it is reasonable to use it at the Russian and  international level for the analysis of the environmental safety of the  territories. The suggestions for enhancement of the indicator system, used for assessment of the environmental state at the world and  domestic level, were developed. The algorithms of measurement of  the environmental sustainability of various territorial units were  offered. A complex of economical-mathematical and statistical  methods was used to carry out the study. The groupings, typologies  and classifications of the countries by the level of the environmental sustainability were obtained as a result. The problem points,  aggravating the environmental situation of the territories under  investigation, were also revealed, and the ways to overcome them were pointed out.

The aim of this work is to show features of the population morbidity dynamics of the Siberian Federal district and its regions for the period 1995–2015 on the background of changes in the population morbidity of the other Federal districts of the Russian Federation. It is shown that the SFD is consistently ranked the first places in many of the main classes of diseases, and first of all the main contributors to the mortality and disablement of the population. The first places in morbidity in SFD combined with the younger age structure of the population than in Russia on average. In the SFD the Altai region stands out sharply in a negative direction with the highest morbidity.

Euthanasia is one of the controversial and still unsolved medical-deontological, ethicreligious, moral-legal, social-philosophical issues,  attracting attention of national and international science today. In this  regard the article analyzes various points of view on such complicated  target of study as euthanasia; its features are revealed and the need for applied statistical studies in this field is defined. The circumstances,  transforming statistical evaluation of the scale, extent, efficiency and  other parameters of euthanasia at the present stage into a serious  research and practice issue without the only one and universally  recognized solution, are revealed.

The article considers the features of the social and economic infrastructure of the regions of the Arctic zone of the Russian  Federation, issues of evaluation of the level of its development using  statistical methods in conditions of non-formed information base. A method of adjustment of original statistical data, based on  demographic and territorial adjustment coefficients, is offered; it  makes it possible to evaluate the condition of infrastructure and  dynamics of its development of the part of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, located in the Arctic zone. The  characteristic of the social and economic infrastructure of the Arctic  territories is given; it includes the spheres of education and science,  healthcare, culture and leisure, sport, housing and utilities,  transport, information and communication technologies, construction, public catering, public service, energetics and trade. The technique of  adjustment coefficients for retrospective analysis and time series formation is applied. The main directions of development of  the social and economic infrastructure of the concerned territories are discussed.

The behavior of participants of economic interaction sets the condition in which an economy functions. Economic actors make their financial decisions under uncertainty. In this context, we can say that the research  problem is the evaluation of conditions of sustainability of a financial  system as the dynamical capital accumulation process. Some among the economic subjects can act opportunistically what means pursuing one’s own interests with harming others. The article investigate the  formalization of financial instability hypothesis (FIH). Based on the  research, the model of a financial cycle of the company was proposed.  The model takes into consideration the manipulation of financial  statements.

The article deals with the problems of accounting and analytical support for sustainability management of an organization in the context of functional components of information area of management. The structure of accounting and analytical systems under the conditions of information environment forming of the balanced sustainable development of an organization has been identified.

In this paper there are several main points: the necessity of FDI definition and the interconnection of a term and real subject of  interest; problem of data sources and the choice among them are  discussed. Methodology of data collection for each indicator should  be taken into account because of the variety of data sources: the  interpretation should be valid to the data, awareness on different  types of data allows using them together to provide more precise  analysis. This research was made as an overview of available  statistics on micro, meso and macro levels. An important purpose of  this paper is to demonstrate and substantiate incompatibility of data  taken from different sources and necessity to use valid tools of  analysis for different indicators of the FDI activity, correctly interpret the results for models based on different types of data and different research questions. Conclusion of this research is enforces by  graphical analysis, summary statistics and analysis of spatial interconnection among regions estimated for various indicators of FDI.

The article carries out an analysis of the existing methodological approaches to formation of a finance strategy of a corporation; the practicality of the existing tools regarding formation of a finance strategy of a telecommunication corporation in the Russian Federation is critically described. In particular, the authors characteristic of the following methodological approaches to formation of a finance strategy of a company, widely-spread in Russian economic literature: modified Du Pont factor analysis, concept of the «sustainably increment rate» of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), matrix model by J. Franshon and I. Romane, ADL/LC model of strategic management by Arthur D. Little and some others, which rest upon and perfect the mentioned approaches, is given. The authors methodological approach on the basis of the ADL/LC model of strategic management by Arthur D. Little is offered; it improves the basic approach relating to the analysis of prerequisites for diversification of economic activity and change of the competitive environment of the corporation, determination of the channels of translation of strategic financial goals to operating level of management, analysis of the impact of macroeconomic indicators on target financial performance. Within the framework of the model of strategic management by Arthur D. Little the author offers the tools of strategic and operating target setting as necessary improvement, in particular: target performance indicators of financial management for telecommunication corporations in the Russian Federation in linkage to the forms of public quarterly financial statements. Apart from introduction of the additional requirements to the tools of formation of a finance strategy, approbation of the offered target performance indicators of financial management at strategic and tactical level by the example of the analysis of the dynamics of the financial reporting indicators of Megafon Public Company for the period of 2014–2015 was carried out. The interpretation of the obtained coefficients, characterizing quality of financial management of Megafon Public Company within the offered financial strategy, is given.

The article considers the problems of the system of pension insurance in the Russian Federation at the present stage of development. The issue is important because modern pension system under current conditions of transformation of Russian economy needs reformation. Relevance and necessity of raising of efficiency of the current distribution and accumulation system of pension insurance are caused by significant economic problems, formed in the country as a result of crisis manifestation in economy, as well as insufficient ability of basic institutes of pension insurance to secure their long-term stability and sustainability, and to provide pensioner with decent living standards. Urgent development of the Strategy of long-term development of the pension system of the Russian Federation, approved by Order of the Government of the Russian Federation as of December 25, 2012 N 2524-p, which marked a new stage of reformation of the pension system with setting of the goals of increase in life of pensioners – reaching 40 % of the coefficient of earning replacement rate and reaching the ratio of pension not less than 2–2,5 of the set cost of living of a pensioner, is also indicative of the crisis state of the system of pension insurance and coverage. Besides, new pension federal laws, which formed institutional bases of a new pension reform, have been introduced since 2015.

Food security is an essential condition for sustainable development of the country, its national security, especially in the context of the global crisis and the turbulence of the world economy. Therefore, the development of food industry is an important task of the government. The special significance of the food security aspect is  determined by such factors as availability, economic accessibility and ecological safety of food. The authors carried out a study of the  Russian food industry and defined the prospects of its further development in the context of the import substitution strategy. The  article presents the food industry growth model. It is based on a  modified Cobb-Douglas production function and it involves an  innovation factor. Typology of Russian regions in terms of  development of the food industry was obtained on the basis of adapted portfolio analysis matrices. The databases of the Federal  State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation and the dataline monitoring of the economic situation in Russia were the basis of the study.

The goal of research is the analysis of the current established regularities, typical of wage of staff of small and medium-sized enterprises, relating to three dimensional categories, focused on 14 types of economic activity and located in different regions of Russia. Preliminary results of the complete enumeration of activity of small and medium-size business for 2015 were used as initial data. The research was based on comparison of the indicators in business sector and full circle of enterprises and organizations, as well as comparison of wage level in total of small and medium-size enterprises in each constituent entity of the country with the levels of the cost of living.

The article presents an analysis of basic foodstuffs consumption by the population of Russia for the purpose of economic and physical availability of food. The article reveals the main tendencies to the change of consumption volume and structure, estimates the degree of achievement of efficient consumption standards. The article evaluates the basic foodstuffs consumption by the population of Siberian Federal District and analyses the regional variability of consumption indices. It enables to reveal the certain problems relating to provision of food availability for the population.

Today one of the main factors of effective functioning of economic agents, including those integrated with the state, proves to be innovative ideas and information, which are formed in the field of social and informational interaction. The parties of the interrelations in the field of information technologies are both legal and physical entities, as well as state authorities and public and private partnerships. The article is devoted to formation of the conditions of competitive growth of Russian integrated companies via transition of the latter to informational and technological phase of development.

The article offers the authors approach to diagnostics of the level of use of innovation and resource potential of Russian territories. Ongoing, average and dynamic results of the functioning of the regions and federal districts are processed on the basis of the official statistics data. The evaluation of the spread in values of main regional indicators for a long period of time is made. The interrelation of the specific economic and infrastructural factors is justified. Key directions of the development of the depressive territories are defined.

The authors investigate the questions of the credibility of educational institutions, trying to determine the specificity of interactions inside these institutions. The problem is raised of using the category of confidence in order to assess the quality of interaction between major participants of interactions in educational environment. The authors focus on the problem of differentiation between trust in educational institutions (level of interpersonal trust is personalized, the level of impersonal trust, institutional trust level) and the problem of operationalization of the concept of trust. The authors present the results of original empirical research and on this basis demonstrate the situation with trust at school as an educational institution, analyze the factors affecting the credibility of school from the parents’ side.

The article reveals the need for teaching of the subjects, presuming organization and carrying out applied study concerning a specific subject, caused by the transformations in higher school with regard to implementation of the provisions of the Bologna Declaration, aimed at improvement of the quality of education. The place of the «Methodology of applied studies in business statistics» and «Methodology of applied statistical studies» in the curriculum of the bachelor degree program regarding 38.03.01 Economy («Business statistics and analytics» and «Statistics» profiles) is considered. The offered subject and organization procedure for applied studies within the teaching process, relying on experience in their conduction at NSUEM, are presented.

The article studies the matters regarding the risks, which may arise in the process of strengthening of a company according to the method of  creation of the second publication or acquisition of the existing media. The theory of «cannibalism» by Jean-Jacques Lambin in relation to media is reviewed; the theoretical analysis of the possible scenarios of the theory development is carried out as well. Besides, the possibility of assimilation of the image of the acquired publication, as well as strengthening or altering own image, is analyzed.

A critical analysis of the existing approaches to analysis of the state of competition on the basis of determination of the level of economic concentration is carried out. The authors approach of the basis of the analysis of market participants behavior, based on evaluation of activity of buyers in change of sellers when making purchases is justified and offered; its advantages in comparison with the accepted approaches are registered. Approbation of the approach by the example of the evaluation of the state of competition at the housing services Internet access services markets in Novosibirsk is carried out.

The article considers the impact of Airbnb platform on the hotel sector in St. Petersburg in general, as well as in certain districts of the city.  Proceeding from the target audience of Airbnb hypotheses are made as to how the service may impact occupancy of the hotels. The results of the study prove the  hypotheses of various impact in central and bedroom districts of the  city, uneven impact on the rooms of different comfort category; dependences on the number of accommodation services,  presented at the service, their proximity to the hotel and prices are  revealed as well. The model also includes the factors, not directly  related to Airbnb: proximity of the hotel to metro, hotel room  capacity, price of accommodation and rating at Booking.com. The  article explains possible reasons of the obtained results.