The current issue of the journal "Economic and Social Changes: facts, trends, forecast" traditionally opens with an article from the editor-in-chief, What a 30-Year Absence of State Ideology Leads to: “Great Nations Are Not Built Without Great, Guiding Ideas, and Having Lost Them, They Collapse with a Thunderous Crash”, which continues the cycle of publications, devoted to the analysis of expert opinions on the necessity and possibility of creating an official state ideology in the country. The urgency of this problem is due to both national security issues, which have sharply escalated since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, and national development goals related to the need to determine the image of Russia's future in the context of the transition from a unipolar to a multipolar world order.
At the present stage of economic and social development, issues of scientific, technological and innovative development of regions, problems of budget planning, territorial management, and socio-demographic development of society are coming to the fore. The results of research on these issues are published in this issue of the journal in the following sections:
1. Science, technology and innovation development:
“Economic Significance of Heterogeneity in the Innovative Development of Russian Regions in the Context of External Shocks” Ye.L. Domnich (Khabarovsk)
“Modernization of the Industrial System through Digital Intelligent Transformation and Green Development: Experience of Russia and China” Ma Hui (China), I.R. Cheplinskite, N.M. Rumyantsev (Vologda)
“Innovation Processes Staffing: Issues and Content” A.O. Averyanov, I.S. Stepus (Petrozavodsk)
2. Public finance:
“Budget Parameters of Metropolises and Their Impact on the Economic Development of Regions” V.V. Levina (Moscow)
“Reflection of Expenditure Priorities in Regions’ Budget Planning” – V.V. Klimanov (Moscow), E.N. Timushev (Syktyvkar), V.A. Vantrusov (Moscow)
3. Theoretical and methodological issues:
“Problems of Assessing Intangible Resources in the Implementation of Rural Development Policy” V.N. Rakachev, Ya.V. Rakacheva (Krasnodar)
4. Social and economic development:
“Structure of the Mass Strata of the Russian Population by Level of Subjective Well-Being” P.E. Sushko (Moscow)
“Economic Behavior of the Region’s Population: The Role of Socio-Cultural Factors in the Conditions of the Arctic” L.A. Chizhova, A.G. Tutygin, A.M. Maksimov, N.V. Koshunyaeva (Arkhangelsk)
“Substantiating the Choice of Regional Healthcare Effectiveness Indicators” L.N. Natsun (Vologda)
“Integrative Model of Socio-Economic Development of Human Potential: Adaptation to the Challenges of Modern Russia” T.D. Stepanova (Moscow)
“Volunteerism in Russia: Trends, Regional Differences and the Impact of Socio-Demographic Factors” T.A. Dolbik-Vorobey (Moscow)
“The Importance of Corporate Social Services for the Sustainable Development of the Company” N.I. Schmidt (Kazan)
5. Global experience:
“Restorative transitions at the crossroads: Multi-actor experiences of leveraging living labs” Antonia Caro-González, Olats Vallejo, Javier Albala (Spain)
6. Scientific reviews:
“Corporate Citizenship: An Overview of Scientific Publications” O.M. Shubat, A.A. Radishevskaya (Yekaterinburg)
“An Overview of Closed-Loop Economy Assessment Methods” E.O. Wegner-Kozlova (Yekaterinburg)
7. Monitoring studies:
“Public Opinion Monitoring of the State of Russian Society” K.E. Kosygina, I.M. Bakhvalova (Vologda)
The articles in this issue will be of interest to members of the academic and expert community, university faculty, public and municipal authorities, business representatives, and all those interested in economic and social development.
Full-text versions of the articles in the current issue can be accessed on the journal’s website.