The article is devoted to the external economic factors of modern economic strategy in the context of trends in the global value added chains. The basis of the economic policy of the modern world economy is a set of measures to promote the development, the elaboration, mastering and implementation into mass use of new knowledge in the field of high technologies and modern services by developing, first of all, the knowledge consistent with state strategies for economic growth. The effectiveness analysis of certain factors of the modern model for the world economy, civilizational features of the factors determining the implementation of the financial mechanism, their influence on the economic situation of the largest economies of the modern world economy, allowed the author to make empirical generalizations and conclusions, to propose an assessment of national regulatory measures that allow states to practice multi-vector foreign policy, which determines the transformation of global and regional architectures.

This article is devoted to the study of trends in the development of project management in Russia and substantiation of the importance and needs for its application at the level of public authorities in the form of priority national projects and programs aimed at ensuring the breakthrough scientific, technological and socio-economic growth. The need to accept new challenges of the time is due to the policy of digitalization of world economies. Such activities cannot be realized without the implementation of project management, involving a high level of organization, systemic approach, careful planning and competent management. However, differences in the economic development of several regions in such large countries as Russia hamper that process. The conducted study provides a meta-analysis of modern statistical data from numerous international scientific studies, strategic government documents and project reports. The projects were considered from the point of view of public administration and regulation of the process of their implementation. The data collected shows important practical insights into project management application as a way to solve the issues of economic and digital disparities in different regions within a country. As part of the study, some risks were identified and analyzed, what resulted in proposition of ways to solve potential and emerging issues.

The article discusses current aspects of reforming the EU gas market, increasing the uncertainty and risks in the supply of Russian gas to Europe, Gazprom’s position in the EU market. It studies the possible role of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the energy supply of the EU and evaluates the competitive positions in Europe of the pipeline gas from Russia and LNG from the USA. The issues of transit of Russian gas through Ukraine to Europe are analyzed.

BRICS is a completely new phenomenon in modern international relations, an embodiment of a new, changing world reality. The modern financial policies of the leading Western countries have led to tensions in the world ‘s financial centres and the need for financial policy reforms. The EAEU and BRICS states are interested in coordinating positions in the field of the world economy and in carrying out settlements in national currencies. All of these tasks require a modification of the existing financial system and the creation of an international alternative.

The new strategy of Russia’s foreign economic policy aimed at strengthening the sovereignty and independence from external pressure is largely contrary to the principles of a market economy. Because of that the related difficulties arise in solving emerging challenges in the development of the Russian economy.

Issues of North Sea Route development are considered. The possible influence of external factors over the Arctic policy of Russia is analyzed through the prism of the Arctic Doctrine adopted by the US Department of Defense (DoD). The importance of Polar Sea Passage is demonstrated via connection with the start of mining operations in order to understand the extent of the infrastructure scale and maritime fleet required for that.

The article is devoted to the issues of reducing the environmental impact in the aspect of atmospheric emissions of substances that can cause global climate change. The investigation is based on the assumption that halving carbon monoxide emissions by 2050 will reduce the increase in average surface temperature to the level of the pre-industrial stage of human development. In this aspect, the environmental protection activities are considered in accordance with international agreements in which the Russian Federation is involved.

It is proposed to use a carbon footprint as an indicator of the impact of humanity on the climate system, which cumulatively takes into account the greenhouse gas emissions as a result of human activity at the stages from the production of material goods to their consumption and subsequent disposal. The indicator is considered in two aspects: an estimate of direct emissions for which there is full control, and an estimate of indirect emissions that occur during the product life cycle and are less controlled.

A study of the carbon footprint arising from the activities of one of the Moscow universities was made as an example. The ratings were compared with the “Green Metric” rating. As a result, it was proposed to take into account additional indicators characterizing indirect emissions. Those studies allow us to develop and implement new programs aimed at reducing the environmental impact of an organization and increasing its energy efficiency.

The article considers a story of establishing and operation of the Japanese concessions in the Soviet Far East, with a special attention to Coal and Oil enterprises as two major concessions in the Sakhalin region, during 1920^th – 1944.

The extracted coal and oil amounts and the investment capital inflow during the mentioned period are focused and examined.

The article discusses issues related to the participation of the USSR in the struggle for a more equitable structure of the global monetary and financial system. Victory in the Great Patriotic War allowed the USSR not only to speak on equal terms to the West in the field of geopolitics, but also to avoid the trap of falling into a subordinate position in another equally important sphere – monetary and financial. The introduction of a system with a single currency backed by gold – which is exactly what happened at Bretton Woods in 1944 was a real revolution for the whole world. After 1945, it is the dollar, not gold, that becomes the world money, or rather, the only world currency. The USSR refused to join the Bretton Woods system, since that did not correspond to its status as the victor in the most brutal war in history. And in response, trade and political steps were taken to create intercountry associations based on the principles of mutual benefit and the provision of benefits to the weakest members of those associations. In April 1952, the formation of the “non-dollar” segment of the world market began, including socialist and many developing countries. That was a real breakthrough, since it called into question the principle of monopoly functioning of the dollar system. Opportunities for the formation of a sovereign, dollar-independent multilateral currency system are there at the present time too, while reformatting of the existing international currency system has not yet occurred.

Currently, there are various approaches to studying the activities of the Soviet state during the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet and Russian historical and legal literature. The War of 1941–1945 was one of the most significant events in the history of Russia, still affecting the demographic processes in the country and its development in general. Hundreds of scientific and journalistic works are devoted to that period. The issues of the activities of state bodies in organizing the resistance to enemy at fronts, the work in the rear in various industries and agriculture, and activities in the field of international relations and culture have been well studied. However, the issues of protecting health, reproduction and natural movement of the population have yet not been studied enough, especially in the aspect of regions, where a big part of the population was under occupation. The authors of the article put up a task to reveal the role of the state and legal mechanisms for implementing a set of measures to protect the health of civilians and to impact on demographic processes during the war years.

The article is devoted to the legal system of Third Reich and its characteristic features, such as its essence, origin and qualification, as well as sources of law (and their hierarchy in dialectical development).

The priority feature of the Third Reich legal system is considered to be the elimination of law as a legal source and an individual as a legal subject, which gives Nazi law the character of a social system that can only function in a state of emergency and martial law, when the rights and freedoms of man and citizen are limited or canceled. In order to justify and introduce national socialist law in Germany (from 1933 to 1945) national lawyers worked out its classification according to the types (methods) of mentality. Being employed in the legal system of Nazi Germany, the classification to a large extent stimulated the violation of such concepts as law and legal right, transforming many reasons for eliminating any type of dissent into the legal ones.

As a working hypothesis the author puts forward an assumption according to which the goal of the Third Reich legal system and its political ideology was that of molding standardized national mentality that regulated people’s behavior in the way wanted by German Nazi.