The article presents the results of research on the development of the structure, methods and technologies for managing the Unified Energy System (UES) of Russia in the context of the digital transformation of the electric power industry. The analysis of the experience of managing complex socio-technological systems (STS) on the example of the UES of Russia and modern achievements in digital technologies resulted in defining the main directions of the formation of a network-centric approach to ensuring the reliability of energy supply to consumers and the country’s energy security in normal operating conditions and in emergency situations. A comparative analysis of the structures is carried out and examples of practically implemented fragments of the above systems are presented. The article also presents the stratification of control loops and the structure of ontological modeling for the functioning of the entire UES control system. It defines and mathematically substantiates the algorithms for forming decisions for the managing the power facilities in the level range from of the National Crisis Management Center to the operational personnel responsible for maintaining the mode of power systems and power facilities. The given examples of operating systems, SISFEC (state information system of the fuel and energy complex) and SRMS (stability reserve monitoring systems) actually confirm the correctness of the selected solutions of the network-centric approach to managing the UES of Russia. The provisions set out in the article determine the direction in developing the digital control systems for STS. 

 In the article the authors give an assessment of changes in trends of the consumer behavior in the context of the CoVID-19 pandemic. It is shown that care for health and safety of oneself and loved ones in conditions of social distancing, forced homing and blurring the boundaries between work and home are main drivers for changing the consumer practices of Russian citizens, introducing the new creative ways of consumption and the emergence of deferred demand. The authors show changes in consumer attitudes towards home space, self-care increasing. They conclude that due to self-safety and digitalization trends in consumer behavior have changed so significantly that consumers will not completely return to their old habits after the end of the pandemic. New technologies and digitalization are making significant changes in the consumer lives and practices. 

The article considers the poverty issue as that of a clear threat to the successful socio-economic development of Russia. It gives an assessment of measures aimed at overcoming and shows the role of social contracts not only as an opportunity for the formation of new sources of income for self-sufficiency, but also as a basis for the formation of a new system of human values, the ability to determine his own life in the new economic reality. The article also identifies the ways of solving that issue in the conditions of increased risks in the context of overcoming the consequences of coronavirus. 

 The article concerns with the role of projects and project activities in the economy of the country and its enterprises. The article considers the evolutionary changes that have occurred in recent years in understanding the content of the words “project” and “project activity” in the scientific literature, in regulatory documents and at the household level. on that basis, those concepts’ content is clarified. The authors show that currently in Russia and in the world there is a tendency to increase a number of projects performed and to increase their role in the society’s life. Against that trend’s background, the new society’s economic development model is being formed – the “project economy”, implemented in practice not through the usual market mechanisms, but through a multiple system of projects. It means that a significant part of the future economy, including the enterprises’ economy, may consist of a huge number of projects permeating it at the macro-, meso- and micro-levels that are hierarchically interconnected in space, time and among themselves. The article formulates eight basic conditions that are relevant for most projects and that include specific actions which, if completed by the time the projects are launched, can create the necessary prerequisites for the successful goals’ achievement approved in each project. It also highlights an importance of taking into account in all decisions on the projects’ development and implementation, the features of the technological processes and equipment adopted in them for use. The latter are considered by the authors as the foundation on which all other possible options for actions can then be purposefully built, ensuring both the project’s preparation for launch and its successful and effective implementation. The authors believe that the project economy is an integral part of our common economy, which is why it will not displace the market economy from the life of society, but will co-exist more or less amicably with it. Just as the market economy co-exists today with planned economy’s elements in the any enterprise’s activities. 

 Within the framework of integration formations, various countries show excellent macroeconomic dynamics, which in theory should be determined by the form of integration, economic union, but also depends on many other factors and conditions associated with a particular country. Thus, the standard comparison of the dynamics according to the indicators chosen for that becomes insufficient, because of difference in the quality of that dynamics which revealng is useful from the point of view of the further development of the economic Union of countries. Thereby the purpose of the study is the formation and application of a methodology for assessing the stability of macroeconomic dynamics, measured by the rate of GDP growth using the example of the Eurasian Economic Union countries. The research methodology is an empirical and structural analysis, a method for constructing phase portraits by F. Takens, which allows defining the degree of stability of dynamics on a selected time interval by the properties of an attractor. The method is a step in the algorithm of the proposed methodology for assessing the stability of macroeconomic dynamics. In addition, the author proposes the minimum necessary system of indicators required to characterize the development of the countries – members of the Eurasian Economic Union. The result of the study in the applied sense was an assessment of the stability of macroeconomic dynamics by the GDP growth rate of the Eurasian Union countries, a comparative analysis of the dynamics. The use of the sustainability assessment methodology allows it to be included in the classic version of the macroeconomic analysis of economic development, having obtained conclusions regarding the sustainability of growth, with the prospect of determining the factors that ensure such dynamics, as well as the economic policy instruments that can affect the dynamics of GDP by its components and sectors in order to improve the sustainability of growth. of the countries of the Eurasian Union, only Kazakhstan shows a positive growth rate over the entire time interval, although its fluctuations are quite significant. The assessment of stability naturally leads to the elucidation of the reasons for the differences in that parameter of dynamics, which is a promising scientific problem that requires its solution. 

 The article reveals the evolution of Poland’s investment policy and the peculiarities of the formation of the country’s legal system for the protection of foreign investments. The article describes the current stage of development of the Polish economy, reveals the role of foreign investment in the modernization of the national economy. The article discusses the controversial issue of the role of the European Union subsidies in the transformation of the Polish economy. The issues of trade, economic and investment cooperation between Russia and Poland are analyzed separately and it is concluded that the anti-Russian foreign policy of Poland hinders the development of the trade, economic and investment cooperation between the two countries. 

In the presented paper considers the issue associated with the depletion of traditional energy resources (coal, oil, peat, natural gas). Such a situation turns up in a process of their usage as a factor in the deterioration of the environmental situation in terms of Russian Federation transition to a model of a sustainable economic development. The article analyses the possibility of alternative raw materials using based on secondary plant biomaterials as a renewable substitute for the energy supply sources. A tendency of growth in the biomass consumption for energy generation in European countries, the USA, Canada is highlighted. The characteristics of the main economic advantages of its application are presented, along with a notion of the special importance of ecological component. The conducted research is a priority and promising direction for the world economy and energy, and the analysis of basic technical and economic features of various types of the waste biomass and the reasoning of its utilization ways can serve for its well-targeted and full-fledged usage as an energy resource. 

The article presents a review of the evolution in approaches to assessing the countries sustainable development in the world and Russian practice. The presented research includes an analysis of the world practice assessment for the effectiveness in sustainable development, relevant methodologies, indicators and their modifications in modern conditions. The author characterizes the current issues in developing indicators for measuring the sustainable state of countries with different levels of development. She also highlights difficulties in the cross-country comparison of those indicators and considers the most important aspects of the sustainable development assessment, such as indicators and investments. The main directions and approaches to the sustainable development assessment for Russia are determined at the current trends of the national economy development. 

The article considers some of the macroeconomic results of 2020 for the global economy and individual regions and countries of the world. The authors identify a number of distinctive features of the global economic crisis of 2020 and its impact on the dynamics of macroeconomic indicators in individual regions and countries of the world (the Eurasian Economic Union, the European Union, and China). It is noted that during the crisis, negative trends in the world economy and politics became more acute and fundamental contradictions between the main participants in the world economy became tougher. At the same time, a high level of mutual dependence of the economies of the EU, EAEU, China and other Eurasian states was noted. Despite the crisis conditions and unfavorable political rhetoric, economic interests and the implementation of all – Eurasian projects can become a unifying factor for overcoming the crisis and forming new development models based on rational policies and the common benefit of the states of the Eurasian space. 

 The growing issue of attracting private investment in the Russian economy from year to year gave rise to the development of new measures of support from the state in relation to organizations implementing an investment project, which also form the most favorable investment climate in the country. Such preferences, which consist in a stabilization clause, are contained in the new Federal Law No. 69-FZ of 01.04.2020 “on Protection and Promotion of Capital Investments in the Russian Federation”. However, based on the conducted research, it is concluded that there are a number of legal imperfections, which are expressed in a number of conditions, non-compliance with which entails the inadmissibility of concluding an agreement on the protection and promotion of investment between a private and public person. At the same time, those provisions are so unattainable, infringing and limiting that the question of the expediency of the analyzed investment law will be justified. That is why proposals were made to adjust the rules, which would allow widening the range of persons entitled to state support and thereby attract their capital as an investment in the Russian economy – that is, to achieve the goals originally set. 

Holding the Speransky conference [Speranskie Chteniya] has become a tradition at the Institute of Economics, Management and Law of the Russian State Humanitarian University. The topic of the conference is devoted to current issues of management in modern Russia. Its distinctive feature is an interdisciplinary scientific approach that addresses economic issues and closely related to them those of the management, jurisprudence, history, philosophy, intellectualology, sociology, political science etc.