The transition to a post-industrial, information society development stage is characterized by a significant change in the role of the main production factors and resources (land, labor, capital). The article analyses the new production resources content in the face of increasing the role of “digital” capital that is invested in information technology, automation, artificial intelligence, robotics and so on. The “digital” equity reflects information basic property - the ease and low cost of replication in conjunction with the global and application simultaneousness. The authors show that this type of capital begins to dominate as the main point of growth in global wealth and competition. A well founded conclusion is made that for the production of “digital” capital national sovereignty is no longer a barrier what makes wars for material resources, labor and intellectual capital, meaningless, but intensifies the struggle for access to the “head” of consumers.

One important area that identifies and characterizes a lot of aspects of economic, social and political life, is economic security. The problems of economic security approaches to its definition, content, mechanisms of interaction with other spheres of social and socio-economic life of society, require a complex historical, scientific, logical and philosophical approach. The article explains the thesis that it is marketing planning of economic security based on application of strategic maps, will be a tool for the solution of national economic and political problems in the global competition.

This article examines contemporary problems of management of innovative development of the Russian economy through the mechanism of public-private partnerships (PPP) at the Federal and regional levels, presents the author’s interpretation of the concept of “public-private partnership”, the main features of the PPP. The necessity of priority infrastructure projects under PPP in the context of modernization and intensification of innovative transformation of the economy.

The article is devoted to individuals involved in private investment. It discloses the essential characteristics of private investors, their classification and shows the criteria that distinguish private investors from qualified investors.

Article is devoted to assessing the factors affecting the effectiveness of social protection systems in Russia in terms of the analysis of its funding. Indicators that determine its effectiveness and the factors influencing the formation of the modern state and the social welfare system in Russia are considered.

This article considers practices of applying contemporary methods of planning and substantiates the need to use earned value management as a factor for reducing the risks inherent in construction companies’ operations.

A company success means a skill of fast adaptation to changes of market conditions and to surpass the competitors by quality of production, speed of service, wide assortment and low price.Competitiveness, being one of the basic criteria of company’s activity evaluation, is not an immanent element. Management of competitiveness is a combination of actions for controlling of advantages.

The article considers the development trends of oil and gas industry in Russia, the main problems of functioning of the complex, examines the effect of various factors on the development of the industry, including and the imposition of financial sanctions in the spectrum of the latest developments in the global community. The main directions of strategic development of the sector within the framework of import substitution are outlined.

Modern multimedia tools allow you to represent a variety of information, escorting it with colour, sound and aromatic effects. The impact of colours, smells and sounds on the perception of information is used in various fields of human activity. This work is devoted to the peculiarities of the influence of colour, smell and sound on the effectiveness of human information perception.

Management of the educational process is considered as a social technology, producing results with the specified parameters. Federal State Educational Standard, as normative document for the management of the educational program, sets these parameters in the configuration of competences and defines the basic educational technology to achieve them. Ideally, that guarantees results to be a quality “manufactured product”. But in practice, the implementation of the program faces a number of problems of subjective and objective character. The ongoingtechnologisation of learning process rises the importance of system approach to its management.

This article deals with the promotion of educational services of the Higher School. The number of the most frequently used marketing communication instruments includes: advertising in press, TV and radio advertising, outdoor advertising, printed and souvenir materials, exhibitions and fairs associated with education, open days, scientific conferences and seminars, on-line advertising and other forms of online communications, creation and maintenance of the official site of the university, the maintenance of pages and public pages in social networks and others. The article carries out the analysis of the basic resoures and methods of marketing communications used by the leading Moscow universities for promotion their services.

A working definition of Inet-social network and method of its researching based on a review of known concepts of social network is offered. A model of its stratification as a complex system is developed. Strata main functions are identified and described. The role of the Inetsocial networks in modern communications is considered.

The author explores the institution of the state of the twentieth century. The paper presents the basic views of foreign scientists involved in the study of the state of post-industrial society, namely, such as Francis Fukuyama, Adam Przeworski, Alvin Toffler, Manuel Castells, Spengler, Patrick Buchanan. At the same time, the views of Russian scientists - D.I. Mendeleyev, N. Alexeev are considered. Material is provided with a comparative table of changes in the number of electoral democracies, which allows us to consider the evolution of democracy in the countries of the world community, in the interval from 1990 to 2010. The author assigns a special role of the state and government in the Russian Federation.

Analysis of the employee’s personalities and temperaments of any collective makes a basis for the managerial solutions. Extrovertness and internalness are the parameters opening a possibility to estimate both a boss’ and an employee’s abilities. The paper deals with explanation of extrovertness (in C. Jung’s terms) using current tendencies in psychology.

The article considers issues related to the legal regulation of the general rules of investigative actions and characteristics of the order production of certain investigative actions in Russian criminal procedure.

Since Russia has ratified anti-corruption conventions the problem of legal recognition of the legal person criminal liability again attains a high priority. Problems of legal regulation of economic affairs are in the author’s view related first at all to the failure of means currently acting under the law to protect effectively that sphere of social relations from criminal intrusions. An attempt to analyse the genesis of such institution in the foreign law and its current state is made.

Management of the educational process is considered as a social technology, producing results with the specified parameters. Federal State Educational Standard, as normative document for the management of the educational program, sets these parameters in the configuration of competences and defines the basic educational technology to achieve them. Ideally, that guarantees results to be a quality “manufactured product”. But in practice, the implementation of the program faces a number of problems of subjective and objective character. The ongoingtechnologisation of learning process rises the importance of system approach to its management.

The article considers the main forms of using special knowledge, its practical application in the investigation of iatrogenic crimes.