Vol. 17 No. 1 (2015)

In his speech at the Gaidar Forum on January 15, 2015 Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev touched upon the state of the Russian economy, the development of its relations with the outside world.

January 14, the VI Gaidar Forum was opened at the site of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, it was traditionally organized by the RANEPA and the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (The Gaidar Institute) with the support of the Yegor Gaidar Foundation. The Gaidar Forum has gained a reputation of a serious club for business people - politicians and businessmen, scientists and experts - becoming equal to major international politico-economical forums, opening a new calendar year and creating an agenda for the upcoming discussions of specialists. Proposals expressed from the tribunes of the Academy those days were of particular importance due to close attention to them from the Government of the Russian Federation, which annually requests the proceedings of the Forum on the results of the discussion for further analysis and practical application of expert advice. The journal «Public Administration» publishes a detailed report of the discussions from the Forum about the current economic situation and the possibilities of radical structural changes in the economy of the country. The author thanks the staff of the IPAM RANEPA Zaira Abdurashidova, Tatiana Lavrenova and Igor Pankratov for help in information collection.

The article covers the problem of the efficiency improvement of the personnel policy. Conditions of the modern life dictate new requirements and, above all, requirements to personnel, to people who will control the state and municipal service. On the basis of the Vologda region example, the author examines the experience of the implementation of the innovative regional HR projects under the single brand «Governor’s team». The implementation of such projects can be useful for other regions.

The article reflects the main theses of the author, presented in his speech at the section «Personnel vector of public administration development in modern Russia» of the Gaidar Forum. The author believes that the main task of the civil service today lies in staff professionalization increase, preservation and development of talents.

The article is based on the speech at the section of the Gaidar Forum-2015 “Personnel vector of development of public administration in modern Russia.” At present the effectiveness of state management is associated with the development and implementation of mechanisms which ensure the effectiveness of professional activity of civil servants. The model suggests a reorientation of budget and management processes from resource to result consideration. In addition, in the new social conditions the system of public administration needs more and more authority with the citizens and support of civil society structures. This is possible only in conditions of improving the quality of professional activity and education of civil servants. The author considers in detail the educational programs of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation in the direction « Public and municipal management», in particular the introduction of a new program for Russia - Master of Public Administration (MPA), which must increase considerably the quality of training for public service in future.

The author substantiates the necessity of creation of a unified system of the state financial control that must have both clear goals and achievement plans, as well as the institutional mechanism of their implementation. The financial control is stated as an owner’s rights protection institution. The presented level scheme of the owner’s interests protection, whether state or private, is based on the above - mentioned postulate. It is noted that a compromise in the inevitable conflict of interests of public and private property must be reached through the special institutions (rules and procedures), allowing to minimize its negative effects, without opposing these interests, but creating a unified set of goals of interests protection.

The author considers the «generic function» of the Federal Treasury - state financial control. Public control is stated to be the most effective control type, which can be ensured through publicity and transparency of the state government and administrative bodies’ activities. The transparency of the budget process is of particular importance in this issue - from the budget preparations to the performance report and external audit results. The Federal Treasury being an operator of the state information systems provides an access to the information on the efficiency of the budgetary funds use. The risk-oriented control method allowing inefficient spending reduction will be of especial significance. However according to the author the sphere has a number of problematic issues requiring further elaboration. The proposed measures will help to ensure the methodology uniformity, to increase the effectiveness of the control and audit activities at the expense of optimal number of inspectors and auditors.

Complexity and singularity of the problems in the Arctic Region are considered by the author in the article. The Arctic Region strategic role in general safety, higher vulnerability of the natural environment, presence of large natural resources reserves, uniqueness of ethnic groups residing there, defense, scientific and ecological importance for the countries of the region and the whole planet dictate the need for coordinated actions by all the states concerned. The author considered in detail large experience of international cooperation in the Arctic Region and its significance amid modern trends towards globalization, which place all-time complex problems in the face of the international community.

The conversation of the Deputy Editor - in - Chief of the scientific and political journal «Public Administration» Tatyana Ilarionova with foreign participants of the Gaidar Forum - Ngaire Woods (United Kingdom) Professor, the Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and Professor Pan Suk Kim (South Korea) the President of the Asian Association for Public Administration dealt with contemporary problems of the theory and practice of management.

The article covers the main directions of criticism of state corporations used as a reason for inclusion of the corresponding list of questions into the documents of the civil legislation reforming and for taking measures to reduce the number of state corporations. The main directions of criticism referred to issues connected with legal nature of the state corporations, individual regulation through laws, absence of constituent documents, lack of general regulation of state corporations, high risk of corruption, reduction of their economic effectiveness.

The article covers processes in а large (bureaucratic) organization management system acting in the urgent tasks mode. Processes are discovered to be similar to those in manufacture and logistics supply chain management. A pattern of tasks assignment and execution in the above - mentioned companies is described as a system with two streams inside: descending (information about task) and ascending (resulting document or some other result of an accomplished task); besides the objective laws of these processes are defined. Conclusions about the reasons of the problems of often use of the operating control by the top-management and guidelines how to avoid these problems based on the analysis of several large organizations’ management practice are given.

The article defines the main directions and measures of the demographic policy of the Russian Federation. Detailed statistical analysis of change indicators of the demographic situation in the country is carried out. The author makes a conclusion that thanks to the implementation of the active state demographic policy in recent years the natural population decline has been replaced by natural growth, increased total fertility rate and life expectancy.

The article covers the current trends of the Siberian Federal District border regions development. It is emphasized that these trends are key in the formation of the modern threats to the economic security of the border regions. The authors analyze the main indicators of the regional economic security. The analysis results show a clear decrease in the level of the economic security of the border regions in comparison with the hinterland regions. It is shown that the main threats to the economic security of the border regions of the Siberian Federal District in 2014 were a low level of diversification of their economies, inability of the economies of these regions to grow sustainably (low volume of the gross regional product per capita), high dependence on imports of key products for these economies, export volumes reduction.

The modern society as a social-economic system acquires new forms that need deep theoretical conceptualization. In this regard the concept of cognitive capitalism represents one of the actual analysis directions allowing revelation of key contradictions specific for the modern phase of social development. Prerequisites of cognitive capitalism becoming, various approaches to research of this phenomenon, opportunities and restrictions of a new paradigm are considered in the article.

His article examines the structural changes in the western PR / COM industry, the author relates the processes taking place on the Russian communication practices. A comparative analysis revealed important trends of the Russian PR / COM industry. The continued increase in the scope of online communications and of social media while preserving a significant development potential. The gradual phasing out of the global economic recession _ makes corporate and public sectors to rebuild their own strategies towards their relations with the outside world. Coming to the fore control of external calls, the ability to respond quickly, and most importantly - to identify the socio-political and economic trends at the stage of their origin. It is noted chtonesmotrya on multispeed mode, the general movement of the Russian industry is in line with global trends.

The article analyzes the indicators of quality of care and delivery of health services in the regions of the Volga Federal District. An SWOT-analysis of the quality of the health care system was carried out in the Republic of Mordovia, which resulted in recommendations to improve its effectiveness.

The problem of waste management is highly relevant, as is evidenced by the development at the level of the Russian Federation Government's strategy for the management of municipal solid waste, which provides for the establishment of an effective management system. A key role in ensuring the implementation of this strategy is given to public authorities and local self-government. The article describes the experience of an integrated approach to solving the issues in this area in the city of Vladivostok. The conclusion that is reached is that the provision of a proper system of waste management is implemented as well as to attract investments in this sector of the economy, possible only when using an integrated approach and program-target method.

This paper attempts to analyze the relevance and effectiveness of government programs for the development of agriculture, based on statistical data, opinion polls conducted by the Center for Family and Demography of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan in the municipal areas. It reflects the ratio of federal and republican support for the development of family farms. There is a presentation of forecasts of experts about the prospects of farming, expressed by the heads of rural settlements in the municipal districts of Tatarstan. Designating the deterrent trends and constraint of planned sustainable development of rural areas - the lack of willingness of the population to engage in agriculture. The most significant form of aid, according to the heads of rural settlements, needed by the people to interest themselves in the conduct of agricultural production at their private households, have already appeared in grants by the State. However, the social reality of peasant farms is the lack of sufficiently reasonable terms of subsidies necessary in the normal marketing of products, generating appropriate prices that allow private growers to feel worthy participant in active employment.

The article reveals the history of theatrical language as a universal means of communication. The differences of the main stages of the formation of the theater, the relations between the theater and geopolitics, borrowing from theatrical life of not only terms, but also of images. Also reflected is the impact of geopolitics opposite the theater.