The purpose of the study is to develop a proactive mechanism for managing the intellectual capital of Russian organizations and to characterize its elements to ensure effective solutions to the challenges of modifying the existing human resource management system to meet the needs of modern business and the challenges of the “new” economy. Modern achievements in the intellectual capital management in socio-economic systems have been analyzed. The paper used methods of system and structural analysis, synthesis, comparison, modeling, and description. A proactive intellectual capital management mechanism has been created to facilitate the timely identification of inefficiently implemented positions in intellectual asset management and the prompt adoption of relevant personnel decisions that support the processes of mission implementation and strategy achievement. The formed mechanism covers the entire range of issues related to human resources and considers the key specific characteristics of the functioning of a particular organization. Its practical use will not only improve HR processes, but will also become a pillar for all ongoing processes modernization, thereby ensuring synergetic effects manifestation, technological renewal acceleration, and a company’s innovative growth. The study is a valuable tool that sets the vector for developing management activities in Russian organizations and contributes to forming supra-professional thinking of managers and new approaches to doing business. 

The role of facilitation as a modern tool for developing proactive budgeting in the Russian public finance system has been studied. The research analyzes the theoretical and methodological foundations of facilitation, its functions and mechanisms of impact on the quality of interaction among authorities, citizens and public institutions. Facilitation is interpreted not only as a method of conducting group discussions, but also as a technology for organizing dialogue and joint decision-making, which helps to increase the legitimacy and effectiveness of budgetary processes. The study highlights the main functions of facilitation such as communicative, information and educational, project-consolidating, and conflict-based. It also reveals specific tools used in proactive budgeting such as brainstorming, SWOT analysis, the “world cafe” format, open space, prioritization methods, focus groups, and scenario modeling. Special attention has been paid to the analysis of foreign experience in Portugal, Brazil, and South Korea, where facilitation has become an integral element of the state policy of civic participation. It has been noted that in Russia, facilitation approaches, which have been actively implemented since the mid-2010s, require further institutionalization and regulatory consolidation. The study results show that facilitation in proactive budgeting contributes to civic engagement development, increases the efficiency of using budget funds, and strengthens trust in government authorities. The author concludes that in the context of digital transformation and the transition to an “open state” model, facilitation is becoming a key mechanism for creating a culture of participation and social partnership that ensures sustainable spatial development and improves the quality of public administration. Facilitation technologies have a high potential for integration into strategic and project management processes at the regional level.

The relevance of the research stems from the scientific and practical significance of implementing the China–Mongolia–Russia International Transport Corridor for the participating countries. The purpose of the study is to identify the geopolitical and geoeconomic factors, affecting the project’s implementation for all parties to the trilateral agreement such as Mongolia, China, and Russia, by achieving an optimal combination and balance of their national interests in its implementation. It has been hypothesized that the corridor is an effective tool and benefits all participating economies, particularly in terms of sustainable development. However, due to significant limitations in both physical infrastructure and geopolitical factors, it requires increased efforts by the participants for development. The study is relevant in light of the sanctions pressure on Russia and its desire to expand its export opportunities. It examines the border regions of Russia and China (the Republic of Buryatia and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) to identify the project’s impact on their socio-economic development through the intensification of their foreign trade through developing the ITC. A combination of general scientific and specialized methodologies has been applied. The study’s key findings and conclusions include proof of the ITC’s high economic significance for participating countries, highlighting minor risks for Russia and more significant ones for Mongolia. It also substantiates the importance of the time-sensitive nature of member countries’ economies for the corridor’s effective implementation.

The dynamics of technological frontier of Russian industries in 2019–2023 under the conditions of external shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2022 sanctions, has been studied. Unlike traditional DEA-based studies, the authors use a parametric approach based on log-log quantile regression to assess technological leaders’ behavior and the shift in the upper bound of production capabilities. Two models have been studied: a two-factor model (capital and labor) and a three-factor model (capital, labor, and material costs), which allowed for the distinction between capital and labor returns and resource adaptation effects. Based on data from Russian enterprises (2019–2023), an industry-specific assessment of technological progress and factor elasticity coefficients has been conducted. It has been shown that the 2020 crisis caused a short-term decline in technological frontier, followed by recovery, while the 2022 shock led to a longer-lasting decline, which was not overcome in most industries in 2023. The three-factor model has revealed the compensatory role of material efficiency in enterprises adaptation to external constraints. The most sustained growth in frontier has been observed in the IT sector, while the deepest decline has been observed in the automotive industry. The research findings clarify the technological leadership mechanisms and Russian industries adaptation in the face of external shocks.

The most important task at the present stage remains the transition to sustainable regional development. For the Far East regions, such a transition is becoming more relevant due to the current social and economic challenges and the existing territorial, demographic, and natural resource specifics. One of the key components in the transition to sustainable development is the physical capital of regions. The assessment of the physical capital state in the Kamchatka Krai as one of the key factors of the regional sustainable development has been carried out. The general indicators such as the physical capital volume dynamics, its current structure, depreciation dynamics have been analyzed. The analysis of the dynamics of the investment indicators such as the investments volume, the investments ratio to the physical capital cost, the investments ratio to the gross regional product has been carried out. A comparative analysis has been carried out for three levels – national, macroregional, and the Kamchatka Krai level. The cyclical dynamics of a number of indicators, as well as its similarity with the dynamics of similar indicators for the national and macroregional levels, have been revealed. According to the main types of economic activity, the linear correlation coefficient between the physical capital volume and the financial result has been estimated, and one-factor functions have been constructed to assess the relationship between these indicators. The conclusion has been made about the relatively prosperous state of physical capital in the region and the need to mitigate pronounced investment cycles.

Strategic planning for the construction materials industry development in conjunction with forecasting business processes has been studied. In an unstable external environment influenced by exogenous and endogenous factors, there is a need to change the approach to ensuring the development of business processes for economic entities involved in construction materials production and their long-term forecasting at the national, regional, and industry levels. The potential for qualitative changes driven by technological and digital innovations prediction and their integration into business processes has been studied. The paper analyzes approaches and tools for strategic planning with the optimization of business processes in industrial enterprises, which will subsequently result in quantitative changes, such as increased productivity and resource availability for business processes, as well as increased investment in fixed assets. It also focuses on the role of business process forecasting in adapting industrial enterprises to external factors and modern development conditions, which are influenced by factors such as digitalization and strategic planning for industrial production. The importance of a comprehensive approach to business process forecasting for the sustainability and adaptability of economic entities has been emphasized. The paper is based on a systematic and comprehensive analysis and review of statistical data on industrial development to ensure the objectivity and reliability of the study results. 

In the context of modern economic challenges, increasing a region’s scientific and technological potential is determined as a strategic imperative that ensures sustainable economic growth and achieving technological sovereignty. This dependence actualizes the need to design and implement an effective organizational and economic mechanism for developing this potential. The purpose of the study is to conceptualize the content of the organizational and economic mechanism for developing a region’s scientific and technological potential and to assess its functional role in ensuring the scientific and technological development of the Kirov Region. The methodological foundation of the research has been formed by the system-institutional approach and synthesizing methods of system and comparative analysis, scientific synthesis, and content analysis. The scientific novelty of the research lies in clarifying the definition of the organizational and economic mechanism for developing a region’s scientific and technological potential, as well as in formalizing its structure and system-forming elements. The organizational and economic mechanism for developing a region’s scientific and technological potential has been proposed to be considered as a system of tools and institutions that aims to develop scientific and technological potential and create a sustainable positive effect across a particular region through coordinating scientific, educational, and research institutions, government and business, as well as creating, disseminating, implementing, and commercializing new knowledge and technological achievements. The structural and functional decomposition of the mechanism has been carried out, within the framework of which its key components have been isolated and systematized into functional blocks: organizational (regulatory framework, institutional subsystem, including higher education organizations and research institutes, as well as program and strategic documents) and economic (infrastructure facilities such as technoparks, a complex of financial instruments, as well as programs for developing and retaining human resources). The issues of implementing the organizational and economic mechanism for developing the scientific and technological potential of the Kirov Region have been identified, and measures have been proposed to solve them. The study results can be useful for developing regional strategies and programs aimed at forming an effective mechanism for developing the region’s scientific and technological potential, as well as for improving the instruments of its state support.

The issue of digitalization in agriculture is becoming particularly important in connection with implementing the national project on technological provision of food security in Russia, the component of which is technological independence in technology and equipment. Digital tools for managing technical means are an integral trend in modern industrial development, and therefore there is a requirement to ensure the independence of agriculture from a foreign software product. The purpose of the study is to propose a system of indicators for industrial digitalization by areas and stages of the process, which makes it possible to develop a differentiated approach to industry incentive measures depending on its results. The digitalization assessment has been designed to identify achievements in the process of moving towards transformation based on implementing and integrating digital technologies into the industry. The paper presents the results of an assessment of digitalization in agriculture in Russia and the Krasnoyarsk Krai based on data from the Federal State Statistics Service, which revealed deficits in the basic means of digitalization. It has been revealed that agriculture in Russia and the Krasnoyarsk Krai, having not completed the initial stage (60–70% of the using digital technologies stage and 80–90% of the stage of labor functions digitalization and information security), demonstrates the need for measures to support the transition to the basic level of digitalization, which has been achieved by about 40% of agricultural producers and 10–15% of the industry’s employees. The information security of agricultural enterprises is 60% ensured by digital products of the basic level. The cost structure of industry players shows the dominance of costs for initial means of digitalization (30–40%) and a low share of costs for basic digital tools (4–12%). The necessity of stimulating the use of special software tools for obtaining, transmitting information, and other digital solutions for industry tasks has been established. Recommendations on managing digitalization in agriculture have been formulated.

The purpose of the study is to analyze the opinion of one of the prominent representatives of the Russian post-October emigration of the 1920s and 1930s, Prince A. M. Volkonsky, on the foundations of Russian statehood and Ukrainian separatism, set out in his original study “Historical Truth and Ukrainophile Propaganda” published in Turin in 1920 and long unknown to Russians, as well as a number of the author’s other emigrant publications. The paper substantiates the significance of A. M. Volkonsky’s contribution to the objective coverage of forming the Russian statehood foundations and the exposure of numerous myths of Ukrainian propaganda in this regard, the interpretation of which has bene given in the paper in the context of discussions taking place in the Russian diaspora (N. S. Trubetskoy, P. M. Bicilli, P. B. Struve, N .O. Lossky, P. N. Milyukov, etc.) on Ukrainians, the Ukrainian issue, and the issue of Ukrainian identity. The paper reveals the main directions of A.M. Volkonsky’s criticism relapsed into “Ukrainianism” as an ideology of Ukrainian separatism, which denied the historical and cultural unity of the Russian and Ukrainian people and insisted on the ideology of special “Ukrainian people” who allegedly existed from ancient times, having nothing in common with Russians, which in real political practice, as the author believed, fostered hatred of all Russians in the minds of Malorosses and created a real danger of alienation from the Slavic world and subjugation to the West of the native Russian lands, which had been called Malaya and Velikaya Rus since ancient times.