The author proposes and substantiates the conception of efficiency of regulatory controls on the territorial systems, depending on the compliance of these controls with the systemic nature of the object of regulation. In this regard, the perception of territorial systems as environments of self-organization and objects of the regulatory controls is specified. The author defines the conditions of stable functioning of such systems, pattern of their transformation and the main types of regulatory controls, and criticizes the ideology of governmental regulatory controls on the territorial systems via support of “points of increase”, and on the situation in singleindustry towns.

The article is devoted to an integrated approach to the study of processes of precarization in the world and Russia. The author shows that depending on the used methodology and identify of the precarization's source, the phenomenon of formation of a new social class - prekariata - will be assessed (qualitatively and quantitatively) differently. Various research concepts, putting into focus the role of public policy, or economic and technological change, or transformation of attitudes, will operate by various aspects of precarization.

The author analyzes the Bank of Russia statistical data on the accumulated foreign direct investments in the Russian Federation on January 1, 2015.Special attention is paid to the structure of accumulated investments by countries and economic activities and the specifics of Moscow. The article considers the evaluating possibility of the role of offshore capital in the Russian regions and factors of regional differentiation on this indicator.

The article discusses some aspects of the political and administrative networks. Considering the management of political networks, representing the most complex type of social networking, because of the high degree of nonlinearity and uncertainty occurring processes, there are not comprehensive studies to determine the mechanisms controlling such network entities. This article describes one of the possible approaches to identify key actors in the network to formulate several mechanisms of the whole network control.

The author raises the question about the causes of the crisis state of European culture. The article considers the ideological aspects of liberalism as the semantic foundations of the European culture. The article identifies the internal problems of the liberal ideology. The author draws the conclusion about the need for a new understanding of liberal values based on Christian roots of European culture.

The article is devoted to the «development» of N.M. Karamzin’s political preferences that is associated with the three phases of its gradualwithdrawal from the system of values and goals of the Masonic «Westerners», based on the revolutionary dismantling of Russia as the center of the Slavic-Orthodox civilization in favor of the management model, similar to the ideology «samobytnichestva».

According to the author, the turn of Russia to the East makes particularly relevant the revival and development of the Eurasian idea in Russia. Russia as a bridge between Europe and Asia, as a civilization at the turn of the cultures addressed in the political dialogue as peace of the East and of the West, is valuable clear for the Russians and foreign policy audiences. This can be seenas the civilization almission of our culture, and positive foreign policy image of the Russian state.

The article questions the conventional wisdom regarding the imminent exhaustion of mineral resources and mineral and energy resources. The development of modern technological solutions will allow improving the completeness and comprehensiveness of resource use and significantly prolonging the depletion of specific fields. In addition, scientific and technical solutions, which open the possibility of the development of the vast resources of unconventional hydrocarbons, will contribute not only to the expansion of the national mineral resource base, but also to improvement of the efficiency and-competitiveness of the national economy as a whole.

By analyzing the place and role of meat products in the diets of modern man the article shows the dependence of the individual (person) not only on its essential needs, but on historically developed socio-economic relations.