The article considers the prospects for the use of the index ratings in predicting socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, critically analyzes the existing methods of indicative planning and the ways of solving problems facing the practice of regional management tasks.

An article about the dialectical laws of the genesis of social organization and social systems. The author suggests using a new classification of social relations for the methodological study of the evolution of social systems. The work is based on the methodology of general systems theory and...

Article about the role of Protestantism in shaping the conditions for successful social and economic development of the state. The author compares the Orthodoxy in Russia and European Protestantism as the ideological foundation of ensuring social stability and social progress of the state.