Russia's principal problem at the end of the twentieth century is to end the experiment to develop a nation within the framework of state totalitarian socialism and to make the transition to a variant of postindustrial society. Only in that case will Russia have a future in the twenty-first century.

Our journal is continuing to introduce the readers to Nobel Prize winners in economics. The present issue publishes an abstract of a collection of Milton Friedman's selected works.

At the request of Ekonomika i zhizn readers, G. Popov, mayor of Moscow and chairman of the Russian Democratic Reform Movement (RDRM), shares his views of the current socioeconomic situation.

V. Seliunin's article posed a question of special importance: whether restructuring [iperestroika"/i] essentially amounts to changing the management mechanism or whether it should also affect the actual economic strategy of our development. Our economic strategy is realized in planslong-range...

Under the conditions of the rapidly changing situation generated by the development of iglasnost'/i and the entire course of iperestroika,/i it is very important to define the principal directions of our journal's future development. We, the editors of iVoprosy ekonomiki,/i have thought about...