The article examines the latest NATO Strategic Concept of 2022, its purposes and tasks, as well as how it affects European security and security of Russia and China.

The Ukrainian crisis has become one of the most acute military and political crises in Europe as well as in the World since the end of the Cold War. It has emerged as the result of the ongoing security dilemma, a situation in which reinforcing the security measures of one of the conflict sides inevitably leads to the other side’s responsive measures, hence the confrontation aggravates. The article defines the role of the Donbass factor in Russia’s foreign policy.

The article is devoted to the current views of the US administration on the development of human capital in the defense industry and armed forces. From this angle, the author analyzed a number of key US government documents. In his opinion, the US experience in this area can be useful in developing a personnel policy in the Russian military-industrial complex.

The article provides an overview of the positions of the parties of the German parliament on increasing the defense budget as well as increasing the German military presence beyond national borders.

The goals of the sanctions imposed are declared to be the maximum damage to the Russian economy, the destabilization of the domestic political situation, and the change of the political system in the Russian Federation. In such conditions, questions arise about the goals of economic warfare and the minimizing damage to the national economy.

The social and solidarity economy (SSE) is traditionally defined as the forms of economic organization, focused on economic activity and the extraction of income, used for the needs of society and managed on the basis of democratic principles. SSE structures reproduce relations of mutual aid, solidarity, cooperation, equality and collectivism.

The article examines the models of social and solidarity economy in six Asian countries – Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, China, Malaysia and South Korea. 

The article examines the main trends in the development of economic policy in Russia and the EAEU countries during the crises of 2020 and 2022, the specifics of the «transition» to socially oriented macroeconomic regulation, the formation of a loss compensating system from crises of non-economic nature.

The article deals with the analysis of ethnic entrepreneurship through the prism of marginality and related problems, the combination of ethnicity and local entrepreneurial practices in it. Attention is paid to elucidating the motivations of local rejection, including in Russia.

The open confrontation between Russia and the collective West, expressed in economic and information war and the Special Military Operation in Ukraine, is in an ideological sense a battle for Russian traditional values. The domestic system of traditional cultural and moral values is designed to save not only the Russian world, but all of humanity from the evil called “Nazism”.

Ensuring the rule of law in the licensing sphere is of particular importance for society, given the wide practical distribution of the licensing system, which includes a complexly organized mechanism of regulatory authorities that affects non-powerful subjects. The implementation of the licensing procedure, which traditionally acts as part of the legal regulation of most sectors of the economy and many areas of the social sphere, inextricably accompanies the implementation of strategic national priorities.

The article describes the peacekeeping mission on the Dniester, emphasizes its unique nature, which allows for decades to maintain peace and stability in a region of the world that is troubled from a geopolitical point of view; analyzes the causes and possible consequences of the failure of the negotiation process to resolve the Transnistrian conflict; gives a forecast regarding the most likely scenarios for the development of the situation in the region.