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The article discusses the history of establishment of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Committee (SASAC), as well as its structure and its formal and real competences. Despite the extent of the powers this authority was granted when established, its actions are restricted through the interests of other actors in the institutional structure. The author studies in detail competences of SASAC regarding the practices of appointment of topmanagers of SOEs, control rights in state enterprise assets and control rights in management of SOEs.

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of formation of investment strategies of regional industrial complexes taking into account the impact on production processes. The analysis of the factors influencing the dynamics of investment activity in the Federal districts of the country and regions is carried out. Special attention is paid to the measures of state support reflected in the policy documents aimed at the development of territories, increasing their socio-economic attractiveness, competitiveness and economic independence. The purpose of the article is to identify the main conditions and factors of formation of investment strategies of regional production complexes, to study the potential and prospects for the development of industry under the condition of active regional and Federal support. To achieve these objectives, we studied the growth rates of investment in fixed capital of industrial enterprises, the goals of industrial and investment development in the framework of the target program indicators, presented the distribution of investment per capita by region, as well as a comparative analysis of the actual and planned indicators of investment activity on the example of the far Eastern, southern and Volga Federal districts.

Main methods: dialectical method of cognition of processes in the sphere of economy and social development, method of system analysis, formal logical method. As a result of the study, proposals for improving the state and regional investment policy in the process of formation of investment strategies of regional production complexes are formulated. Conclusions are made about the validity of the measures taken and the preferred tools of support in the process of economic growth of the country.

This article presents the study results of the energy service market in the Republic of Tatarstan, generalized the business model for improving this market. The model revealed the scheme of regulation and management of the market, revealed the interest of business and the benefits of this activity, both for the customer and energy service companies, as well as third parties and the rapid growth of researches in this area. This model performs a number of functions, a management structure that enhances market regulation was developed, as well as its impact; the result of implementation was calculated; internal and external factors that affect the energy service market were highlited. The volume of the energy service market was calculated; the effect of the implementation of our recommendations was calculated.

The autumn of 1986 was marked by the sixth session of the USSR Supreme Soviet (the eleventh convocation). There the issue of the activities of the People’s Control Committee (PCC) of the USSR was discussed. It caused a lively debate among the participants of the meeting. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of the USSR People’s Control Committee’s report in the context of the perestroika reforms. To achieve this goal, historical-systemic and historical-genetic methods were used. The article shows that the Committee’s report at the meeting of the USSR Supreme Soviet became the starting point for the shaping of control reform in the country. The author analyzes the activities involved in preparing the report of the PCC, the speech of A. Shkolnikov (the Chairman of the PCC), and main participants’ criticisms directed at the Committee, as well as the Plan for follow-up actions to the USSR Supreme Soviet Resolution “On the activities of the People’s Control Committee of the USSR”. The USSR PCC and the USSR Ministry of Finance have prepared practical recommendations for a public administration large-scale reform, which essence consisted of managerial and legal transformations in order to centralize both departmental and interdepartmental control. The aim of the reform was to improve coordination between regulatory bodies significantly and to refine regulations in the area of control. Nevertheless, the proposals were not implemented due to a change in the control reform concept by M. Gorbachev and the CPSU.

The second part of the study covers the period of formation and development of the environmental policy of the Russian Federation (since 1991). The article analyzes the process of formation of new legal framework for nature management in the transition period (1991–2000), characterized by a radical transformation of the institutional structure of environmental management and adaptation to market regulatory mechanisms. The article considers the stage of institutionalization of environmental policy in the systemic period (2000–2022), including the creation of a federal vertical of environmental management, the development of a regulatory framework and the integration of environmental priorities into strategic documents of state planning. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the current stage of transformation of Russia’s environmental policy in the context of external restrictions (since 2022), characterized by the need to ensure environmental security in the context of geopolitical challenges and import substitution. The study reveals trends in the development of Russian environmental policy and determines promising areas for its improvement in modern conditions.

The article is devoted to an analysis of the Greek Orthodox cemetery in the Şişli district of Istanbul as a complex historical source for the history of the Russian presence and emigration on the Bosphorus fr om the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The focus is on one of the largest and best-preserved Orthodox necropolises in the city, wh ere over the course of one and a half centuries the presence of people from Russia has been recorded — from pilgrims, diplomats, and clergy of the pre-revolutionary period to refugees of the first wave of emigration and their descendants.

The study is based on materials from cemetery registers and parish metric books of the Şişli Orthodox cemetery, as well as archival documents preserved in the archives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. It is shown that, in conditions of fragmentation, loss, and lack of description of state, consular, and émigré archives, necropolis-related and church documents in many cases constitute the only sources recording the fact of residence, death, and burial places of subjects of the Russian Empire in Constantinople-Istanbul during the Ottoman and Republican periods.

Special attention is given to the source-study specificity of the necropolis complex, including the combination of material sources (tombstones and epitaphs) and documentary materials, issues of preservation, transliteration and linguistic distortions, as well as practices of reuse of burial sites. The article concludes that the Greek Orthodox cemetery in Şişli has high scholarly value, making it possible to reconstruct migration, demographic, and socio-legal aspects of the history of the Russian abroad and to expand the chronological and territorial framework of research on Russian emigration in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey.

The Soviet Information Bureau, along with the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, was the largest information agency of the USSR. Despite its widespread popularity, some aspects of the activities of the Sovinformburo are still poorly understood. In the article this news agency is considered as a mechanism for forming a positive image of the USSR abroad. The chronological framework covers not only the period of the Great Patriotic War, but also the post-war period up to the closure of the organization in early 1961. The research focuses on the functioning of the Sovinformburo the evolution of the agency’s activities, the reasons for the reorientation to the foreign policy information front, mechanisms of interaction with foreign mass media and public organizations. The article attempts to assess the effectiveness of the work of the Sovinformburo abroad, identifies the factors that contributed to the agency’s achievement of its goals, and identifies the reasons for the difficulties that the leadership of the Soviet Information Bureau faced when working abroad. The author concludes that throughout its twenty-year existence the Sovinformburo has successfully served as a tool for shaping a positive image of the Soviet Union abroad.