State-of-the-Art in Russian Agriculture: Production, Farm Structure, Trade, Policy and New Challenges

This article is devoted to the modern state of Russian agriculture, which has made significant progress in recent years. The authors cover three major areas of agricultural development: changes in the structure of agricultural production, trade development, and agri-food policy. The article concludes by listing the major challenges Russia must address in order to maintain its position in the national economy and in global markets. The article is based on academic studies by the Institute of Agricultural Studies (InAgRes) at the Higher School of Economics - HSE (Russia)

Der aktuelle Zustand der russischen Landwirtschaft: Produktion, Betriebsstruktur, Handel, Politik und neue Herausforderungen

Dieser Artikel stellt den modernen Stand der russischen Landwirtschaft vor, die sich in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich weiterentwickelt hat. Die Autorinnen behandeln drei große Bereiche seiner Entwicklung: Veränderungen in der Produzentenstruktur, Handelsentwicklung und Agrar- und Lebensmittelwissenschaft. Der Artikel endet mit einer Aufzählung der großen Herausforderungen, die Russland meistern muss, um seinen Binnenmarkt zu schützen und seine Position auf den globalen Märkten zu behaupten. Er basiert auf den wissenschaftlichen Studien des Instituts für Agrarstudien (InAgRes) an der Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Russland

Prospects of the Chinese market for Russian agri-food exports

One of the major targets of modern agri-food policy in Russia is a significant increase of agri-food exports — almost twice as much by 2024. In this projection, China is viewed as the most promising market. However, Russia’s entrance to the Chinese market faces a number of constraints. In addition to the standard difficulties associated with Russia’s agricultural and food exports (export infrastructure constraints, expensive logistics, and import bans on certain Russian products), there are fundamental constraints on supply to China in the long-term. This paper formulates a long-term view of the prospects of, and risks associated with, introducing Russian agricultural products into the Chinese market. Methodically, the paper is based on an evaluation of competitive performance by the conventional method of measuring a country’s comparative trade advantages with the Balassa index. Also the authors use trade statistics of Comtrade, Russian and Chinese national statistic agencies, estimates of international analytical centers such as World Bank, USDA, OECD, McKinsey

Ideological Phantoms of Civilisation and Culture: Identity and Tolerance

The article considers the philosophical aspect of defining the immanence and attribution of the concept of “tolerance” to the culture itself. The subject of the research is especially relevant due to the modern processes that are happening in the global world, and the difference in key methodological positions of modern Russian and Western science on this issue today. The purpose of this study is to clarify the philosophical basis of the existing opposition of societies with traditional ethical cultures (Russia, China) and the ‘new-type’ poly-state European ethnic community. Based on the analysis of current social processes in Russia and Europe using the comparative historical method, modelling methods and model extrapolation in the field of culture studies, social psychology and political science, the article identifies the main approaches to ethnic and social identity, their cultural and ideological components. The authors prove the hypothesis that culture requires designation of its border with another culture, recognition of this border, which distinguishes and confirms cultural semantics. Denial of this fact is a method of ideological manipulation of the ethno-social consciousness of society in the framework of globalisation processes

Application of Digital Twin Technology for Modelling of Information Security Level of Industrial Plant

Maintaining the high level of information security at all stages of production is one of the most important tasks of modern industrial plans. In this case, the complex (integrated) approach plays a special role in which information security is realized on maximum number of automated systems and communication channels. The article is devoted to the mechanism of modelling the realization of external and internal information security threats by means of digital twin application. The presented model is a generalized digital copy of all industrial automated systems