Forecasting the sustainable development of the oil and gas complex
An analysis of the key indicators of the provision of economically recoverable hydrocarbons reveals an imbalance in the resource base of the oil and gas industry in Russia. The gas industry will have a resource base for decades to come. The Russian oil industry is limited in its development by the reduced amount of recoverable oil. This is due to the depletion of resources in the traditional centers of oil production. The strategy for developing the oil industry is complicated by significant costs both in the development of remote areas of Eastern Siberia and the development of deep horizons in the oil provinces, particularly in southern Russia using the potential of small businesses. In this regard, the updated implementation of the sustainable development of oil and gas complex is necessary.
Problems and perspectives of innovative development of the industrial system in Russian Arctic regions
This article has studied the specific role of the northern regions of Russia in the processes of modernizing the economy, which is defined by the fact that their industrial system is aimed at the raw production sector, as well as at a large investment potential. We have shown several lines of improving the innovative policy determined based on expert assessments.
Time and Heritage
As a historian studying what can be considered a form of intellectual history, I have slowly come to adopt Michel de Certeau’s observation made at the end of the 1980s that ‘objectifying the past, for the last three centuries, has undoubtedly left unconsidered time within a discipline that has continued to use it as a taxonomic instrument’. To a certain degree, time has become commonplace for the historian who has preserved or instrumentalized it. It is not considered because it is inconceivable, but because we do not think of it or, more simply, we do not think about it. As a historian attempting to pay attention to the time I’m living in, I have thus, like many others, noticed the swift development of the category of the present until it has become obvious that the present is omnipresent. This is what I refer to here as ‘presentism’.