О журнале

The Russian Academic Journal is one of the fundamental scientific publications on the territory of South of Russia, Greater Caucasus, Central Asia, Ukraine and Indochina, which are conducting an important mission on spreading in the international academic community works of Russian, Ukrainian, Caucasian and Asian scientists relating to regional range of problems; annually this journal publishes more than 120 scientific articles in Russian and English languages concerned with economy, management, political science, philosophy, philology, mathematics, informatics, chemistry, biology, geosciences. Authors of these articles are famous scientists from China, Ukraine, the USA, India, Afghanistan, Great Britain, Russia and other countries. Members of editorial team of the journal are working in three continents: Europe, North America and Asia, in six countries: Russia, Ukraine, India, Great Britain, the USA and Afghanistan.

In accordance with the resolution of the members of the editorial board, which has been drawn up on the meeting in the George Washington University (Washington, DC), starting January, 2014, the regional subjects make the domain of problems of the Russian Academic Journal. By general repute of the editorial board members, the international community fairly well understood any global processes, but as regards local, especially regional processes, there are considerable gaps. So, international members of the editorial board of the Russian Academic Journal are waiting from their authors any qualitative actual data relating to processes and events in their regions which are unavailable in any other scientific publications or in the Internet.

The general partner of the Russian Academic Journal is the Southern University (IMBL) (Russia, Rostov-on-Don). Publisher of the journal is the Research Institute “Institute for Political and Media Metric Research” with its DOI prefix (10.15535).

In the journal the main scientific results of theses on competition of a scientific degree of the doctor of science can be published. The journal is included in the Russian Index of Scientific Citing (RISC) of National electronic library of the Russian Federation, InfoBaseIndex, GoogleScholar, OCLC WorldCat, ROAR, BASE, OpenDOAR, RePEc, JournalTOCs, OAJI, ISI (UAE), DOAJ, Fedora (DURA SPACE), CrossRef, PORTICO, Ulrich`s (ProQuest), Exlibris, Socionet and funds of Library of the Congress of the United States of America.

The Russian Academic Journal represents a new generation of academic journals acting on the grounds of the principle of open access. As the scientific articles should be maximally wide spread, the Russian Academic Journal does not apply the copyright law for to restrict access and use of published material. On the contrary, the copyright law and any other legal instruments are applying for to achieve a continuous open access of journal audience to all articles published by the journal.

On its site the Russian Academic Journal uses a Canadian IT technologies development– the all-powerful content management system in the Internet, integrated into the Library System for North America and in the Index system of North American Universities – Open Journal System (OJS). Switch of the journal at a totally new level made it possible to enter into several international databases of scientific citing.

The Russian Academic Journal is one of those few journals in the south regions of Russia, which is assigning to each article of each author the international identifier of scientific article, DOI.

For to publish any scientific articles in the journal it is necessary to be registered as an author on the site of the journal and to get in contact with the executive editor of the journal:
E-mail: chief@wolfcorner.org

#3 Vol 29, 2014

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Alexey Fedorov, THE UMBRELLA REVOLUTION
The last Sochi Economic Forum emphasized that the Russian business failed to have a full realization of the fact that the world has changed. It became more Asian. The number of those who attended the block revolved around economic sanctions against Russia, manifold exceeded the audient of the....
Victor Apryshchenko, SECURITIZATION MODEL AND REFERENDA-2014 IN SCOTLAND AND CATALONIA
The article deals with role of historical memory in the context of two referenda which have been held in 2014 — in Scotland on the 18th of September and in Catalonia on the 9th of November, although not recognised by the Spanish government. Both of them reflect the issue of how the imperial....
Viktor Gusak, FORMATION OF REGIONAL CLUSTERS AS A FACTOR IN THE INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT
The aim of the research is to study the role of clusters in securing of regional development, particularly in enhancing the investment activity through the introduction of new regional mechanisms regulating these processes. In the article the importance of innovation and investment component of....
Olena Kaminska, THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO THE REGIONAL ECONOMY MODERNIZATION
The aim of the article is studying of the theoretical approaches to the Ukrainian economy and its regions modernization. In the article historical aspects of definition of concept of modernization, the main priorities of modernization of the Ukrainian economy are analyzed. Preconditions of....
Igor Ivanov, Vadim Volovoj, Geopolitics of Kazakhstan: Theory and Practice
Article analyzes geopolitics of Kazakhstan, examines how it should look like in accordance with classic geopolitical theory and how it does look in practice, in particular in case of Kazakhstan membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which....
Aleksei Susidenko, CLASSIFICATION OF THE FACTORS OF ENTERPRISE FINANCIAL SECURITY PROVISION
The author performed the analysis and the classification of the factors of enterprise financial security provision. The article contains\r\nthe detailed analysis of certain classifications of the term “financial security” explained by Ukrainian and Russian scientists.\r\nThe author both....
Mykhailo Gedz, REGULATION OF STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE ECONOMY OF UKRAINE
The purpose of the study is to develop suggestions to improve the government structural policies in the economic sphere.\r\nWorld experience shows that during the restructuring the role of government in regulating the economy is growing. Its high effectiveness\r\nin practice has been proven by....
Yuliya Tkachenko, Vladislav Pustova, APPROACHES TO THE DEFINITION OF CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION: DISCUSSION POINTS
In the context of the existing relations between Russia and Ukraine issues of cross-border cooperation acquire special relevance. It displayed in the possibilities of common solutions of current challenges and using the potential of adjacent areas of neighboring countries. Subject of research....
Natalja Chorna, THE PRIORITIES OF DEVELOPMENT OF VERTICALLY INTEGRATED STRUCTURES
Ways of attainment of the competitiveness are different for each enterprise, but, at the same time, they have a mutual feature, i.e. an enterprise cannot become a competitive one without the implementation of strategic plans of its development. Despite the diversity of strategies enterprises....
Viacheslav Chushenko, APPROACHES HOW TO DEFINE THE CONCEPT AND STRUCTURE OF THE INNOVATIVE POTENTIAL IN THE REGION
The main goal of this article is the study of approaches how to define the concept of innovative potential in the region and determination\r\nof its structure. The main approaches how to define the basic scientific concepts of innovative potential in the region have\r\nbeen systematized. The....
Yevhenii Kharlan, TENDENCIES AND FEATURES OF THE FORMATION OF FOOD SECURITY IN THE UKRAINE
Goal of the study is to identify the trends and characteristics of the formation of food security in the territory of Ukraine. In the article the essential meaning of food security, described the key indicators which are offered which make advisable to assess the level of food security.....
Inna Fedoryshina, HUMAN CAPITAL A PART OF SOCIAL CAPITAL
The article considers the content and the structure of human capital. The term “human capital” is viewed as people’s abilities to participate in the production process in order to make use of their potential skills. A particular attention is paid to the meaning of social capital and its....
Svetlana Savina, FUNCTIONS, MODELS, AND FORMS OF THE INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPANY
The article contains a study of the dependence of the enterprise on the competitiveness of its innovative activity. Experts highlight factors refraining the innovative development of production: the absence of financing (85.7%); high expenses (40.3%); considerable credit rates (38.7%); a....
Galina Denisova, MODERN MIGRATION TREND IN THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA: A NEW CHALLENGE?
Modern challenges of foreign policy in Russia might have a potentially prolonged impact on socio-economic and political situation in the southern parts of the country and create a new frame to tackle external migration and attitude of locals to it. This issue is investigated on the basis of a....
Natalja Zamkovaya, ABOUT SOME ASPECTS OF “COLONIAL RACISM”
Current article is dedicated to the issues of racism as one of the most important factors of language-cultural discrimination. Basic\r\nideas of postcolonial racism and the phenomenon of post-modernism in racism study have been analyzed. Foreign and Ukrainian\r\nscientists’ views upon the....
Olena Berezina, Maksim Petrovskiy, EVALUATION THE INDICATORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CAPACITY OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM: METHODIC AND PRACTICE
The goal of this research work is the formation of methodological approach of ecological factor assessment impact on the development level of territorial economic systems. This article presents the quality indicators of the development of socio-economic areas, which reflect total level and the....
Hryhorii Melnychenko, PECULIARITIES OF IMPLEMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENTS IN UKRAINE
The aim of the research is to identify the problems and peculiarities of implementation of environmental investment in Ukraine. The determinants of modern social development are presented in the article, the principles of modern strategies of social and economic development of the country are....
Egor Shevelev, SCREENING METHODOLOGY: VISUALIZATION IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES
The paper problematizes methodological status of visualization in digital humanities . Digital humanities offer a critical comprehension of the social, epistemological and methodological effects of using computer in contemporary humanities. The process of knowledge production is considered here....
Alexey Fedorov, EDITOR’S PICK
In the autumn of 2014 in the city of Rostov-na-Donu, under the auspices of the Rostov Scientific Elitological School, a milestone scientific e vent — international conference “Leader, Elite, Region” — took place. The editorial stuff of the Russian Academic Journal closely followed....
Alexandr Mikhaylov, Sergey Vorontsov, INFLUENCE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEDERAL AND REGIONAL ELITE ON SAFETY OF THE STATE
Sometimes the term “elite” loaned from foreign socio-humanistic disciplines is not easy corresponding with modern Russian realities. And more special it concerns political elite. The possession of a whole number of personal and moral qualities was a sign of belonging to elite of its....
Yakov Plyays, ON THE ELITOLOGICAL THEORY OF A TRANSIT SOCIETY IN MODERN RUSSIA
These theses represent some thoughts and ideas cast by the analytical review of doctor’s and master’s theses on the elitological subjects of the recent two decades. As of now, elitology has not been well developed in Russia. Perhaps, the only full-fledged elitological school of thought is....
Svetlana Kusina, Alexander Ponedelkov, Vladimir Moiseyev, PATRIOTISM AS A MORAL POSITION OF THE POLITICAL ELITE IN MODERN RUSSIA
The current political conditions dictate a necessity to revise the public opinion of Russia’s role in the world. The situation generated\r\nby the Ukrainian events has caused patriotic feelings in the Russian society. These feelings combined with the current prospect of\r\nmutual relations....
Alexander Ponedelkov, Alexander Starostin, Sergey Zmiyak, LEADERSHIP AND ELITE PROJECTION OF REGIONAL POLITICAL PROCESSES IN RUSSIA (FOLLOWING THE PANEL SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES)
The submitted research is devoted to estimation requirements to a leadership component of political management in modern Russia\r\ngenerated as realized by experts and in popular consciousness. This paper presents and analyzes experts and public opinion poll\r\nfindings in several regions of....
Yury Radachinsky, THE LINES OF INTERACTION BETWEEN CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE STATE IN FORMING THE REGIONAL POLITICAL ELITE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The present report is devoted to advanced topics in formation of regional political elite of Russia. The author makes a cause for involvement representatives of civil society to activities aimed at development the system of requirements (competences) to senior executives of subjects of the....
Liliia Martynova, HUMAN POTENTIAL AS A FACTOR OF COMPETITIVENESS FORMATION IN THE NEW SOCIAL-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
The results of the investigations of the competitiveness of human potential in the new social-economic conditions were analyzed\r\nby the author. There was also accentuated the fact that it is necessary to create the prerequisites for the increase and regulation of\r\nthe staff competitiveness at....