Challenges of Implementing Rating System for Knowledge Assessment at the Russian Higher Education Institutions -- An integrated approach to assessing the forest resource potential of the region -- Smart technologies as a factor affecting the economic efficiency of oil and gas companies: the case of Russia -- Precariat as a Challenge to the Development of Regional Human Resources: Economic and Medical Aspects -- Trust as a factor of interaction efficiency -- Staffing of Cluster Initiatives in Russia -- Influence of Human Capital on Innovative Development of Regions -- Modeling the production of GRP regions of the North of Russia -- Russian-Chinese relations in the Far East: the problem of exports and imports -- Modeling the Impact of enterprise bankruptcy on unemployment rate -- The model of consumption in a regional cluster of meat and related products -- Incomplete Passenger Fare at Commuter Trains.