In the newly released issue of the Russian Expert Review №1 (24) New Resources of Russia, experts discuss what resources are available for our country in short-term perspective and what are competitive edges of Russia.  

Russia has always been proud of its natural resources base. Its vast territories are matched by equally vast underground stocks that contain practically the whole Mendeleyev’s table. We have no reasons to envy resources-rich countries, Russia fully supplies itself with its own resources and exports it to other countries. However, the world is changing fast. Sooner or later we would run out of fossil fuels. More important, globalizing economy and changing paradigms of social and technological development set new challenges for countries wishing to secure their competitive edge in terms of economics and geopolitics. In addition to finding ways to use “old” resources more intensively these countries have to switch their attention to earlier ignored opportunities.

Global war for old and new resources is just beginning. Russia aspires to win the war and considers new technology projects. All this is extremely important. The only way for our country to secure the necessary new resources is to play a leading role in the battle for human capital and to combine technology with human resources.  

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Table of contents:

Editorial

• New resources of Russia

Direct Speech

• Sergey Sibiryakov, Ivan Sidelnikov XXI century is epoch of Russia (Russian only)

Expert Assessment

Deserted Russia?

• Natalia Zubarevich Who is winning the competition for human resources? (Russian only)
• Nikita Mkrtchyan Who shall settle down Russia in the period of long-term depopulation? (Russian only)

Cadres are all-important?

• Vyacheslav Glazychev Speciality or competency? (Russian only)
• Vladimir Nechaev New cadres for new Russia (Russian only)

Dip into the future

• Sergey Pereslegin Resources of the future: "There Won't Be a War, but There Will Be Such a Battle for Peace..." 
•  Vladimir Fisenko Energy structure development in Russia (Russian only)
• Ivan Frolov Polar prospects
• Sergey Kostyushev Realising the potential of Russia’s water resources
• Irina Smirnova  Tourism as a Resource
• Innovation on the side (article based on the contents of research prepared by the CSR "North-West") 

Post Scriptum

• Sergey Chernychev Property: capitalization as socialization (Russian only)

The Russian Expert Review was founded by the Center for Strategic Research “North-West”. The periodical is published in print as well as online since 2003. The title of the previous issue is Peculiarities of the National Cultural Policy.

Russian Expert Review (RER) is an online periodical focusing on Russian strategy in the areas of foreign policy and economics. RER brings high-quality, objective, up-to-date information and analysis from Russian think tanks, research institutions and independent analysts’ groups to the Western expert community. The RER website - www.rusrev.org - contains regularly updated information, as well as a database of Russian and foreign research institutions conducting research on Russia. RER is issued in English and Russian.

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Editor-in-chief: Victor Heyfets rusrev@csr-nw.ru