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Provides the speeches of Valery Salygin of MGIMO University and of many other energy officials, discussing the need for sustainable energy policy among the CIS Member States in the backdrop of the world financial crisis and a great many other issues. To these ends, cooperation and long-term planning are paramount. Covers a brief history of the CIS Electric Energy Council and its accomplishments, such as a number of agreements, as that signed by Tajikistan and Russia in 2004 concerning the building of the Sangtuda-1 hydropower plant. Such joint investment projects will prove beneficial to bilateral communication as well as improvement of energy infrastructure. Other considerations include protection of the environment, the creation of profit in energy sales, further investment in capital structures, decommissioning of old and unreliable equipment and plants, and the increase of energy, amongst others. Adapted from the source document.

People living or working in the Arctic are faced with uncertainty regarding future social, political, economic, and environmental change. This uncertainty is due not least to the on-going transformations caused by climate change. This paper presents resultsfrom a project entitled "Yamal 2040: Scenarios for the Russian Arctic", which employed 'Strategic Fore-sight', a specific co-design and engagement methodology, to support stakeholders of one particular region in the Arctic, the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamal region) in Western Siberia, Russia. It was the project's objective to respond to this situation of general uncertainty, to develop forward-looking scenarios to better understand the risks and oppor-tunities associated with future transformations inthe Arctic. The findings presented here may be of interest for stakeholders in other parts of the Arctic and Russia that depend on the exploitation of fossil fuels and/or are facing complex and uncertain situations.Three future scenarios were developed together with stakeholders at a series of workshops. The scenarios take into account climate projections as well as possible environmental, so-cial and cultural concerns, economic opportunities, and political and legal developments. Representatives of different stakeholder groups (Indigenous Peoples Organizations, and en-vironmental NGOs, local communities, Yamal industry, the media etc.) were involved from the beginning of the project and acted as co-authors of the elaborate scenarios.The scenarios envisiondifferent futures for the region. In one of them, Yamal's petroleum business is shrinking as a result of theglobal energy transition. In another scenario, Yamal's gas industry is booming because gas is viewed worldwide as a "transition fuel". In two scenarios, Yamal experiences severe consequences of climate change, such as rain-on-snow events, or anthrax outbreaks and mercury releases out of thawing permafrost, which create life-threatening challenges for Indigenous communities. In contrast, the third ...

People living or working in the Arctic are faced with uncertainty regarding future social, political, economic, and environmental change. This uncertainty is due not least to the ongoing transformations caused by climate change. This paper presents results from a project entitled "Yamal 2040: Scenarios for the Russian Arctic", which employed 'Strategic Foresight', a specific co-design and engagement methodology, to support stakeholders of one particular region in the Arctic, the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamal region) in Western Siberia, Russia. It was the project's objective to respond to this situation of general uncertainty, to develop forward-looking scenarios to better understand the risks and opportunities associated with future transformations in the Arctic. The findings presented here may be of interest for stakeholders in other parts of the Arctic and Russia that depend on the exploitation of fossil fuels and/or are facing complex and uncertain situations.

Female white rats were exposed during up to 6 months 5 times a week, 4 hr per day in a "nose only" inhalation device to an aerosol containing predominantly submicron (nanoscale included) particles of amorphous silica in the concentration 2.6±0.6 or 10.6±2.1 mg/m3. In an auxiliary experiment with a single-shot intratracheal instillation of these particles, it was shown that they induced a pulmonary cell response comparable with that to highly cytotoxic and fibrogenic standard quartz powder DQ12. However, in the long-term inhalation test, the studied aerosol proved to be of very low systemic toxicity and fibrogenicity. This paradox may be explained by low SiO2 retention in lungs and other organs due to a relatively high in vivo solubility of these nanoparticles. Nevertheless, their genotoxic action and transnasal penetration into the brain should make one give a cautious overall assessment of this aerosol as an occupational or environmental hazard. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. ; Government Council on Grants, Russian Federation ; Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation: 3.9534.2017/8.9 ; The research was partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (project 3.9534.2017/8.9) and by Government of the Russian Federation (Act 211, Agreement 02.A03.21.0006). The equipment of the Ural Centre for Shared Use "Modern Nanotechnology" UrFU was used.

The correlations between the qualitative characteristics of school education and the human development index and its components, according to UN data, are examined using sets of countries. They take into account educational characteristics, indicators of schoolchildren's performance, identified in various countries by the international programs TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS and the number of gold medals at international olympiads in various academic disciplines. Components of human development – life expectancy, gross national income, average and expected years of schooling. Positive correlations, in most cases significant, between the phenomena under consideration have been established. The distribution of educational indicators taken into account by region of the world is considered. Using the world-system analysis, it was found that there is no complete correlation between the country's place in the international system and the level of schoolchildren's academic performance and medalists in school discipline Olympiads. It is noted that the Russian Federation and many countries geographically close to it are characterized by a gap between the quality indicators of school education and the level of development. It is suggested that the quality of school education is a strong and insufficiently implemented prerequisite for the development of the Russian Federation.

In accordance with the national policy of the Russian Federation in the field of education, the state is making efforts to attract foreign students to the country's universities. The Southeast Asia, with its significant demographic potential and prospects for economic growth is one of the promising areas for expanding the export of the Russian education. This article analyzes the demographic indicators of the region, identifies the trends in the predominance of the young population, and makes the forecast of changes in several demographic indicators in the medium and long term. The possibilities of the national education systems of the region in the context of the socio-economic development of the Southeast Asian countries are also considered. Conclusions are drawn about the insufficient level of dissemination of higher education, especially in the poorest states of the region. The considerations concerning the national educational policy of Russia based on the system of granting quotas to young people from different countries of the world are given. The obtained results showed the need of young people from Southeast Asian countries for high-quality and affordable higher education abroad, as well. The conclusions are drawn on the prospects of educational migration to Russia from the region under consideration and brief recommendations on improving the policy of promoting Russian education in countries with rich demographic potential are given.

Based on the analysis of development of photonuclear reaction studding at 𝐸𝛾 ≲ 40 MeV and the unique parameters of the Compton source of 𝛾–quanta under projecting, a program of priority photonuclear research using this source is proposed. The program includes research on: structures of giant E1 resonances and pygmy resonances; cross sections for partial photonucleon reactions; nuclear resonant fluorescence; photofission; problems of astrophysics and nucleosynthesis.

Based on a comparison of the parameters of the projected 𝛾–source from backward Compton scattering and the known ways of monitoring the beams of 𝛾–quanta themselves to monitor the intensity and energy spectrum of 𝛾–quanta in their beams at this 𝛾–source in photonuclear studies in the region from several MeV to ∼40 MeV, a system of scintillation plastic and inorganic detectors, as well as a pair magnetic spectrometer, was proposed.

Solid-phase synthesis of cerium-containing solid solutions based on ZrSiO4 was described. The synthesis was carried out using mechanical activation of a mixture consisting of zirconium oxide and hydrated amorphous silica with the addition of cerium oxide at a molar ratio of ZrО2:SiО2:CeО2 equal to 0.95:1.00:0.05. The mechanically activated in a centrifugal planetary mill mixture of reagents was calcined in the temperature range of 1200–1600 °C for 3 hours, which was accompanied by the essentially complete synthesis of zircon. The cerium content in the zircon structure was calculated from X-ray powder diffraction data.