The article investigates principles of effective implementation of marketing activities of companies in the post-industrial economy. These principles should provide objective conditions for the sustainable growth of loyalty of the target segments of the consumer market and at the same time minimize the feasibility of using the tools of ethically incorrect marketing manipulation of consumer choice processes. The tendencies and problems of the implementation of the consumer choice of individuals in the conditions of a modern, post-industrial economy are also studied. At the same time, conclusions are drawn that it is advisable to use, in interconnection and complementarity, individual tools and methods related to the ordinal direction of the neoclassical paradigm, neo-institutional and post-neoclassical schools of the economic theory by substantiating the consumer behavior.

The subject of the study covers peculiarities of the development and implementation of the investment process in the modern economy in the context of the interaction of investment and innovation components of the economic development process, taking into account the peculiarities of the improvement and development of human capital in the Russian economy. The article is devoted to the analysis of parameters and conditions affecting the improvement of the investment process in the national economy. Based on the methods of systematic analysis and synthesis of the key features of the development of the Russian economy, which underlie the innovation and investment renewal of industries, the possibilities of ensuring the economic development and sustainable economic growth are assessed. Within the framework of the conducted research, it was revealed that management decisions by improving the efficiency of the investment process are formed by the potential opportunities for the development of human capital, the improvement of factors and forms of its implementation. Among the basic parameters of the effectiveness growth of the implementation of the innovative component of the investment process, features of scientific research in the national economy, forms and scales of the innovative activity of business and government, assessment of the quality of existing human capital at the level of an organization and the state are determined. It is the decisive development of human capital within the framework of the innovative economic renewal in the context of increased sanctions pressure and the development of import-substituting industries that is a necessary condition for improving the efficiency of the investment process.

The article is devoted to topical issues of the development of forms of the international industrial cooperation which is presented in the work as a kind of interstate financial and economic communication processes, differentiated by the object composition. At the same time, it is emphasized that the type of the international industrial cooperation is a specific way of organizing and implementing this kind of cooperation, depending on some internal or external factors (temporary, innovative, analytical and methodological ones, etc.).

The article is devoted to topical issues of Russian-Chinese energy cooperation within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which can become an institution that contributes to strengthening the regional economic integration and defending the national interests of the SCO member states. Energy cooperation between Kazakhstan and China is considered as one of the components of the SCO energy market in the current geopolitical conditions.

 The article discusses and substantiates directions for improving the state economic policy, these directions are focused on the progressive development of formal institutional support, which ensures the simultaneous solution of strategic tasks of increasing the intensity, diversification and financial and economic efficiency of the development of the innovation infrastructure of the national economy of the Russian Federation.

The research conducted investigates the impact of international sanctions on the economic security of individuals. It is noted that ensuring the regular working level of all social, economic and political institutions and mechanisms of the country, as well as strengthening their security against the threat of sanctions is the main current task of the entire system of the economic security of the country. Based on the conducted indicative analysis of personal economic security indicators, the consequences (threats, risks) for the general state of the country's economic security have been identified. The system of indicators of threats to the economic security of Russia, methods of their assessment, as well as the main strategic directions of countering threats to the economic security of individuals are presented in this article. In the final part of the article, based on the existing regulatory framework for regulating the economic activity under international sanctions, the directions of countering sanctions restrictions are proposed, primarily aimed at minimizing the damage from the introduction of these measures, as well as at creating mechanisms for circumventing these measures within the framework of the Russian foreign and domestic policy.

The relevance of the research topic is determined by the need to fulfill tasks of the increasing role of creative industries as a resource for sustainable urban development. One of the goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) program is SDG #11 “Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements”. The basis for a city's sustainability is its demographic sustainability. One of the criteria that ensures it is the quality of life of the city’s population. For a long time, it has been customary to assess the standard of living of the population using such indicators as “income per capita”, “level and dynamics of prices for basic consumer goods”, etc. However, they do not fully reveal the quality of life of the population, which depends, among other things, and from the opportunity to spend quality leisure time, and from a comfortable urban environment. Today, ensuring conditions for a high quality of life is impossible without creative industries, which is confirmed by the inclusion of indicators for their assessment in the leading ratings and indices of sustainable development of territories. The research purpose is to study the relationship between sustainable development and the development of creative industries using the example of regional centers of the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation (VFD). The object of the study is the creative industries of the regional centers of the Volga Federal District. The research object includes the relationship between the sustainable development of the city and the number of creative industries organizations, the level of employment in the creative sector and the contribution of creative industries organizations to the GMP. Analysis, synthesis, grouping, comparison, juxtaposition, a tabular method, a rank method are used in this work. Based on the results of the study, a potential relationship was established between the sustainability of the development of regional centers of the Volga Federal District cities with a population of over a million people and the level of development of creative industries in them, primarily in relation to the indicator “the share of organizations in the total number of organizations in the city.”

One of the important tools for determining the effectiveness of health system reforms is the assessment by the population of the work of the primary health care system, since it is a system that largely determines the availability of medical care to the population. The purpose of this article is to study the data of sociological studies on patients' dissatisfaction with the work of polyclinics in Russia as a whole and in the federal districts, to identify significant problems of functioning of this health care unit, as well as to identify federal districts where problems of primary health care are most pronounced. In the course of the study, index and graphical research methods were used. As a result of the study, the most significant problems in the work of polyclinic characteristic of all federal districts of the Russian Federation were identified (dissatisfaction with the work of specialist doctors, lack of necessary equipment and/or medicines, waiting time in the queues), and also identified federal districts where there is an increase in the proportion of residents dissatisfied with medical care according to almost all criteria of dissatisfaction, which were considered in the study. The study has practical significance. Since healthcare is traditionally considered as an industry that strongly influences the growth of social tension, analyzing data on the criteria of dissatisfaction with medical care in federal districts, we can not only assess the effectiveness of healthcare reforms, but also identify areas of possible social tension.

The article investigates current problems of risk management of the Russian network organizations in the provision of services for technological connection to electric networks. This activity has a risky nature, since it is associated with the possibility of violation of antimonopoly legislation and the imposition of significant administrative fines. The research purpose is to develop the concept of antimonopoly compliance as a system for preventing violations of the anti-monopoly legislation in the provision of technological connection services. The research result is the development of methodological approaches in the management of antimonopoly risks that can be applied by grid organizations in order to increase the efficiency of technological connection to electric networks, as well as to reduce costs associated with the imposition of fines.