Vol. 88, No. 1, 2018

Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences

A simultaneous English language translation of this journal is available from Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences ISSN 1019-3316.

Science and Society

Challenges and Opportunities in Forming a Digital Economy in Russia

V. B. Betelin p. 1 abstract

Interaction between Man and the Natural Environment: A Major Factor of the Existence of Civilization On the Results of the Year of Ecology in Russia

V. I. Osipov, O. E. Aksyutin, A. G. Ishkov and V. A. Grachev p. 7 abstract

On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium

Urgent Problems of Valuation of Recoverable Oil and Gas Reserves

S. A. Smolyak, S. N. Zakirov, I. M. Indrupskiy, M. S. Rozman, E. S. Zakirov and D. P. Anikeev p. 15 abstract

Prospects for the Intellectualization of State-of-the-Art Aviation Systems

S. Yu. Zheltov and V. V. Kos’yanchuk p. 28 abstract

From the Researcher’s Notebook

Comparison of Tectonic Phases and Geomagnetic Reversals in the Late Mesozoic and in the Cenozoic

V. G. Trifonov and S. Yu. Sokolov p. 37 abstract

The Global Competitiveness Index As an Indicator of Sustainable Development

S. Bucher p. 44 abstract

Review

Constitutional Modernization in the CIS Countries: New Trends

T. Ya. Khabrieva p. 58 abstract

Multimodal Interfaces of Human–Computer Interaction

A. A. Karpov and R. M. Yusupov p. 67 abstract

Attitudes to Death As a Scientific Problem

A. V. Yurevich p. 75 abstract

Point of View

Mathematical Modeling and the Philosophy of Science

V. P. Il’in p. 81 abstract

The Uniform Electronic Knowledge Space Revisited

A. B. Antopol’skii and D. V. Efremenko p. 89 abstract

Abroad

The Logic of Directed Development in Postcolonial India

A. G. Volodin p. 96 abstract

The Outward Expansion of China As a Result of Its Victorious Modernization

A. I. Salitskii p. 104 abstract