Никитина Л. М.

The relevance of the topic. Approaches to assessing the performance of the Board of directors require modernization, taking into account the specifics of the organizational and legal provisions of public joint stock companies, as well as changes in institutional and socio-economic conditions in Russia. The need to expand the range of methods and tools for evaluating the performance of the Board of directors is due to the growing demands of stakeholders for the quality of its work and the sustainable growth of companies as a whole. Goal. Development and approbation of a methodology for evaluating the performance of the Board of directors of Russian companies based on public information. Methodology. The research uses general scientific methods and techniques: analysis, synthesis, analogy, generalization, comparison, abstraction, as well as statistical methods and methods of economic analysis. The methodological framework is based on modern versions of methodological recommendations on the evaluation of the Board of directors, as well as methodologies for assigning corporate governance ratings. The information base of the empirical part of the study contains the reports of Russian public joint stock companies included in the National Corporate Governance Rating. Results and conclusions. The research identified trends in the formation and functioning of the Board of directors caused by changes in regulatory and advisory documents regulating the corporate governance process, as well as by requirements of stakeholders, in particular, the transition to a balanced board of directors and the expansion of functions in the field of ESG activity control. The study also developed a methodology for evaluating the performance of the Board of directors of Russian public companies, which differs in evaluation criteria, the composition of relevant indicators, the scoring system, the scale of interpretation of the results obtained and meets the requirements of modern theory and practice of corporate governance. Based on the results of the evaluation of the performance of the Board of directors of Russian public companies included in the National Corporate Governance Rating, the study formulated recommendations for their improvement using the proposed methodology. Scope of application. Improving the composition, structure, and performance of the boards of directors of Russian public companies in order to improve the quality of corporate governance.

Subject . Regional features of digital economy development in the Russian Federation regions. Methodological problems of evaluating the digital economy and applied research of its development in different regions. Differentiation of regional digital economies and development of promising directions for the development of the digital economy of individual regions. Topic . Formation of relevant approaches to assessing the development of the regional digital economy and solving problems of digital inequality among Russian regions. Purpose. Assessment of the development of the digital economy in Russian regions (their homogeneous groups) and justification of a differentiated approach to the selection of appropriate measures and tools for managing development processes. Methodology. The assessment of the development of the digital economy of Russian regions was made using cluster analysis, which allowed dividing 85 regions of Russia into virtual clusters by 14 indicators. The study uses data from official statistics «Monitoring the development of the information society in the Russian Federation». Normalization of indicators was carried out using the MS Excel program; the division of regions into clusters was made using the Statistica 10 program using the K average method for normalized values of indicators.Results . As a result of virtual clustering, five similar groups of Russian regions were analyzed. Leaders and outsiders are identified among them, and their weaknesses and strengths are identified, including in the context of public subsystems (households, the public sector, and business structures). The necessity of a differentiated approach to the choice of measures and tools for managing the development of digitalization for a specific subject of the Russian Federation is shown. Applicationarea . The results of the research can be used in the development and updating of national and regional documents on the development of the digital economy. Conclusions . Methods for assessing the development of the digital economy, as well as the composition of the indicators used in them, remain variable. The currently dominant ratings for the development of the digital economy set priorities, but they cannot form homogeneous groups of countries or regions for certain components of the development of the digital economy. The use of cluster analysis allowed us to identify three leading groups of Russian regions, characterized as territories of active users of information and communication technologies in the corresponding social subsystemthe driver of the digital economy development. The remaining two clusters, which unite half of the Russian regions, are outsiders in an unbalanced state. When determining the future directions of development of the digital economy of individual regions (their groups) and selecting management tools, it is advisable to take into account the existing differentiation and focus on the corresponding subsystem drivers.

Purpose. Analysis of comprehensive measures to raise awareness and motivate the population of municipalities in the Voronezh region with a high level of HIV infection to pass HIV testing in 2017-2018 to increase their effectiveness.Discussion. A retrospective epidemiological analysis of the registers of the first detected cases of HIV infection among the residents of the Voronezh region in 2015-2018 (n = 2606) and the data of the epidemiological investigation maps was carried out. The territories at risk of HIV infection and key for each territory of the population group were identified, based on the age and sex structure and the predominant ways of HIV infection. The data of the reports of the service providers of activities aimed at HIV prevention in the key population groups of the Voronezh region were used. The events were held with the participation of socially oriented non-profit organizations (NGOS). Excel tables (incidence, specific weight, growth) were used to calculate statistical indicators.Summary. The analysis showed that the change in the structure of preventive work, the direction of targeted funding to the most vulnerable groups of the population will increase the effectiveness of identifying sources of infection. This approach to the implementation of the planned measures will stabilize and reduce the disease in the region and fulfill the indicators of the State strategy of HIV infection in the Russian Federation for the period up to 2020 and beyond.

In article integration problems institutionally diverse structures in regions are considered. On the basis of the system and institutional analysis it is shown that at regional level higher educational institutions can carry out an integrator role rather successfully. Higher education institution mission as integrator of regional level consists first of all in formation of new communications of regions and their subsystems with world community.

The process of refusal of the state control over the social sphere and the increasing role of socially responsible companies can be represented in the form of historical stages. The development of corporate social responsibility in Russia has become the basis for the revision of traditional views on social policy toward the expansion of range of its subjects and reducing the state’s role in solution of socio-economic problems.

In article the problem of responsibility of business in the conditions of fast development of the technical and technological sphere of society is considered. The conclusion is drawn on compatibility of innovative development with socially responsible behavior of business.