The employment issues existing in contemporary Russia including its socio-demographic, economic and regional dimensions are considered. It is argued and substantiated that priority strategies to cope with these issues include: reduction of unemployment and handling of the unemployment benefits’ payments; prevention of the labor force decreasing; including informal (unreported) employment into the public statistical accounting; providing for the people inflow to and increasing employment of those living in Siberia and the Far East of Russia; organization of 25 million high-productive jobs in the national economy.

The creation of integration associations requires the public administration mechanism reforms. The study identifies methods for performance evaluation of regional governments in the Union State. The methods and ways of optimizing the activity of regional authorities in integration associations are proposed.

The article considers the problems of financial recovery as a bankruptcy procedure, presents an analysis of the results of its implementation in Russia for 2014-2016. The factors that determine the feasibility of introducing are considered, a recommendations aimed at improving its effectiveness are proposed.

The institute of responsibility of the trustee in bankruptcy from the instrument of impact on activity of trustee in bankruptcy during the bankruptcy proceedings is even more often used as lever of influence for upholding the interests of individuals. The article considers the current level of legal regulation of responsibility of the trustee in bankruptcy and prospects for limiting the responsibility of the trustee in bankruptcy for strengthening of his independence.

Analysis of ensuring Russia's food security has shown the need to develop indicators that show the level of self-sufficiency of regions with basic food products. The study uses statistical materials of the results of the work of the agro-industrial complex of the region for 2016. As a result of the generalization of existing approaches, the author's methodology was suggested, how to make a rating assessment of the level of food self-sufficiency in the regions of the Leningrad Region for basic types of food. The basis of the approach was analytical methods of mathematical and comparative analysis, it is planned to form the final rating. The proposed methodology can be used in the system of regional management of the agro-industrial complex at the federal and local levels.

Significant institutional weaknesses of the formation of the management structure of an industry cluster are revealed, the possibility of engineering new structures of governance based on the principles of innovative management is identified. Feature of industrial clusters is the need and necessity of innovation that permeates all structures of the cluster management and all the processes of cluster management and, in turn, creates the preconditions for the formation of business entities the ability to successfully overcome a crisis situation. The purpose of the work is to develop the improved construction of innovational sectorial clustering with the use of effective centralized system of management of cluster business processes, based on diffusion of innovational technologies and their production embodiment. A typical structure of sectorial cluster management does not allow determining goals, tasks, tools, and mechanisms of innovational development of sectorial cluster’s enterprises. Drawbacks of the typical structure of sectorial cluster management are as follows: lack of representation of the scheme of cooperation between cluster members and external environment, format of development of interrelations between cluster’s elements in the sphere of information exchange, movement of material flows and financial resources, lack of formed areas of responsibility and matrices of competences of cluster members in various scenarios of development of external environment. The “structural imbalance” in the system of management of sectorial cluster is determined, which consists in elaboration of production and functional structure and “fuzziness” of responsibility for cluster activities efficiency. The use of the improved innovational construction of sectorial cluster management will eliminate structural imbalance in the process of management of sectorial clusters and increase effectiveness of their activities under the conditions of turbulent development of external environment.

Setting up an institutional body will allow to balance interests between interested participants in the company (first of all between management and shareholders). Introduction of an institutional order is reached by means of an establishment of the accurate game rules fixed in internal documents (the charter, corporate positions). The author tries to design institutional model of behavior of participants with their accurate description competencies and responsibility which will allow to protect from destruction of «shareholder value».

The study goal is to develop methodological foundations for the formation of governance mechanism of the development of city-forming organizations, which should contribute to their sustainable functioning, as well as the social and economic development of dominated by a single employer or industry municipal entities.
The article explores the main approaches to the definition of the mechanism for managing the development of an economic entity. It concluded that there is no formalized mechanism for managing the development of city-forming organizations. The definition of the phenomenon under study is done. It identifies complementary properties that the mechanism for managing the development of city-forming organizations should possess. The principles of its functioning are expanded.
The stages of governance mechanism for managing were proposed. The main procedures that require periodic execution are identified. An approach to systematize development strategies is based on the author's original classification of city-forming organizations. The developed algorithm for the formation of a mechanism for managing the development of city-forming organizations is aimed at extending the practical possibilities of using management tools for improving the efficiency of specific economic entities and the municipal economy as a whole.

The analysis of the state of the emerging microfinance sector environment has been carried out, and the peculiarities of its regulation have been revealed. The issues of interaction between banks and microfinance organizations at the credit market are also addressed.

It is necessary to understand what cross-subsidization is - good or bad, evil or good, a problem that needs to be solved, or a necessity that should exist now. In my report, I will talk about the essence and history of the emergence of the phenomenon of cross-subsidization, I will describe the current state in order to understand where we are now, and the promising trends of this phenomenon that exist in public space, legislation, the heads and minds of science and government. I will also present a model for assessing the functioning of a consumer under conditions of work in the power system and in the case of his transition to its own generation with different amounts of cross-subsidization, I will dwell on the results of the simulation. The generated model is a toolkit for market participants that will help them choose the most profitable and efficient way of supplying energy.

Electricity and heat are a commodity, the parameters of which are initially determined, therefore, it can be assumed that consumer behavior in the context of choosing a source of energy supply will be largely determined by the price of energy resources. However, when analyzing consumer behavior when making operational and investment decisions, it should be borne in mind that the current tariffs are distorted by the presence of cross-subsidization.