The article analyzes in many ways still debatable issues of arranging Greater Eurasia as a poly-civilization space covering the North Atlantic, Eurasian and Asian-Pacific regions. Attention is drawn to the ambiguity of the interpretation of the Eurasian idea as applied to forecast estimates of the geopolitical status of modern Russia. The need for a geopolitical and geoeconomic examination of the projects under development of the Greater Eurasian Partnership from Lisbon to Vladivostok and the recognition of the status of state ideology as an indispensable link of constitutional law is pointed out.

In the past and current years, the EAEU countries, the Eurasian Economic Commission and the Government of the People’s Republic of China signed documents important in the context of modern development of cooperation — the Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Agreement on the Exchange of Information on Goods and International Transport Vehicles Moving Through the EAEU Customs Borders and the People’s Republic of China. What is the reason for reaching these agreements and what is their content? How will they work? What are the problems in the development of trade and economic cooperation between the EAEU countries and the PRC today? What are the prospects? What tasks and how will we deal with our Chinese partners tomorrow? This article is dedicated to finding answers to these and other questions.

The paper discusses the interaction of Eurasian Economic Union and the Silk Road Economic Belt within the framework of transport routes and international transport corridors development. Today’s Eurasian international transport corridors are reviewed together with the discussion of rebuild and renovated transport infrastructure, considering corresponding realization issues. The paper gives the perspective of collaboration in the transport section of planned Big Eurasian Partnership, which is virtually realized within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

The research paper examines some aspects of trade and economic cooperation in the Eurasian Union in services and trade policy. The authors consider key challenges and difficulties affecting prospects of sustainable Eurasian integration. The article stresses the need to harmonize and unite efforts of the Eurasian state bodies and businesses in order to increase the integration policies efficiency in a new environment based on reasonable application of national experience and expertise.

The relevance of studying the economic cooperation issues between Russia and Azerbaijan is due to the fact that at present the economy is a locomotive for the development of bilateral relations. The key area of Russian-Azerbaijan economic cooperation is energy; therefore, the priorities of strategic relations have a pronounced ”energy“ character. The objective reality for building mutually beneficial economic relations between countries is the digital space. This circumstance served as the basis for the hypothesis about the need for the active use of digital technologies in the activities of enterprises in the oil and gas sector of Azerbaijan, which is 43% of GDP. The article assesses the degree of international integration, examines the state of foreign economic relations between Russia and Azerbaijan, identifies promising areas of Russian-Azerbaijan economic cooperation. In conclusion, the proposals on the use of Russian experience in the field of digitalization and the oil and gas industry for the conditions of Azerbaijan are substantiated.

The study of cooperation between Central Asian countries in foreign trade is topical due to the role of foreign trade as an important factor in the economic growth of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. Foreign trade is an important tool of the Central Asian countries’ integration into the world economy and is of key importance for the future development of the national economies of all countries. The article analyzes the volume of Central Asian countries’ foreign trade for the period 2000–2016, the economic impact of foreign trade on their development. Despite the entry into force of the EAEU customs code, one of the objectives of which was to strengthen the foundations of the common commodity market, the share of EAEU foreign trade currently significantly exceeds the share of domestic trade, which is a weak point in the process of domestic economic integration. The challenge is still to reduce the region's dependence on the international market.

The present article analyzes the development of the inland water transport of the Eurasian region in the context of the adopted programs for the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the integration of the EAEU and the Chinese project ”Silk Road Economic Belt“. The subject of research consists of political decisions and legal documents on the development of inland water transport of the Eurasian region. The article discusses the guidelines for the development of the Caspian transport system, including the development of ports on the Caspian Sea. The harmonization of the activity of the CIS inland water transport was analyzed using the study of the Model Code of Inland Water Transport for the CIS member states.

Features of the international e-commerce regulation in the EAEU customs legislation are regarded in the article. The EAEU members customs authorities have a deal with the necessity of accelerated registration of the goods flow in international mail, lack of legal mechanisms to collect customs revenues and crime prevention in this area. The course on developing of the EAEU E-commerce Tax Policy Concept was proposed by Eurasian Economic Commission in 2017. The EAEU Customs Code, taking into account new trends in the world trade, entered into force in 2018. However, this is clearly not enough. The issue needs to be further analyzed both at the interstate and scientific levels.

International Mobile Satellite Organization INMARSAT, established in 1976, has proven its viability and effectiveness by ensuring continuous interaction of states and national organizations in achieving common objectives of the creation and operation of its space segment for the purpose of providing commercial radio communication services for mobile sea, ground and air units, as well as non-commercial radio communication services, including services within the Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS). In this connection, it is of both academic and practical interest to study the details of INMARSAT’s international law nature. This international organisation is unique because, while having international legal personality, it is directly engaged in providing its space segment. This has affected the structure and content of INMARSAT’ foundation documents (Convention and Operational Agreement), the nature of its membership and content of its bodies’ functions, the rights and obligations of a member state and the national communications organisation nominated by it as the INMARSAT participant. An analysis of INMARSAT’s international law nature will allow to assess the extent to which its organizational and legal structure meets the requirements.

 In contemporary international relations, the mutual relations between Serbia and China are conditioned by numerous factors of political, economic, social and cultural nature. While these factors realistically indicate the disparity between the two countries in many respects, this should not be a serious obstacle for them to develop good and friendly relations in many fields. The primary reason is that, in the historical and international legal context, the relations between the two countries are characterized by a certain continuity, which is manifested in the gradual development of diplomatic relations established in 1955, between the former Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia and the People’s Republic of China. As one of the successor states to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbia continues to treat China as one of its most important partners in international relations. Serbia demonstrates such a foreign policy approach through the course, according to which China is one of the main “pillars” of its foreign policy with the European Union, Russia and the United States. By mentioning its main “pillars”, in its foreign policy orientation, Serbia actually wants to emphasize that China represents for it a key player in world politics and a great power with which it builds relations of “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership” (CSP). The deepening of Serbian-Chinese relations at the bilateral and multilateral levels (especially in the UN, regional international organizations and political fora, such as the “17 + 1” cooperation mechanism between China and Central, Eastern and Southeast European countries), hence, it is in some way a consequence of accelerated global economic developments, largely conditioned by “China’s New Silk Road” strategy and tactics framed through the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative (OBOR), which realistically represent a new paradigm of international relations based on the idea on peaceful and harmonious world development.

The objective of this work is to study ways to analyze public governance digitalization in Russian regions in terms of political opportunities structure. In order to achieve the objective, the following methods were used: political indices analysis (EGDI, EPI, DESI, CPI, NRI, DAI, ‘Digital Russia’ index, digital literacy index), analysis of political power institutional designs in Russian regions, analysis of research works done by leading foreign and Russian sociologists and political scientists and devoted to public governance digitalization and allied subjects, analysis of core papers of such authors as C. Tilly, S. Tarrow and etc. Learning indices is conditioned by the need to define as large as possible number of public governance digitalization parameters, its inter relations and relevance to Russian political system. Appealing to investigations of digitalization researchers and works of C. Tilly, S. Tarrow constitutes a key part of this article, andthe authors’ concepts provide the or etical foundation of the research. Results of this research are expressed in a set of recommendations on including additional indicators for analysis of digital public governance political opportunities structure. These indicators represent whole plurality of political resources essential for gradual realization of public governance digitalization concept on regional level allowing for particular risks caused by public policy in a sub-federal entity. Summary of the study includes author’s notion about probable challenging or modernization of suggested variants of additional indicators in terms of other theoretical concepts and empirical data not included in this paper.

This article is devoted to the problems and prospects of economic activity of the BRICS member countries. Analyzing the national programs of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa in the field of international economic activity on the basis of a comparative method, the article provides practical measures to resolve conflicts of interests of the BRICS countries and the development of mutual understanding. The article concludes with a tendency towards the formation of a multipolar system of international relations and the growing interdependence of the BRICS countries, emphasizes the importance of economic integration and financial cooperation between these countries to protect against an unstable external environment and preserve national socio-economic development.

The article is devoted to the analysis of Arctic strategies of the countries of Asia and the Russian Federation. The author considers national programs for the development of the Arctic region provided by the Asian countries and the principles on which these programs are built. Much attention is paid to the common features and differences of the strategies under consideration. Arctic strategies are the most important declarations of intentions and opportunities of the countries interested in the region’s development. By exploring and comparing strategies it is possible to predict opportunities for Asian countries — Russian Federation cooperation in the Arctic region. For the research, methods of abstraction, classification, comparative analysis and modeling were used.