
The world is trying to understand the impact caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic and uncertainty still remains, in this issue of the annual «Trend Vision 2020. Russia» report experts talk about trends, signals of change and how to analyze them, in order to make the future, in which this world crisis is not the last one, to be not a frightening «black box», but a platform for exciting experiments for successful brands and companies focused on long-term sustainability.

Experts from the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting present the 12th edition of Theses on Economics. The next article examines issues related to inflationary processes after the lifting of restrictions, the state of the Russian budget and the stabilization of industry after a deep recession.

Anton Pronin, Acceleration Director of Skolkovos IT cluster, offers step-by-step instructions to startups for surviving a pandemic. The cluster is a partner of the Roscongress Foundations Innovation Space, and participates in every event hosted by the platform, including the Science Fest Innovation and Science Festival which is to take place online 2426 July 2020.

EY presents another news release, which is devoted to assessing the contribution of business to the development of regions of presence. It describes modern approaches to assessing the socio-economic impact of business, as well as the possibilities of using the results of such an assessment for effective communication with all stakeholders.