Report presented in July 2002 Planning Committee Meeting

Report presented by the node chair, Nadezhda Gaponenko, from the Russian Institute of Economics, Policy and Law, (RIEPL), Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology. Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Central Institution of the Node: The Russian Institute of Economics, Policy and Law, Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia - interdisciplinary team of scholars, provided the R&D in the fields S&T and innovation policy, National Innovation system, economic, technological, environmental and water security, future studies and globalization. The Node cooperates with the network of research institutes, Universities, NGOs and individuals in the Russian Federation, Europe, Japan, USA, China, and other countries.

MAIN ACTIVITIES IN 2001:

1. Contribution to the Millennium Project activity;

2. Advancing State of the Future 2001 to decisionmakers and educational system

State of the Future 2001 was advanced to the decisionmakers of the Russian Federal authority bodies and to educational organizations - the Russian Academy of Management and University of Economics and Law for educational purposes.

3. Conferences, Seminars, Workshops:

State of the Future 2001 was used for the preparing papers for the conference "The History of Interaction of the Nature and Society", prepared by RIEPL in collaboration with Moscow Node and the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow University, The Russian Society for Environment Protection, 2001;

State of the Future 2001 was discussed at the interdisciplinary workshop at the RIEPL;

4. Publications:
Dr. Gaponenko, Nadezhda (RIEPL), Technology of XXI Century: New Opportunities and New Uncertainties; IKF Press, 2001.

Dr. Gaponenko, Nadezhda (RIEPL), Water: A Critical Resource of New Century. Conflicts or Cooperation?, Russian Academy of Sciences Press, 2001.

Dr. Gaponenko, Nadezhda (RIEPL), Water in Russia: The Problems of Last Century and The Strategy for the Future, in "Intercoupling of Times", SF COCS Press, 2002, pp. 151-164/

Prof. Kara- Murza, Sergey (RIEPL), Russia in Global World, Philosophy N1, 2001, pp. 148- 157.

Prof. Kara- Murza, Sergey (RIEPL), Science and Security of Large Complex Technical Systems, in "The Problems of Management of Large Complex Systems", Moscow University Press, 2001.

Prof. Kara- Murza, Sergey (RIEPL), Globalization, Ghetto and Criminality , Kaluga, GUP Press, 2001.

Dr. Andreev, Jury (RIEPL), The Russian Arctic, Moscow, Drofa Press, 2001 (as co- author).

Dr. Arhipova, Marija (RIEPL), The Implementation of Models in Future Studies, Moscow, MESI Press, 2001.

 Nadezhda Gaponenko, from the Russian Institute of Economics, Policy and Law, (RIEPL), Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology. Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences,  node chair of the Russian Node, presented the report.

The Russian Node translated most of the last year's lookout questionnaires in Russian and distributed them to possible participants from the academia, NGOs, science, and relevant government organizations. This increased a lot the participation.

The short version of the 15 Global Challenges was also translated into Russian and comments/updates/answers were received from several participants working in the respective fields. The answers were distilled and then translated into English and incorporated in the updated version of the State of the Future.

One interview was conducted for the S&T management implications.

The S&T lookout study incited most of the interest; there were 10 answers received from Russia to round 1, and 21 to the second round questionnaire.

The Millennium Project is more and more known in Russia, mostly in the univeristy environment. Parts of the State of the Future reports are translated into Russia function of their different use.

Nadezhda Gaponenko spoke about the Millennium Project and its findings with various occasions at the many conferences and meetings she participated.