Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The article is an author's view on the problem of innovation and innovation environment applied to the oil industry of the country and its regions. The main task set by the authors during the study is the development of theoretical provisions for determining the priorities for the formation of an innovation environment in the Russian oil and gas sector and the development of methodological recommendations for the improvement of the innovation environment. For this purpose, the following tasks were accomplished: the essence of the innovation environment of the oil industry as an economic category was revealed and the priorities of its formation in the oil and gas complex of the region were justified; the methodological bases of the innovation environment analysis are substantiated and the priorities of its formation in the economy (structure, functions, indicators) are revealed; proposals to improve the innovation environment in the oil-producing region have been developed; methodical recommendations on the development of innovative processes in the industry have been formed. Concerns about fuel safety, environmental problems are growing in the society. Therefore, in this article, the authors propose their own approaches to the organization of interaction between the subjects of regional oil and gas markets, the external environment and municipal and state authorities on a science-based basis. The purpose of this concept is to create a local oil territorial production complex that will be dynamic, flexible, capable of rapid adaptation in changing conditions

The article represents an author's look how character and sources of threats to national interests of Russia from the world financial market have changed in new geoeconomical and geopolitical conditions. The main objective of research is, on the one hand, justification of methodological approach to studying of influence of the world financial market on finance and economic system of the state. The second subtask is studying the new threats to national economy caused by the external economic and foreign policy instability. For achievement of the specified tasks authors investigated the scientific approaches to definition of "economic security" presented in works of the Russian and foreign scientists. It allowed to prove their own interpretation of this category, and to formulate why there are different approaches to definition of "economic security". The authors offer the system called "economic security – the financial market". It is presented in the form of the flowchart opening elements of this system. On a plan of authors, it has to serve as methodological basis when the analysis of character, the directions and extents of influence of changes of the world financial market on economic security of the state is carried out. As an illustration of this theoretical position, there is an assessment of external threats to Russia's national interests related to political events and economic transformation in 2014-2015