The article presents the study and synthesis of international and Russian experience in assessing quality of life of the general population. The issues of studying the quality of life of the population become relevant again in the light of the realization of national goals and strategic development objectives: both in the country and in the regional aspect. In the Soviet times, scholars investigated the way of life of the population and the quality of life of the population including of indicators of labor, working time, environment and several sectoral indicators. In the 1990s, new calculations of indexes and complex indicators for the country and its large regions were developed. The authors summarized new approaches in developing methods for assessing the quality of life in Russia, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages. These are the techniques proposed by such famous scientists as Osipov G. V., Ayvazyan S. A., Rimashevskaya N. M., Bobkov V. N. and others. It is still an open discussion about how to create such a methodology for assessing the quality of life of the general population, which would be able to reflect the territorial, national, cultural and socio-economic diversity and the individualities of the Russian regions. Many Russian researchers are turning to foreign experience, which is also summarized by authors, noting the advantages and disadvantages of each method. Methods such as the HDI (Human Development Index), PQLI and PSLI (Physical Quality of Life Index), Triangular Nation Welfare Index, SNA (System of National Accounts), EIU Quality of Life Index and the Happiness Index NEF are analyzed. The calculated HDI data for 2018 showed that Russia ranked 49th in the world with an index of 0.816. A study of the happiness index, conducted by the New Economic Foundation in 2016, determined that Russia for this indicator ranked 116th in the world with an index of 18.7. The analysis showed that international methods for assessing the quality of life are also imperfect, because they do not fully reflect the diverse aspects of quality of life. Russian and international experiences show that there is currently no universal method for assessing the quality of life of the general population and the current methods need further development.

One of the criteria for the long-term effectiveness of management of such spatial transformations is the sustainable and continuous development of industrial enterprises, providing a system of crisis management, taking into account the use of competitive advantages, strengthening the potential of enterprises, industries, regions, provided by natural, technological, resource fundamental factors of development. The modern development of the Russian Far Eastern region should be provided through a system of crisis management, taking into account existing factors. The pharmaceutical industry is one of the drivers of modern industry development. In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has one of the highest growth rates both in Russia and around the world. Pharmaceutical production is represented in most regions of Russia. The main part of the enterprises is concentrated in the European part of Russia, where several pharmaceutical clusters are formed. Against this background, pharmaceutical production in the Russian Far East is less developed. The paper presents a brief analysis of the pharmaceutical industry in the region, the analysis of the existing pharmaceutical production in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), which is in crisis. Options for the development of the industry in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) through the replacement of assets and the creation of a biopharmaceutical cluster, taking into account the existing crisis factors, are proposed. This solution is designed to strengthen the state of the industry in the region, create new jobs and solve the problem of providing affordable and effective medicines produced with the use of unique local raw materials in the Russian Far East.

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have become the most popular method of preferential law in various types of international economic agreements. Although many questions connected to Free Trade Zones (FTAs) are still concentrated in the economic sphere some partners operating in the framework of FTAs develop new functions in their international laws for the non-economic field. Thus, international laws can work as an important basis in order to stimulate further cooperation between partners. The article is devoted to the analysis of economic cooperation between Korea and the EAEU based on the possibilities of a bilateral free trade agreement. Russia is seeking new economic partners in the Asia-Pacific region within the framework of the New East Asia policy. As a result, the EAEU seeks not only to expand its membership, but also to strengthen economic cooperation with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. Recently, their economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region have steadily developed. Korea faces a number of challenges in increasing economic instability around the world and it needs to diversify its partnerships with the emerging market economy. In 2016, Korea and the EAEU completed a joint study on the possibility of concluding a Free Trade Agreement. The EAEU member countries came to a general consensus on the need to develop industrial cooperation by expanding investment in the EAEU by Korean companies outside the traditional free trade agreements (FTAs).

The author addresses the problem of sociocultural self-identification through the civilizational perspective. The paper is based on a civilizational approach developed by a Polish historian Jan Kieniewicz and employs an axiological focus to study Russian-Asian civilizational borderland. Kieniewicz views the borderlands as imagined spaces that are important for expressing one’s identity, understanding the nature of relationships and inter-civilizational interactions. The falling of the emerging Soviet civilization revealed a lack of civilizational unity and exposed the original local types of civilizations. The Russian society is presently experiencing the changes in ideological self-identification from the “Soviet man” to national self-identifications. The Russian-Asian civilizational borderland seems to be less defined in comparison with the Russian-European one, but more amorphous in terms of the manifestation of civilizational values. At the same time, there is a strengthening of the Asian vector in terms of associations between the states in the inter-civilizational space. The author applies the indigenous methodology and methodology of the cultural turn in interdisciplinary studies of self-identification through artistic mythological and metaphysical images of national dignity in situations of “domination-subordination”, transformation and transition. Doing so, she reveals the contextual intersection and intertwining of the East and the West, Europe and Asia, modernization projects of Russia as Eurasia. The author claims the need for an active sociocultural dialogue about the Images, Senses and Values of the borderlands that form frontier interactions between peoples, cultures and civilizations. She argues that the geopolitical turn of Russia towards Asia and the Asia-Pacific and is not studied from a critical viewpoint on its frontiers, value transformations, principles of interactions and an assessment of possible subordination to Asian civilizations.

In this paper, we will focus on cultural concepts of creative industries. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that in the modern age of globalization the problem of studying cultural and creative industries is the most interesting for the study of cultural fields. Creative industries are a combination of cultural values, economic resources and social policy. The theoretical basis of this article was the work of domestic researchers of this topic E.V. Zelentsova, A.V. Bokova, I.A. Kuptsova, Yu. O. Papushina, and others. In the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), the phenomenon of cultural industries is explored by V.V. Levochkin, as well as individual works were reviewed, which are to some extent related to replicating the experience of creative activity. The works of P. Doktorov, S. V. Nikiforova and G. S. Popova are reviewed. The aim of the article is a sociocultural analysis of the creative industries in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). In this regard, the concept of “creative industry” was defined; a survey was conducted among the population; using the mapping technology, centers of unique local traditions of folk art were discovered, where ethnocultural creative clusters can function, proposals for the development of creative industries are developed. The methodological basis of this work was the general logical methods of scientific research: analysis, mapping and presentation of conclusions on the material obtained. During the study, we came to the conclusion that the development of creative industries in the republic at this time is rather spontaneous than under purposeful and professional management, so first we need to develop mechanisms for managing this process, new for the republic.