The fifth issue of the journal “Information Society” for 2025 has been published. The topic of the issue is Knowledge Economy. The issue discusses, among others, the following topics:

Ethical regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Cultural heritage in the digital space
Neural networks and the media sphere
Risks of cryptocurrency implementation
Predictive analytics for crime prevention
Digital advertising and local identity
Strategic analytics for BRICS cooperation
Information modeling in construction
Swarm Intelligence for modeling social processes
Digital technologies for improving competitiveness

In her address to readers “Everything Moves,” the journal’s editor-in-chief, Tatiana Ershova, wrote:

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Everything flows, everything changes (Ancient Greek: Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει) – this wisdom is familiar to us from childhood. It belongs to Heraclitus of Ephesus, and Plato preserved it for history: “Heraclitus says that everything moves and stands still, and, likening existence to the flow of a river, he adds that it is impossible to step into the same river twice.”

Our journal has been in publication for 36 years, and during this time, many things have changed in its fate. It started as the “Bulletin of the All-Union Society for Informatics and Computer Engineering” and only in 1997 received its current name. Since the first issue in 1999, it has had new publishers: the Institute of the Information Society and the Russian Engineering Academy. As a result, the journal adopted a new design, and articles were divided into thematic sections. The first three sections were: “Information Society Technologies,” “Information Society: Problems and Development Prospects,” and “Life in the Information Society.” The entire content of the initial issues, including advertising, fit into just over 60 pages.

In 2008, the journal changed its design: a specific picture was now created for each issue. The number of thematic sections increased to five. Since 2011, we have maintained the design we use to this day. It is strict and concise, with each year having its own base cover color, and each issue having its own color for the title bar. The number of main thematic sections has grown to ten.

Since 2020, our journal has become an online publication and is published exclusively on the Web. The pandemic has radically changed our lives, and this inevitably impacted the publishing process. Since then, authors have formatted their articles themselves using an established template, and the journal is published under an open Creative Commons license. Authors now bear full responsibility for the quality of their texts, independently providing the necessary editing and proofreading; the editorial staff strictly adheres to the principle of a “peer review sieve,” through which no questionable or scientifically insignificant content can slip. Incidentally, the length of an issue has now doubled, reaching over 150 pages, and this is another very significant change.

Over the past five years, as technological and socioeconomic developments have progressed, the number of substantive sections has also almost doubled. The editorial staff has made no attempt to tie them to any existing classification systems or to create a new, streamlined system. Our sectioning system evolves, so to speak, “as it goes.” It is fairly conservative and doesn’t respond to every fad, but sometimes there are times when a new section is needed.

This is precisely what happened during the preparation of the fifth issue in 2025. A historical article on the genesis of accounting information technologies, proposed at the beginning of the year and included in this issue after all the necessary procedures, inspired us to create a section titled “History of the Information Society Development.” Another article, examining the role of digital technologies in the development of specific professional competencies, prompted us to consider creating a comprehensive section: “Use of the Information Society Technologies.” It’s surprising even to us that it hasn’t existed before. Clearly, our section will evolve as new and interesting articles appear. And we’re very happy about that.

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The full text of the issue can be found on the journal’s website.

The Artificial Intelligence Almanac is a regular collection of analytical materials on the artificial intelligence field in Russia and globally. It is prepared by the NTI Artificial Intelligence Competence Center at MIPT. Each issue provides an overview of the current state of the AI field in Russia and globally, including key technologies and applications, key companies, universities, and individuals. The articles in the Almanac are written by leading experts in their fields.

The 14th issue of the AI Index contains a report summarizing the results of 2024. IIS partnered with the center in preparing the “Science” section (pages 5-10 of the Almanac).

The Almanac is available on the website of the NTI Artificial Intelligence Competence Center (in Russian).

The International Technology Congress is the central event in the Russian Federation for promoting the concept of international cooperation and non-resource exports as a development strategy for Russia. It is a platform for joint development, coordinating long-term goals and projects, strengthening partnerships, and promoting domestic software and electronics, telecommunications, sovereign critical infrastructure, and information systems. The 2025 Congress was held at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center.

Technical Committee 164 has been a partner of the International Technology Congress since 2024. On September 17, 2025, TC 164 / ITC 566 “Artificial Intelligence” organized the section “Artificial Intelligence: A Space of Technological Trust.” The section “Artificial Intelligence: A Space of Technological Trust” generated keen interest among attendees of the International Technology Congress. The speakers’ presentations are available on the TC 164 website (in Russian).

On September 7, 2023, the Institute of the Information Society celebrated its 27th anniversary.

The area of professional activity of IIS is research, analytics and consulting, legislative, publishing and educational activities on a wide range of problems of information society and knowledge economy, as well as R&D and system integration in the field of creating modern information technologies, including design and implementation of different ICT solutions from the infrastructure level to the level of applied expert systems.

The institute’s customers are federal and regional authorities, federal scientific foundations, large commercial companies, state unitary enterprises, state institutions, universities, research institutes (including the RAS systems), non-profit organizations, international organizations.

The IIS achievements list includes a number of major projects: conceptual and methodological documents of national and international significance; projects for the development, implementation and examination of projects related to the electronic development of Russian regions; analytical reports on the readiness of Russia and its regions for the information society, which have been published regularly since 2001.

In total, the Institute has held more than a hundred events at the regional, national and international levels, published over 30 books on a range of problems of the information society.

Since 1999, the Institute, together with the Russian Engineering Academy, has been the publisher of the scientific and analytical journal “Information Society”, the only publication in Russia that comprehensively and systematically covers the problems of the information society development. In 2010, the journal was included in the List of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications, approved by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, and in 2015 it confirmed its status. Also, in 2015, the journal was included in the Russian Science Citation Index on the Web of Science platform.

Leading experts of the institute have participated in the implementation of a number of initiatives promoting the use of ICT for comprehensive development in Russia, in particular: Public Expert Council of the Moscow City Duma in the direction of “Information, Informatization, Communications, Telecommunications and Television” (1998-2001), then transformed into the Public Expert Council of the Moscow City Duma on the Development of the Information Society (2002-2006); Council under the President of Russia for the Development of the Information Society (2009-2012); expert council under the Government of the Russian Federation (2014-2018); Council for Digital Transformation of ANO “Digital Economy”; the working groups of ANO “Digital Economy” on digital governance and artificial intelligence; subcommittee “Data” (PC 02) as part of the Technical Committee for Standardization “Artificial Intelligence” (TC 164) on the basis of RVC, etc.

Institute leaders at the highest expert level participated in international initiatives, including The Global Bangemann Challenge (1998-1999), then converted to the Stockholm Challenge (2000-2010); Global Junior Challenge (1999-2009); The Digital Opportunity Task Force (DOT Force) (2000-2001); UN ICT Task Force (2002-2005); Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID) (2006-2012); WSIS Action Line C7 e-Government of the action plan for the implementation of the decisions of the World Summit on the Information Society (2012-2017); Working Group on the Measurement and Evaluation Tool for E-Participation Readiness (METEP), formed by the Division of Governance and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2013-2015), etc. The Institute today employs people of various specialties, ages and nationalities. They constitute a powerful intellectual and creative union of like-minded people, thanks to which the Institute was able to overcome all difficulties and become a recognized “expert of the first choice”, an independent leader of Russia in the development of the information society.

We congratulate all IIS employees and partners on the 27th anniversary of the company and wish you all good health, good mood and enduring faith in success!

To illustrate this greeting, we generated a picture using artificial intelligence, asking it to be done in the Renaissance style. This is what came out of it…

Please meet the fourth issue of the scientific and analytical journal “Information Society” for 2025. The main theme of the issue is Knowledge is the mainstay of the information society. The articles in this issue cover, among others, the following topics:

The problem of “undisclosed public knowledge”
Cognitive agency of Artificial Intelligence
Digitalization and sanction pressure
Knowledge as a key business asset
Opportunities and risks of innovation exchange in the digital economy
The current stage of the productivity paradox
Information expansion and identity
“Network people” and new media
Quantum communications for information security
The phenomenon of visual storytelling

In her address to readers “Knowledge is the light and freedom of the information society”, the journal’s editor-in-chief Tatiana Ershova wrote:

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Henry Ford once said it very correctly: “If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security a human can have in this world is a stock of knowledge, experience, and ability.” Who better than an American billionaire could grasp the true essence of wealth to judge this? A whole century has passed since he said this, but his words are still true.

Sociologists claim that new generations (zoomers, Alpha), who grew up in the digital world, are much more indifferent to money and the consumption of material goods, but they are very intensive consumers of information and technology, which, in the absence of the necessary knowledge, can lead a person into a dead end and will certainly not protect against manipulation or ensure independence and happiness. The coming Beta generation will live in the era of artificial intelligence, and for them, knowledge will become an antidote to neural network hallucinations and other negative consequences of progress.

And the majority of currently living representatives of older generations also achieved success and self-realization thanks to knowledge. Those of them who sought to understand the secrets of nature, including human nature, received, thanks to knowledge, an inoculation against pseudoscientific concepts and cynicism. The Russian writer Mikhail Prishvin once very accurately expressed this in his book “Diaries 1914-1917”: “Knowledge is an eternal monument to the struggle between talented lies (mysticism) and talentless truth (rationalism).”

The improvement of technologies leads to the accumulation of enormous intellectual capital, which is associated with the formation of a knowledge economy. This concept was popularized in his work “The Age of Discontinuity” (1968) by social philosopher, futurologist and management theorist Peter Drucker. Its essence is the strengthening of the importance of knowledge as a driving force of socio-economic development.

Our editorial board has always attached great importance to research in the field of knowledge economy. For example, the last double issue of our journal for 2002 was entirely devoted to the materials of the international conference “Partnership Networks as Instruments for the Development of the Information Society and the Knowledge Economy”, which took place on December 9, 2002 in Moscow. The conference, organized jointly by the Institute of the Information Society and the Global Knowledge Partnership, brought together more than 100 scientists, experts, politicians, public and government figures from 19 countries who were actively involved in the formation of the “knowledge-intensive economy”. Numerous materials from the issue, available online thanks to the journal archive, remain relevant to this day. We took care to translate all the reports made in English into Russian.

In this issue of the journal, we publish three articles directly related to the problems of the knowledge economy: “Artificial Intelligence in the Perspective of Cognitive Agency” by S. A. Khmelevskaya and D. N. Ermakov, “Impact of Digitalization on Knowledge Management in the Digital Economy” by N. V. Dneprovskaya and I. V. Shevtsova, “Exchange of Innovations as a Progressive Model of Sharing in the Digital Economy” by N. P. Kononkova and D. A. Mikhailenko. We will always give the green light to publications devoted to the knowledge economy.

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The full text of the issue can be found on the journal’s website.

The issue is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the honored scientist of the Russian Federation, member of the editorial board of our journal Prof. Konstantin Kolin.

The articles in this issue cover, among others, the following topics:

Cognitive potential of informatics
Information technology as a resource in hybrid warfare
Socioengineering attacks and their classification
Swarm algorithms for effective organization and management
Modeling an intelligent agent for solving economic problems
Measuring the potential of quantum technologies
Digital transformation of manufacturing industries
Regulatory framework for digital technologies in healthcare and agriculture
Artificial intelligence systems in the field of culture

The full text of the issue can be found at http://infosoc.iis.ru/issue/view/70

President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin set the following tasks: to focus on fundamental areas in the field of AI and conduct research in other areas, but with the mandatory use of AI technologies. Within the framework of the federal project “Artificial Intelligence”, operated by the Ministry of Economic Development, a grant competition is being held for research centers on AI.

In 2024, a foresight session was held, which identified 10 priority areas for the development of artificial intelligence. The selection of the third wave takes these priorities into account. The Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Education and Science are preparing a unified research program in the field of AI.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko presented the results of the selection of the third wave of research centers in the field of artificial intelligence, summarized based on the work of the relevant competition committee to determine the winners. One of the members of this committee was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute of the Information Society Yuri Hohlov.

A total of 19 applications from 10 regions were submitted for selection. The centers’ programs cover key areas of foresight: agent systems, elements of strong AI, fundamental and generative AI models.

The winners were HSE, Innopolis, ISP RAS, ITMO University, MIPT, Skoltech, and Lomonosov Moscow State University. They will receive grants to conduct research and create world-class breakthrough industry solutions.

Each of the 7 selected third wave centers will receive 676 million rubles for 2 years (until 2026) to conduct fundamental research in the field of strong, trusted, multi-agent AI. “The total amount of budget funding will be 4.7 billion rubles for all centers,” said Dmitry Chernyshenko.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister, investments in such centers have already proven their effectiveness.

• The first wave centers dealt with issues of strong, trusted, ethical artificial intelligence.
• The second wave is dedicated to industry research for medicine, transport, industry and smart cities.

These centers create almost half of all Russian scientific groundwork in AI.

Dmitry Chernyshenko asked the selected centers to support the winners of the AI ​​Olympiads, who also took part in the event.

Source: Official channel of the Government of the Russian Federation

On May 28, 2025, a strategic session on international standardization in the field of artificial intelligence was held at the All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences (VINITI RAS).

Deputy Director General of the Russian Institute of Standardization Alexei Ivanov spoke about the main areas of international standardization, the possibilities and prospects for the Russian Federation’s participation in it. In his report, he noted the positive impact of standardization on the economy (for example, the standardization of container transportation made it possible to reduce loading/unloading costs by 36 times and reduce carriers’ downtime by 2 times).

Sergei Garbuk, Chairman of TC 164, made a report on the standardization of artificial intelligence in ISO/IEC SC 42. He spoke about the structure of the 42nd subcommittee, areas of work and the contribution of Russian experts to the development of international documents. He paid attention to the features of AI systems based on machine learning models, the risks of suboptimal regulation of AI and the relationship between national and international standardization.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute of the Information Society, Chairman of TC164/PC02 “Data” Yuri Hohlov presented a report on the topic: “The landscape of standardization. Working with data for artificial intelligence.” He spoke about the life cycle of data in AI systems, about international and national standardization of AI and big data, as well as about the timing of the implementation of standards in the field of data and AI in Russia and abroad.

An expert of TC164/PC02 Andrey Khramtsovsky spoke about how to join the work of ISO/IEC as an expert from Russia. From his report, the participants of the strategic session learned about the competencies and skills that an ISO expert must have, how to register as an expert, the forms of participation in ISO (preparation of comments, voting, etc.), the rules of conduct for experts, as well as other aspects. Concluding his report, A. Khramtsovsky invited those present to join the work of ISO/IEC experts from Russia.

Maya Mlyakova, chief specialist of VINITI RAS, shared her experience in maintaining the standards of the ISO/IEC AWI TS 22440 Artificial intelligence – Functional safety and AI systems series. She spoke about the most popular standards of the 42nd subcommittee, about how the meetings on their development are held and noted that the activity in ISO/IEC is involvement in the community of motivated Russian and foreign experts, in the creation of in-demand international documents in the most rapidly developing area. Participants of the strategic session were also given the opportunity to choose international standards that relate to the area of their scientific interests, and subsequently join the working groups on their development. More than 70 representatives of interested organizations took part in the strategic session on international standardization in the field of AI in person and in the videoconference format.

Source: TC 164 web site

On May 28, 2025, an exhibition of artist Svetlana Maksimovna Kolesnik opened in the Moscow Regional Branch of the Union of Artists of Russia on Krutitsky Val. She has been constantly collaborating with our institute for over 20 years, but she does not part with her first profession — she constantly creates new works and holds prestigious solo exhibitions.

Svetlana Kolesnik was born on May 19, 1959 in Podolsk, Moscow Region, in the family of artist Maxim Efimkin, one of the founders of the Podolsk Association of Artists, a branch of the Union of Artists of Russia. In 1975, she graduated from the Podolsk Art School. In 1981 she graduated from the art and graphic faculty of the Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (the former Potemkin Institute, which her father graduated from before the Great Patriotic War).

In 1983, she joined the youth association of the Moscow Regional Union. Since 1985, she worked as a painter in the Podolsk interdistrict art and production workshops of the Union of Artists. Since 1995 she is member of the Union of Artists of Russia.

Svetlana works in the genres of portrait, landscape and still life. In addition, she paints icons. She settled in the village of Dubna (Chekhov urban district) 17 years ago.

The artist’s works are stored in private collections in Russia, Austria, the USA and Canada, the Podolsk Art Gallery, the Historical and Memorial Museum-Reserve “Podolye” (Podolsk), churches of the Chekhov district of the Moscow region and the Kaluga region, the art museum of the city of Mogilev.

Svetlana Maksimovna is the widow of the airborne officer Yuri Gorbonos, who fought in many hot spots, including Afghanistan.

According to the author of the exhibition, an artist must first of all understand that he is a part of Godэs world, endowed with special abilities to comprehend this world, to know its beauty and harmony. She is against shocking formalism or some kind of fictitious salon with excessive naturalism.

This exhibition reflects how the artist now understands for herself what is happening to us and our Motherland. In this regard, the name of the exhibition is “At the Holy Spring”. Here is what she said at the opening of the exhibition:

“We all drink water from the holy spring of the Russian land and the Orthodox faith. We are lucky that we have it, this spring of beauty of our native nature, flowers and herbs, close and distant good people. But our times are difficult, associated with the war, the death of loved ones in it. However, those who are now fighting in the Special Military Operation zone should also understand that they are protecting, first of all, this sacred source of beauty and peaceful life for you and me.”

There have always been so-called “hot spots” in Russia and in different parts of the world. And if we had not defended our interests, we would have lost our lands, our holy spring. That is why the exhibition includes portraits of the artist’s husband, Major Gorbonos, Father Cyprian, Pashka the mortarman (Sergeant Kirill Kalinichev, who died in the SMO), Alexander Marshal, who sings and composes songs about the war, and organizes concerts in the SMO.

The opening of the exhibition was attended by IIS founders and veterans: Yuri Hohlov, Tatiana Ershova and Viktor Stroganov. They congratulated Svetlana Maksimovna on another large exhibition and wished her further creative success.

Dear colleagues, partners, friends!

May 17 has been World Telecommunication Day since 1969. This day was established by the Plenipotentiary Conference held in Malaga Torremolinos in 1973 to commemorate the founding of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention in 1865.

In November 2005, the World Summit on the Information Society called on the UN General Assembly to designate 17 May as World Information Society Day to highlight the importance of ICT for development and to focus on a wide range of issues related to the information society. In March 2006, the General Assembly adopted resolution 60/252, which established that World Information Society Day should be celebrated annually on 17 May.

In November 2006, at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Antalya (Turkey), it was decided to celebrate May 17 as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. The updated resolution 60/252 invites Member States and sector members to commemorate this day every year through the organization of appropriate national programs.Digital technologies have the power to accelerate progress across every sector of society, yet that potential remains out of reach for many. Of the 2.6 billion people still unconnected, the majority are women and girls. Gaps in access and affordability of the internet and digital devices, as well as limited digital skills, continue to hinder the participation of women and girls in today’s economy and in shaping tomorrow’s digital solutions. Bridging this divide is essential to unlocking new pathways for economic growth, innovation, and sustainable development.

For this reason, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2025 highlights the pressing need to advance digital gender equality, so that women and girls everywhere can also benefit from and contribute to digital transformation.

Source of picture:  supr.ru