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The article discusses the opportunities and mechanisms for strategic planning and proposals for the establishment of the Federal Fund to Support Russian football (FFSF) for acceleration of the development of football infrastructure: construction of stadiums, providing youth sports schools, support the preparation of new and upgrading of existing coaching staff considering approaching World Football Cup-2018. The legislative initiative on limiting Russian footballers’ wages level is also analyzed in the article.

The 90th anniversary of the appearance of Atlas Polski Continental dla automobilistów (Continental Atlas of Poland for Automobilists) published by Continental Caoutchouc Compagnie Ltd Warsaw is nearing. The Atlas was the first publication of its kind after Poland had regained its independence in 1918.

The article analyzes the current state of relations between the European Union and Russia, with a focus on the study of the causes, nature and consequences of the “freezing” bilateral co-operation, accompanied by the introduction of the European Union in respect of the Russian Federation set of restrictive measures and the application of the latest responses to protect their interests.

The previous publications [1, 2] dealt with the analysis of the main indicators to the world market of nanotechnological construction materials. Today this market is estimated at 12 milliard of dollars, and its rapid growth is expected soon. The present paper analyses the Russian market.

Some results of the industrial research «Development of Russian market of nanotechnological products in construction until 2020» have been published. Authors invite all interested specialists and specialized organization to take part in the broad public discussion.

The question of incorporating road maps into U.S. national assessments of forest fragmentation has been a contentious issue, but there has not been a comparative national analysis to inform the debate. Using data and indices from previous national assessments, we compared fragmentation as calculated from high-resolution land-cover maps alone (Method 1) and after superimposing detailed road maps (Method 2). There was more overall fragmentation with Method 2. However, because roads were often adjacent to other nonforest land cover, Method 1 typically detected > 80% of the forest edge and > 88% of the fragmentation of core, i.e., intact, forest that was detected by Method 2. Indices based on individual patch size changed much more for Method 2; for example, area-weighted average patch size was typically 50-90% smaller. The relative geographic distribution of core forest was the same for both methods. Our results emphasize that the question of incorporating road maps must consider the purpose of the assessment, the characteristics of the data, and the relative sensitivities of indices to different patterns of fragmentation. As a practical matter, unless road-caused fragmentation is of special interest, land-cover maps alone may provide an adequate representation of the geography of forest fragmentation.