The rapid development of the Internet and the penetration of information technologies into all spheres of life have created conditions for the emergence and dynamic development of a unique phenomenon – crowdsourcing – a phenomenon that allows you to use the capabilities of the collective mind to solve complex problems, to involve the widest segments of the population to generate, discuss, evaluate ideas and proposals. Every year the influence of the virtual component in a person’s life increases: the Internet and social networks are used by people every day not only in their free time, but are actively used in work, study, for establishing communications and other purposes. It seems relevant to use crowdsourcing opportunities to involve the population in activities that are significant for the state, create creative thematic communities, raise awareness of citizens about events, participate in projects and initiatives to improve the planning of programs in the social sphere, including in the field of physical culture and sports. The crowdsourcing project, created with the active participation of involved citizens who share the interests and values of the community, has considerable prospects for further growth and replication. The task of this article is to try to form the boundaries of this phenomenon, to determine the crowdsourcing potential based on the structure of the human time fund.

In the context of a crisis of interaction with the Western world, the relevance of ensuring sustainable growth in the financial and economic performance of economic development in modern economic conditions directly depends on the level of energy efficiency and comes to the fore. Modern economic conditions demonstrate a direct dependence of this growth on the level of energy efficiency. The stages of formation of an energy efficiency strategy are considered and the author clarifies the content of the strategy for ensuring the energy efficiency of an enterprise, which is a system of long-term, interconnected goals, objectives and priorities of its financial and economic activities in the field of implementation and use of energy-intensive technologies, operation of fuel and energy equipment, coupled with the general outline of organizational and economic mechanisms for their achievement in specific economic conditions.. We have systematized the main stages of the formation and implementation of the strategy for ensuring the energy efficiency of management models. The main elements of information support of this process are highlighted. The basic directions of changing the content of such stages of strategic management of energy development of management models in the national economy of the Russian Federation in the conditions of the pandemic-sanctions macroeconomic crisis of 2020–2022 are presented.

Currently, demographic processes in our country have acquired a strongly pronounced negative connotation. This was facilitated by many different factors and, above all, a decrease in the birth rate and an increase in mortality, as a result of which the processes of depopulation are becoming more and more clearly manifested. In turn, the level of demographic development of the region serves as an indicator of the standard of living and well-being of the population of the region.

The purpose of the study proposed by the authors is to form an assessment methodology and to identify the most significant factors influencing the level of demographic development of the regions of the Volga Federal District (PFD), using methods of multidimensional statistical and cluster analysis.

The result of the study is a quantitative assessment of the level of demographic development of the regions of the Volga Federal District on the basis of the functional dependence of the main components on the initial indicators obtained by the authors. The clustering of the regions of the Volga Federal District, based on the values of the main components, made it possible to classify them according to the level of demographic development. As a result of a comparative analysis of the average values of the main components of the regions of each of the clusters identified by the authors, the factors that should be paid special attention to each region of the Volga Federal District are identified. The methodology proposed by the authors can be used to assess the level of demographic development of regions and other districts of the Russian Federation, taking into account their characteristics.

The current stage of development of society involves the improvement of the management system due to the active increase in the volume of incoming information. In such conditions, the task of ensuring economic security within the country, region, and enterprise remains important. The article defines the concept of “economic security” and also examines its development path from the 17th century to the present day. A classification of economic security is given into state, regional and enterprise security. An analysis of the risks of ensuring economic security, ways of solving them taking into account the characteristics of different regions of the country are also carried out, and modern models for ensuring the development of economic security of the region are considered, with consideration of their characteristics and analysis. The analysis made it possible to determine the strengths and weaknesses of each of the models considered, their impact and the possibility of sustainable development of the region and ensuring the economic security of the country and the population living in it. It has been determined that the regional security model is formed and developed under the influence of various factors, the main of which are economic, national, political, social, and cultural aspects. Based on a scientific approach, an attempt was made to justify the need to apply the proposed approaches to the implementation of a high level of economic security from various spheres of the unstable economy of the region.

The article analyzes the modern Russian stock market. The purpose of the article is to study and analyze the factors affecting securities and identify those that will effectively predict the dynamics of financial markets. The article provides an assessment of the degree of dependence of Russian securities on Western sanctions, the weakening of the national currency, the slowdown in economic development, the COVID pandemic. The inflow of new funds from individuals to the stock markets and their associated growth are analyzed. From 2019 to October 2023, the total number of broker clients’ accounts on the Moscow Stock Exchange has grown significantly, from 3,9 million to 26,3. Reasons for this growth are a decrease in the profitability of bank deposits, dynamic marketing of financial organizations of brokerage services, rapid development of technologies in the field of financial services, an increase in free time among the population. The interrelation of investment decisions and qualifications of individuals and legal entities is shown. The obtained research results are of a practical nature and can be used in investment, analytical, valuation and portfolio activities related to effective investment in securities and other financial assets.

In the context of the transition of the world economy to the sixth technological order, marked, in particular, by large-scale processes of digital transformation of economic relations, many experts agree that blockchain and digital currencies of central banks (CBCBs) built on their basis, as one of the innovations of today, will have a significant impact on business processes. In particular, these technologies play a special role in the sphere of building and new organization of transnational payments and supporting global trade in general, including as part of the involvement of new participants whose access is limited by the current cost of cross-border money transfers, as well as infrastructural restrictions in the financial sector. Researchers attach no less importance to the technologies under consideration in the context of a tool for building a new system for organizing financial transactions in the context of sanctions restrictions on the access of national economies to global clearing services (SWIFT, etc.). However, it should be noted that the study of the feasibility of using digital currencies as part of ensuring cross-border payments in the context of systemic transformations requires, in addition to a systemic analysis of technological and regulatory risks, justification of the generated effects in both the economic and social spheres. This article is devoted to the solution of these issues, through the prism of developing conceptual approaches to the study of the problems posed.