The article considers the main priorities for the development of the Arab Republic of Egypt in the context of the implementation of the Strategy-2030 and the challenges of project implementation of large-scale international initiatives in Afro-Eurasia. The focus of the study is aimed at identifying the potential of the socio-economic aspect of the strategic partnership between Egypt and Russia in accordance with the needs of sustainable national development in the 21st century. The tasks of forming a new architecture of economic cooperation in the context of the deployment of development and security projects determines the relevance and scientific novelty of the issues underlying this work.

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the current state of international cooperation between Russia and China in the field of science and education. Scientific and educational cooperation between Russia and China is of great importance for both countries. In this regard, it is of interest to present the materials of the monitoring of scientific and educational cooperation with China, carried out through the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, supplementing them with relevant information on measures to overcome the consequences of the «covid crisis» in the field of scientific and educational cooperation, implemented through the Ministry of Education and Science.

The United States of America is a subject of international relations which took the leading position in application of unilateral sanctions, especially extraterritorial restrictive measures. The main target of the US extraterritorial sanctions are legal entities and individuals which are in the jurisdiction of third countries, namely member states of the European Union. The increasing sanction pressure against Iran in the 2nd half of 2010s has brought the problem of American extraterritorial measures in the US-EU relations to the fore. Consequently, the aim of this research is to reveal the contradictions between the USA and the EU due to the strong influence of secondary sanction on the European business and examine the main countermeasures taken by the EU authorities in this regard.

Discussions about the economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe focus on its ambitions, instruments and institutional characteristics. The factors determining integration into the EU and economic policy priorities after the COVID-19 pandemic are less discussed. The pandemic promotes European integration by redefining new boundaries between the state and the market in order to learn how to respond to long-term structural shifts.

To ensure a rapid increase in the level of competences of the population and its compliance with the tasks of sustainable development in the 21st century, the article proposes foundations for the project aiming at the development and testing of technologies for the formation of an integrated intellectualization system. The focus of this research is aimed at identifying, analyzing, and evaluating the effectiveness of intellectualization technologies implemented by universities. The relevance and scientific novelty of the issues underlying this work are due to the growing need for the rapid intellectualization of society in the context of the deployment of integration projects and projects of development as well as security insurance in Eurasia.

In the present study, the terminology related to the assessment of the digital maturity of enterprises is analyzed. A comparison of existing methods for assessing digital maturity is presented. The authors have developed a classification of the presented methods for assessing digital maturity.

On June 15-18, 2022, the 25th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2022) was held.