The article discusses the risks of using cyberspace when automating control of industrial facilities, critical facilities, in the work of management and governance bodies, and the issues of cyber security.

The paper analyzes already arrived and potential consequences of the historic decision to exit Britain from the European Union, leading to the emergence and escalation of national, regional and global risks.

Globalization of the world economy is forcing companies to enter international markets by implementing investment projects and competing for scarce resources and markets in foreign countries. Companies are faced with the need to assess country risk in order to select attractive countries for investment with an acceptable level of risk. This work is devoted to development approach to the qualitative assessment of country risk.

The subject of this research is the system of risk management of Russian oil and gas companies that have resource exploration projects in the Russian Arctic. The study analyses risk management practices of such companies as Gazprom Neft, Lukoil, Rosneft, Zarubezhneft, Surgutneftegaz and Novatek. The main aim of this research is analyzing the risk management system, that includes environmental and social risk management, based on the information that is disclosed in the annual nonfinancial reports. Comparative analysis of the reported information is based on the authors' methodology for assessing the quality of the information disclosure within the limits of key risk management information indicators identified by the authors. This study examines the information provided by companies in their 2014 annual reports. The main results of the research are presented by determination of the leaders in the field of risk management among the surveyed companies. The practical significance of the study is determined by the ability to use the established methodology for assessing the risk management information disclosed in the annual reports of companies from other sectors of the economy and companies from other countries. This study is part of a larger research that is aimed at analyzing the system of environmental and social responsibility of Russian oil and gas companies that have their projects in theArctic.

The article discusses main risks of freight forwarding activities. A failure in one of the links of the logistics chain automatically increases the likelihood of the risk occurrence throughout the chain, so there is a need to build a supply chain based on the assessment of the sustainability of each link, understanding the probability of occurrence of risks in different operations.

The article considers possible prospects of new forms of chemical weapon creation and proposes the activity directions allowing to reduce hazards of their application. To create new forms of chemical weapon might be used achievements in the field of biotechnology and nanotechnology.

In this paper we develop and describe the Subject index and new problems of the discipline "Top economics. Management of socioeconomic safety" and List of unsolved problems in the theory of economy. We used the author’s book "Topeconomy. Economic Safety Management». Western publishing houses do not accept books for publishing without subject index. Russian books on Economics have not usually subject index. This shows about a small amount of new concepts and the results in books and the lack of understanding of the role of the index for structuring and learning of knowledge.