STRUCTURAL SHIFTS IN THE ECONOMY OF SIBERIA AND ITS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OBSTACLES
Interra-2010 impresses with its scale: almost 100 creative and discussion grounds in Novosibirsk, all concerning innovations. Interra is an ambitious name, it stands for “innovative territory”. Apparently, this is the way authors of projects and participants of discussions see Siberia in an indeterminate future. There is no telling this thought-dream is original. In the days of my studentship one professor from NSU deciphered the name “Siberia”: “Country of amazingly fast industrial development”. Still by the most popular version Siberia (Sib-Ir) in Russian translation stands for “Sleepy land”. The article was written on the basis of the author’s report, made at the Parliamentary hearings within the International youth forum Interra-2010, Novosibirsk, September 23, 2010.