Abstract: The subject of this research is the determination of factors that estimate the demand for Russian higher educational facilities among foreign students. The authors carefully examine these factors. An important element of information supports of management decisions aimed at increasing the demand for Russian higher education among foreign students, taken at the level of separate universities, as well as the level of national system of education, is the identification of significant factors that substantiate the choice of university by the foreign applicants. The goal of this work lies in determination of the factors that estimate the demand for Russian universities among foreign students by means of statistical analysis of monitoring indicators of the higher educational facilities. The conducted research allows concluding that the non-CIS students value such aspects as the type of university ownership (preference is given to the state educational facilities), its academic activities, as well as the level of development of international relations; the employment rate of university graduates matters insignificantly. In respect of the students from CIS countries, no reliable correlative links that allow making conclusions on the factors of choosing one or another Russian university were acquired.

Abstract: In this article the authors analyze the nature of socio-economic systems (SES) including business entities and peculiarities of interaction between their structural elements. The authors analyze the concept of 'information knowledge environment' and its role in the development of socio-economic systems. They  emphasize the importance of the information knowledge environment in the development of socio-economic systems. The authors also analyze the term 'managing changes' and peculiarities of this process under the conditions of the development of socio-economic systems. The authors offer their own mode for managing changes in the socio-economic systems and define positive and negative sides of the evolutionary and revolutionary approaches to managing changes in the SESs. The authors describe peculiarities of managing changes in the SESs. In the course of their research the authors use the method of ascent from the abstract to the concrete which implies a conventional dismembering of a research object and description of its features using numerous terms and characteristics. The main contribution made by the authors to the topic is, first of all, the fact that they have developed their own model for managing changes in business entities as socio-economic systems. The authors define positive and negative aspects of the evolutionary and revolutionary approaches to managing changes in the socio-economic systems and describe peculiarities of managing changes in the socio-economic systems.