Gennady Butkin, Alexander Tuzikov
The National Space Program and the prospects of space activities in Belarus
The article presents the results of implementation of the National Space Program for 2008-2012. The directions of the development of the space branch in Belarus for the following five years are considered.

Alexander Tuzikov, Sergei Korenyako
Joint development of space technologies of Belarus and Russia
The article deals with the results of implementation of the space programs of the Common State: creation of special remote sensing equipment, new technologies of data receipt and processing.

Arkady Ivanov, Yosif Kantsev, Eleonora Zeghe,
Alexander Prikhach
Control of atmosphere pollution and condition of earth surface using airspace method
This method offered by authors enables to calculate atmosphere pollution and control the condition of earth surface.

Boris Belyaev, Leonid Katkovsky, Victor Sosenko
Remote sensing methods and the equipment for space studies of the Earth
The authors tell about spectral radiometers and space systems of remote sensing to have been created at the Research Institute for Applied Physical Problems of the Belarusian State University, and also about the methods of airspace data processing.

Alexander Kruchkov, Leonid Sobol, Elena Sotikova
System of record keeping, land classification and real estate units
The article considers the integrated geoinformative system due to which types of land and real estate units are identified on photos and classified. Software blocks of the system are described.

Vladimir Saechnikov
Airspace education in Belarus
The author of the article tells about training in the field of space branch: the Center for Airspace Education of the Belarusian State University, faculties and educational programs.

Zhanna Komarova
Success of an enterprise is people and technologies
The paper presents the interview with the chief engineer of the association “Planar”, D.Sc. in engineering, professor Vladimir Matyushkov, who discusses the problems of creating the national precise equipment and the problems of formation of a technological sector in the republic.

Diana Burkaltseva
System of the economic security of the state: necessity of formation and structural elements
The article deals with the necessity to form the economic security of the state which is defined as a system of measures, forms and tools to regulate the functioning of the national economy.

Elena Milashevich
Ways of increasing the efficiency of medical service export
The author considers the prospects of the medical services export and the activities to stimulate their further growth.

Pavel Dick
Investments in Belarus: problems and achievements
The paper presents the interview with the head of the Investment department of the Ministry of Economy Sergei Vaytekhovsky about the ways of development of the investments in the republic and the measures that the government takes up to implement them.

Pavel Dick
Israel’s experience of economic develop ment in the absence of natural resources
The article reveals Israel’s approach to solving the economic problems in the absence of natural resources

Marina Basyleva
Human Capital Management: theoretical and practical problems
The essence of human capital and its basic elements are analyzed in the article. The components of investments into social capital are described. The theoretical aspects are considered on the basis of the analysis of development of human capital in the economy of Belarus.

Irina Emelyanovich
National Institute of Higher Education: a constructive stimulus to educational solutions
The article presents the interview with the rector of the National Institute of Higher Education, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Mikhail Demchuk about new educational solutions directed at the improvement of the quality of specialists training.

Andrei Morokov
Crowdsourcing as a mechanism of company management
The paper deals with one of the new mechanisms of running business – crowdsourcing, a practice of attracting a large group of people to solve definite problems and objectives of a company, and other tasks important to the society.

Valery Tsepkalo, Valery Starzhinsky, Olga Pavlova
Modernization and innovative development of the HI-Tech Park
The authors of the article focus on the strategy of economic modernization of the country, the creation of the national platform and key factors of success of the Belarusian IT-sector and HI-Tech Park.

Zhanna Komarova
Nikolai Myshkin: missions of science is to create foundations for the technologies of the future
The director of V.A. Belyi Metal Polymer Research Institute, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, touches upon the problems of the development of the Belarusian science in modern times.

Georgy Losik
Lemma about the anthropogenic nature of the development of information technologies
The author of the article describes the lemma where information technologies are viewed as a new technological turn of further non-biogenic development of the human psyche.

Vadim Sarantsev, Boris Khina, Elena Kakoshko
Shungite as a raw material to get fire proof and heat resistant materials
The paper presents the results of research on identifying the possibility to use shungite for getting fire proof and heat resistant materials on the basis of the system Al–SiO2–C applying SHS method.