Zhanna Komarova
Restructuring of Science - the imperative of our time
The article deals with the results of scientific activities of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus for 2011 and tasks for the nearest future

Boris Yudin
Human being as an object of transformation and cognition
The author of the article, an outstanding scientist in the sphere of bioethics, considers marginal zones of human beings, within which technological interference can have an effect, and tries to answer the question “what is a human being?”

Vladimir Savchenko
Pluralism of future and human prospects
Kant’s classical questions to an individual now concern everybody: what must we know, what must we do, who are we, where do we go? The article touches upon the problems of mapping on the human genome, evolution of species and biosphere.

Yadviga Yaskevich
Bioethical and gender discourse in moral and legal framework
The author of the article draws a special attention to the problem of relations between bioethical and gender discourses, interrelationship of bioethics and gender from the social-cultural and informative point of view.

Yosif Zalutsky, Svetlana Pashkevich,
Vladimir Kazbanov
Bioethics and independent expertise of biomedical research
Technical progress leads us beyond traditional moral values. What approaches should the researchers use while conducting experiments with the participation of animals and people, what moral and ethical principals shouldn’t they ignore? The authors of the article try to give the answers to these questions.

Natalya Lazarevich
Biotechnologies and social responsibility
The paper deals with the influence of scientific and technical progress on the life of society what is reflected in the creation and use of different technologies.

Sergey Dromashko, Elena Makeeva,
Maya Kholmetskaya
The article deals with the problems of marking GMO food products in Belarus.

Valery Baynev
Innovations as a factor of disproportions of a regional development
The article deals with economic determinants of disproportions of a regional development. While considering this process a special attention is drawn to the influence of innovations as well as the ways of solution to this problem for the Republic of Belarus.

Anton Slonimsky
The potential for cross-border business
The author of the article analyzes the progress and problems of transborder cooperation on the border of Belarus and the countries of the European Union.
Vladimir Goncharov
Resources and organizational mechanism of industrial ergodisign
The paper considers the peculiarities of organizing the work in the sphere of ergonomics and design in industrial companies of economically developed countries. The cooperation of designers with other specialists is stated. The essence of priorities of ergodesign is formulated.

Irina Emelyanovich
Knowledge cast in metal
The Institute of Metal Technologies is presented under the heading “Open Doors”. This institute is one of the most successful institutions of the NAS of Belarus, which is a typical example of an innovative enterprise, embodying high technology development in products of high quality.

Alexander Grigoryev
Belarus in EuroAsian patent family
The paper presents the analysis of work of the EuroAsian patent office and its contribution into informational support of the innovative activity of the EurAsEC countries.

Pavel Dick
Ambivalence of uneasy decisions
The paper presents the conversation about different ways of activation of the cooperation with the scientists who went abroad to work, and acceptable forms and mechanisms of this cooperation.

Tamara Chernyshova
Prediction as a means of management
The author examines the role of technological forecasting in the modern world

Ivan Vorobyev, Elena Sidorova
Territorial ecological structures – an important resourceful potential of economy
The authors state a hot issue problem of a rational use of ecological resources of Belarus. They analyze the experience, explain the problems and suggest the ways of involving an ecological constituent into the system of economic relations.

Dmitry Grummo, Mikhail Ilyuchik,
Natalya Zelenkevich, Nikolay Voznyachuk, Dmitry Zhilinsky
Ecological mapping of the nature
The article summarizes some results of research on a large-scale mapping of vegetation that was conducted with the use of the data of remote and ground sensing.

Mikhail Kulak, Alexander Fedorenchik,
Evheny Leonov
Forecasting of fuel storekeeping under the conditions of forest and energetic terminals
The authors introduce readers a complex of models on the basis of a logistical function determining the work of forest and energetic terminals, mainly forecasting the influence of physical, chemical and microbiological process on wood fuel in the course of its processing and storage under the conditions of forest and energetic terminals.