Natalya Gusakova.
How do we protect ourselves from garbage?
An interview on the government’s waste management policy with the head of the Waste Management Department of the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus.

Sergey Kudian, Alexander Chernorubashkin
Waste management and utility waste recycling
Special Engineering and Design Bureau «Metallopolimer» designs cotton waste cutting machines as well as glass and construction waste crushing equipment thus contributing to the solution of the waste management problem.

Victor Shapovalov, Zenon Tartakovsky, Sergey Kudian
Recycling of polymer materials
Thermoplastic waste, and particularly polyolefin waste, is one of the most prospective and raw material resources with a very high capacity. The article explores various aspects of the polymer recycling process.

Alexander Volochko, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Mechislav Sadokha
Technologies and equipment for aluminum waste recycling
Scientists of the Physico-Technical Institute tell about efficient aluminum waste recycling technologies involving waste trituration for further use in various sectors of the national economy.

Nikolai Ruchai, Ilya Kuznetsov
Producing biogas from organic raw materials
An article about the ways of using biomass and waste to generate energy and produce fuel: anaerobic fermentation, bioconversion to ethanol, etc.

Gennady Zhuravsky
From waste to fuel
The A.V. Lykov Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer presents a gas generator design that enables simultaneous gasification of polymer waste, wood, rapeseed straw, poultry husbandry and cattle breeding waste as well as heavy oil and resin residue.

Svetlana Maksimova, Elizaveta Bychkova
Vermitechnologies – an environmentally friendly way of treating organic waste
Specialists of the Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for bioresources tell about an organic waste treatment method involving the use of a new genetic line of earthworms.

Irina Malgina
Small innovative business development programs
The article tells about small innovative business development programs implemented in the Republic of Belarus.

Tarbiz Aliyev, Liutveli Babayev
Investment and innovative aspects of Azerbaijan’s economic development
The article studies the dynamic indicators of Azerbaijan’s economic development, including the investment and innovative aspects of the country’s economy.

Galina Yasheva
Clusters in the Belarusian economy: theoretical foundations and practical mechanisms of their formation
The second part of the article continues exploring the ways and feasibility of forming industrial clusters in Belarus.
Pavel Dick
In science there are 95% of hard work and 5% of idea realization enjoiment
Mikhail Artemyev, Doctor of chemical sciences, head of a nanochemistry laboratory and one of the most quoted Belarusian scientists, shares his point of view regarding the reformation of the national science, ways of raising its level and efficiency, latest scientific achievements and everyday work of Belarusian researchers.

Liliya Gubich, Mikhail Kovalev, Alexander Tuzikov, Natalya Petkevich
IT-based reorganization of enterprises
The article studies the goals and objectives of creation and introduction of contemporary integrated information systems and technologies at industrial enterprises of the Republic of Belarus.

Valentin Panevchik, Mikhail Samoilov, Elena Kakoshko
Standardization in marketing
The article highlights tight connection of standardization and marketing since marketing research is an indispensable component of product quality assurance and the standardization is a powerful quality management instrument.

Boris Gusakov
Preparing master’s students for scientific work
The article provides examples from real dissertations that enable the students to understand the nature of a scientific mistake; it also gives graduate students a structural scheme of research that allows them to judge about the understanding of the systematic structure of their research.

Alexandra Gurko
Contemporary belarusian ethnology: problems and outlook
The article introduces the reader to the contemporary achievements of Belarusian ethnologists and explores the most important problems of the Belarusian ethnological science.

Irina Emelyanovich
Practical school of survival
Materialsof the «open doors» column are dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Radiobiology Institute of the national Academy of Sciences of Belarus

Vladimir Litviak, Valentina Moskva, Olga Romashko, Nikolai Yurkshtovich, Fedor Kaputsky
Studying peculiarities of chemical modification of starch
The scientific paper in question presents the results of a study on the peculiarities of chemical modification of starch.

Tatiana Madziyevskaya, Irina Savanovich, Tamara Shunkevich, Galina Asiutina, Alesya Belaya
Gluten free breadstuffs and mixes in the rations of gluten enteropathy patients
The authors raise the problem of saturating the domestic market with special dietary products and provide a collection of recipes of various breadstuffs and mixes for people suffering from gluten enteropathy.