Vladimir Lebedev
Vasiliy Chernik: “We can reasonably be proud”
Vasiliy Chernik, Deputy Minister of Culture, speaks on the trends in national culture, efforts the state undertakes for its development and moral values and favours of our people.

Valeriy Poznyakov
Culturology: Future in the preset
The article analyzes the modern culture in the world and in Belarus. The author considers the historical background, describes the present-day situation and underlines the necessary development of the discursive practice.

Egor Eroshevich
Sociocultural portrait of the contemporaries
The basic and instrumental value vectors can be revealed by means of theoretical and empirical analysis of persons life strategies, followed by the model of the sociocultural behavior of different Belarusian social groups, developed on their basis. This is the matter of discussion with associate professor Irina Lashuk, Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

Natalia Sosnovskaya
The transformation of family values in the modern Belarusian society
The article deals with the transformation of family values in its basic components, those being marriage, parenthood and relationship. There are given results of survey showing the changing basic trends in family values of the Belarusian people.

Vladimir Lebedev
Where is Belarus going? A writer’s view
Victor Martinovich, a writer, a playwright, an art critic, a researcher, who defended a dissertation on the Vitebsk arts school, speaks on the processes and problems of the Belarusian culture, observing them from inside and outside.

Elena Drovnina
The national cultural values as a factor of economic development
The article considers the cultural values in progressive cultural environment as opposing to the static one (in Belarus) and its possible contribution to the economic development of the country.

Maria Hardzeichyk
Internationalization of resources for national economies’ innovative development
The article considers the foreign resources role in the national economies innovative development in the context of international ratings. It was shown, that it was necessary to consider these foreign resources as a separate economic category for their further investigating and attracting to the economy.

Elena Voytekhovskaya
Defining the competitive ability of the region
The article gives the definition methods of the competitive ability of the regions using the integral index. There have been studied the theoretical foundations of the issue and analysed the competitiveness factors of the territorial units.

Sergey Matokh
The mechanism of innovative development of agricultural production results comprehensive evaluation
There have been reviewed and summarized the methodological approaches to the agricultural production assessment. The innovation rate of the sector has been calculated based on the agricultural organizations data, and proposals to improve the effectiveness of innovations have been given.

Denis Moroz
Veterinary medicine – Goodness and loftiness
It is the interview with Natalia Shchemeleva, a senior researcher of the Parasitology department, S.N.Vyshelessky Institute of Experimental Veterinary, who became a winner in “100 ideas for Belarus” in a nomination “Medicine and pharmacy” contest.

Ina Marakhina
Marketing innovations in Belarusian organizations
The author describes, gives a definition and indicates distinctive features of marketing innovations in Belarusian organizations. A theoretical basis for the marketing innovation formation is provided and management features for this process are specified.

Alisa Aksiuchyts
Development of foreign trade relations of the Republic of Belarus and the Baltic States
Among the main trade partners of the Republic of Belarus are the Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia). These states, due to their well-developed port infrastructure located in close proximity to the main export enterprises of the Republic of Belarus, are mostly transit countries for the main export commodities of Belarus.

Agonga Oinbonoha Fred
Network readiness indexes of Nigeria, Russia, China, Singapore and Belarus
The comparative analysis of network readiness of Nigeria, Russia, China, Singapore and Belarus in 2014 is provided in the article. The factors promoting fast distribution of information technologies are specified. Influence of level of network readiness of the studied countries on economic growth is estimated.

Janna Komarova
Profitable investing sector
The information is related to the future development opportunities of the biotechnological sector in Belarus.

Irina Emelianovich
Birds of a feather flock together
A team of the authors nominated for the State prize of the Republic of Belarus speak during the round table meeting at the journal’s office on the main achievements got in the process of many years’ investigation.

Olga Molchan
Ecological biopreparations for garden protection
There is shown a biological plant protection method as a promising approach reducing the pesticide impact in crop cultivation. There are presented also biopreparations for different diseases of fruits, vegetables, potatoes, bulbous and bulbotuberiferous flower plants.

Tamara Chernysheva
Department of Physics, Mathematics and Informatics
A contemporary approach The authors give the main developmental milestones of the Department of Physics, Mathematics and Informatics.

Yadviga Yaskevich
A paradigm of humanitarian psychiatry: formation and developmental opportunities
The article considers the ethical and axiological features of human mind investigation. In the framework of the psychiatric paradigm it is a complex psychometric and synergetic system as related to a concrete subject, sociocultural and moral experience of the society and humanistic ideas and values.