We often appeal to patriotism without always understanding its essence. We have even become accustomed to the fact that patriotism is an umbrella for realizing someone's political goals, and even more often, certain business interests. Meanwhile, patriotism is not a political concept. E...
As the Head of State asserted, the civil servant will be equated to the military. This approach is justified by the fact that the civil service in the Republic of Belarus addresses the implementation of state policy and ensuring the State functioning.
The level of professionalism, comp...
In his address at the All-Belarusian People's Assembly, the Belarusian President noted that cultural heritage is one of the key pillars of the nation.
This is proved by the sociological studies. According to a survey made in November 2020 by the Institute of Sociology of the National A...
In his address at the All-Belarusian People's Assembly, the Head of State noted the sustainable inter-faith peace in Belarus, the absence of religious conflicts, the availability of churches, and freedom of religion.
Religious tolerance of Belarusians is the national brand of the count...
A demand for sociological information in the society is higher than ever, which is explained by the "reflection effect", which means the desire of a person to assess their image in the mirror of the public opinion.
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The number of false ("fake") information is constantly increasing, and, as BISR has already noted, it is becoming one of the most common tools of manipulating the public consciousness.
Sociology has a large number of tools and research methods. At the same time, in the ordinary sense i...
Modern Orthodox world map was taking its shape gradually, including under the influence of significant political events. Differences between the churches in the XX and XXI centuries were a common phenomenon, but the conflicts, that would have dragged into their orbit the entire Orthodox...
"The Third Rome" from Hilarion to Hilarion
The idea of combining the Slavic peoples around the Orthodox faith was expressed in the middle of the XI century in the "Sermon on Law and Grace" by Metropolitan Hilarion. In the XVI century the idea received in-depth and stable expression in ...
In the last decade, the concepts of "hybrid warfare" and "hybrid aggression" have gained a peculiar kind of popularity in political discourse, but no unified approaches to their interpretation have yet been developed.
Some approaches to the concept of "hybrid warfare" combine propagand...
In November 2019, the Ukrainian band TNMK released a cartoon video, which presents the history of Ukraine in five minutes. The cartoon is very close to its Belarusian counterpart, which was released in 2011, both in terms of form and content.
The very presentation of information in the...