The most important problems of modern Belarusian ethnological science, which were investigated by the researchers of the Department of Ethnology, Center for Studies of Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, have been identified.

The article examines the Belarusian historiography in the field of ethnogenesis of Belarusians and the Belarus’ ethnic history of the late 20th – early 21st centuries. The relationship of scientific work with the demands of the society is shown, as well as the opportunities for the Belarusian ethnological science development.

The article describes the labor and agricultural traditions of the harvest holidays and rites of the Belarusians: worldviews, rites, customs, habits, omens, beliefs.

The article analyzes the preservation of animal husbandry traditions in Belarus on the basis of ethnographic research, archival and statistical sources.

The author considers the main traditions of raising children in a modern family, their role in a modernized society is shown on the basis of ethnosociological research conducted by the Belarusian ethnologic team of Vitebsk, Mogilev and Gomel university students.

The article analyzes the development and role of the Belarusian traditional peasant costume as a national treasure

The article considers the peculiarities of Belarusian food traditions, distinguishes the main components: dishes, technologies, meals, table etiquette; it emphasizes the
importance of food traditions for the development of gastronomic tourism in Belarus.

The role of religious holidays in the life of modern Belarusian society has been analyzed.

The author considers the modern religious, family and community holidays of the Belarusian Jews, their features and new elements appeared in present-day conditions.

The article discusses the goals and principles of the State System of Scientific and Technical Information (SSSTI) of the Republic of Belarus as an integral part of the national innovation sphere, which accumulates, stores and processes data created in the country in the field of science and technology, their inclusion in the global information space and access of Belarusian users to its resources. The author provides a methodology for assessing and determining the optimal volume of expenditures for the SSSTI, its functioning and development.

The authors investigated the theoretical and methodical basis and mechanisms of management, in particular the innovational production cluster structure. There were studied the problems of the science and innovation further development, the technologies and innovations transfer activation with the innovational structure participation under the innovational production cluster model.

The effects of the emerging digital economy for developing countries have been analyzed in terms of value creation and benefits

The article considers the main trends of the European policy of the targeted software for the SME digitalization. Proposals for the conceptual business digitalization map have been formulated, emphasizing the individual components of the Digital Economy and Society Index.

It is an essay about the young scientist-economist Egor Gusakov, who proved the prospects for the new forms of agro-industrial complex by building the ladder to the future.

The article considers the strategy of the Republic of Belarus in the field of separate collection of household waste and substantiates the need for a new deposit-pledge system in our country, which is successfully used in many European countries and was developed in Belarus in 2015. The preconditions for the emergence of this concept, its economic feasibility and subsequent stages of waste processing are analyzed.

The seeds of the medicinal plant evening primrose (Oenothera biennis L.), having the invasive status in Belarus, are a source of pharmacologically valuable oil with a high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), including γ-linolenic acid. For the first time, the authors established that oil from O. biennis seeds collected in various regions of the republic is not inferior in quality to world analogues, is balanced in the composition of PUFA, and is characterized by a pronounced hypolipidemic and immunomodulatory effect. It is assumed that strategies developed to use this species as the basis for various purpose import-substituting phytopreparations will help limit its expansion in Belarus

The authors analyzed the technologies of sorghum crop cultivation for green mass obtaining in the conditions of the Vitebsk region. The technological recommendations have been developed for cultivation in single-species and mixed crops.

It has been shown that content of phenolic compounds with valuable pharmacological and other useful properties increases in plants for various economic purposes which are treated with phytoregulators of auxin-like type and prolonged action.

The authors studied the influence of the combination of TGFβ and IGF growth factors, as well as the differentiation time, on the induction of MSC chondrogenesis in vitro. It is proved that MSCs located in 2D and 3D systems, when exposed to TGFβ/ IGF, showed the signs of early chondroblast- like cells in 7 days. The TGFβ/ IGF used for the induction of MSCs is more preferred, because it results in a more pronounced hypertrophic-suppression effect. The absence of significant differences in gene expression (excepting Sox9) on the 7th and 21st days of chondrogenic differentiation allows the process to be reduced in vitro to 7 days.