Today the Republic of Latvia, like all the Baltic States, is going through a difficult stage in its development. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the expected reduction in financial assistance from the EU (due to Brexit) and the departure of Russian transit cargos, economic growth rates...
In connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as taking into account the instructions of the US Secretary of Defense, the American command in Europe announced a change in the course of the Defender-Europe 20 exercise. The events have been adjusted, the number of participants from th...
According to the state program of the digital economy and information society development for 2016-2020 the number of the Internet users per 100 people was to reach 77% by 2020. However, the Internet coverage in Belarus is growing much faster and the forecasts needed an update. Thus, th...
On the last day of January 2020, in Bielsk Podlaski (Poland), for the first time after canonization, the memory of 30 martyrs from the village of Starye Pukhaly who suffered for Christ as a result of terrorist acts by one of the units of the Polish anti-communist underground under the c...
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 Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research implements a comprehensive approach to the study and analysis of the processes taking place in the Belarusian information space. We keep track of media trends and analyze the available information flows.
We keep track of media trends and ...
The most relevant topics in the foreign media space dealt with the impact of coronavirus on the world economy and the major commodities, stock and currency markets. They point to a sharp drop in the Chinese stock market at the opening of the exchange markets after the Chinese holidays (...
Some researchers and experts call the modern Rada of the Belarusian People's Republic "the oldest operating government in exile". Others strongly disagree with this statement. Let's try to understand this issue by making a historical excursion.
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"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 ...
The missile strike of the US Air Force drones, authorized by the US President D. Trump, on the motorcade, in which the commander of a special unit of "Quds" of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, and a deputy head of the Iraqi Shiite militia Mahdi a...
By the time of the liberation of the Belarusian SSR from the Nazi occupation, about 35 thousand members of various collaborationist parties, organizations and armed formations were working on its territory: the Belarusian Independent Party (BIP), the Belarusian Youth Union (BYU), the Be...