Minsk: Chinese New Year at National Art Museum of Belarus

In the after noon on February 9 local time, the National Art Museum of Belarus, which is located in the downtown of Belarus' capital city Minsk, held an activity to experienee the culture of the Chinese New Year.

ZTE Wins National IPTV Project in Belarus

ZTE Corporation (ZTE), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, successfully penetrates the Eastern European IPTV market by sealing an IPTV project contract with the Republican Unitary Telecommunication Enterprise (RUE) Beltelecom, a National Telecommunications Operator of the Republic of Belarus, in April 2008.

Tian Shihong meets with Belarus ambassador to China

SAMR Vice-Minister and SAC Administrator Tian Shihong met with the visiting delegation Led by Rudy Kiryl, Belarus Ambassador to China, on February 1, 2019.

Belarusian Identity in the Post-colonial Labyrinths

The paper focuses on an understudied aspect of the Belarusian identity.The special attention is paid to the key role of patterns in a collective consciousness,which determine the direction of human behavior and further development.Some typical mental stereotypes of modern Belarusians are analyzed in the context of Post-Soviet worldview.The paper emphasizes that the Belarusian society needs to define a clear basis of national idea,language,symbols,values,and traditions.This sphere becomes the place of power struggle today.The current colonial expansion by more powerful states is going now on more refined scheme than the previous primitive armed intervention,namely through cultural expansion and economic dependence of neighboring weaker countries.Interrelations between Russia and Belarus today are a vivid example.It is necessary to understand that the“Russian World”,that Kremlin’s propaganda offers to modern neighboring nations,will hold only a dictatorship,militarism,repression,and suppression of freedom.Today this is the main challenge not only for Belarusian identity but for its independence as well.

China and Belarus intensify standardization cooperation

SAMR Vice-Minister and SAC Administrator Tian Shihong met with Tataritsky Valentin BolesLavovich,Chairman of the State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus (BELST) and Anatolii Khotko,Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus on April 24.

Out-of-School Education in Belarus

Purpose:Countries with unique developmental paths and cultural lineages display significant variations in their out-of-school education systems.In this landscape,Belarus,a vestige of the disbanded Soviet Union,llustrates a distinct out-of-school education system,profoundly shaped by both Soviet and European Union countries influences.A meticulous examination and scholarly investigation into the Belarusian out-of-school educational framework could enable a more profound comprehension of the metamorphosis and transitions in the out-of-school education systems of nations that surfaced following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.This knowledge could subsequently render a more transparent understanding of the patterns guiding the evolution of global out-of-school educational systems.Design/Approach/Methods:This article focuses on out-of-school education in Belarus and discusses its development status and the following main characteristics:the dimensions of its historical development stage,legislative guarantee,essence and extension,training goals,and typical cases.Findings:Influenced by historical and geopolitical factors,Belarusian out-of-school education is found to embody the characteristics of both the Soviet Union and European countries.National resources are found to play an important role in the development of out-of-school education,effectively reducing the cost of education for families and shaping students'positive values.OriginalityValue:This study analyzes both the history and the current situation of out-ofschool education in Belarus and summarizes the country's successful experience in the development of out-of-school education.It can provide a positive point of reference for optimizing the public out-of-school education system in China and exert a positive influence on related educational reforms.

Determining the Drying Out of Coniferous Trees Using Airborne and Satellite Data

In recent decades, the problem of drying out of conifers has become a subject of significant importance due to the widespread mortality of trees caused by stem pest’s damage. Early detection of areas affected by insect outbreaks is of great relevance for preventing the further spread of pests. Forests of Belarus are largely affected by conifers dieback caused by the bark beetle. The aim of the study was to identify drying out conifers using a TripleSat satellite multispectral image of a woodland area in Belarus based on preliminary airborne measurements. Spectrometers operating in a spectral range of 400 - 900 nm were used in airborne measurements, resulting in distinguishing various drying out stages with an accuracy of 27% - 74% for aerial data. In this study, a supervised classification of the TripleSat image based on the method of linear discriminant analysis (LDA) was performed. The input data for LDA algorithm is a set of remote sensing vegetation indices. Results of the study demonstrate that about 90% of the test site is at the green-attack stage that is confirmed by ground surveys of this area.

现代白俄罗斯标准语的形成

现代白俄罗斯标准语漫长的形成过程与白俄罗斯曲折复杂的历史密不可分。其形成历史可分为三个阶段:古俄语标准语时期、鲁塞尼亚语标准语时期和现代白俄罗斯语标准语时期。在历史上,白俄罗斯语的使用和发展受到诸多社会因素的阻碍,所以相较于俄语来说,现代白俄罗斯标准语的形成时间较晚。一个民族的语言发展历史与其文化和民族的发展息息相关,因此,深入了解白俄罗斯语的形成历史是理解白俄罗斯文化发展和白俄罗斯民族意识形成的重要途径。

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