Scientific and technological potential of the state is vital to achieving and maintaining a high level of development in the XXI century.

On February 25, international credit rating agencies again brought nervousness on world stock and commodity markets.

Helmand province is one of the key strongholds of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

On February 16, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama has announced a loan guarantee of $ 8.33 billion to build two units of the first for 30 years nuclear power plant in the United States.

If the president keeps his nerve, he'll get the country's support. President Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday night deserves to be cheered. Over the objections of his vice president and despite opposition from his political base, the president is sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan to fight terrorists.

Nowadays it is hard to find a country that does not participate in global processes, generated in a single world space. At the same time, recent trends indicate that the economic development of these processes occur with the greatest speed. Evidence of this is the current world financial and economic crisis, which affected almost every country in the world. This crisis revealed a number of fundamental issues of sustainable economic growth for both developed and developing countries.

Since late last year, when the global economic crisis has already gained quite a strong movement, most states began to build its economic policies with a priority based on its own strength. Many countries (the largest - USA, EU, China) presented the world community its national anti-crisis programs, the thrust of which was to allocate large funds to support the troubled sector. A year later, many experts were able to analyze the main results of anti-crisis measures of individual countries, among which the most successful and proved to be indicative of China. Some analysts believe that success in this area promises to China gaining global economic leadership in the future.

The situation in Afghanistan remains one of the most pressing issues in international discussions on global stability and security.

The «soft power» concept was initially defined on scientific and theoretical levels by the American political scientist, Harvard University professor Joseph Nye, based on the United States foreign policy to maintain its positive image in the world and to promote the best features of American culture and its social achievements. The concept has demonstrated its effectiveness in theoretical and practical terms initiating much discussion around this topic, but also gave impetus to the natural process of transformation the original, which was already a classic, the understanding of «soft power».

In conditions of energy globalization and unstable situation in the world energy market, as well as the ongoing global economic crisis, leading nations of the world are forced to revise their approaches in providing energy security which becomes a basic element of their national security system. Along with measures such as diversification of sources of energy resources imports and exports, energy saving, development of alternative energy, updated the question regarding the strategic reserves of energy resources.