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This work was supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science under the National Research Programme "Healthy Foods for a Strong Bio-Economy and Quality of Life" approved by DCM # 577 / 17.08.2018". Wine has been produced in Bulgaria for about 5000 years. The first wines were transported to our region from the Middle East. During the Thracian times wine was a part of daily life and pagan rituals in our territory. Organic production has existed since the 1980s. It develops in almost all countries in Wes...

Many centuries of social experience lead to the conclusion that conflicts and crisises are an inherent feature of all social activities, regardless of their nature, extent, social and cultural environment. The different assumption, namely that there are activities without internal or external contradictions, which appear in relationships between the participants of activities and their closer or further environment, should be treated as an assumption idealizing social reality. Social conflicts and crisises result ...

The main aim of the authors of this paper is a synthetic presentation of the assumptions of modern security science called “securitology”, widely promoted by security researchers in Poland. The authors borrow, reproduce and adapt their categories, which at the same time try to make them more specific with regard to the basic problem, which is security related to such care, control and supervision, as well as management, which allow for the persistence, survival, development and improvement of any system. This rese...

Comprehension of the Czechoslovak nomenklatura elite in the historical consciousness or in the national memory can be advanced by showing the examples of the impact of the political regimes on the interpretation of the symbolic role of the individual elite members. The contribution draws on those concepts and methodological approaches that have been employed by the number of historians and historical sociologists such as historical consciousness, collective (social) memory and national memory; a major incentive fo...

Military force and diplomacy have been conventional tools of advocating one’s national influence on the international arena for a long time. As a result of economic cooperation broadening and information technologies development economic and cultural interaction is coming to the fore. This gives us an opportunity to speak about the special role that strategic communication plays in the contemporary international relations and global politics. The pivotal role in the structure of the understanding of strategic comm...

The role of the interwar Czechoslovak elites in the historical consciousness or in the national memory can be advanced by showing the examples of the impact of the political regimes on the interpretation of the symbolic role of the individual elite members. The contribution draws on those concepts and methodological approaches that have been employed by the number of historians and historical sociologists such as historical consciousness, collective (social) memory and national memory; a major incentive for choice...