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ANNOTATIONS

George Shchokin
Expecting the Saviour:
Studies on Comparative Eschatology
   While studying archaic religious and mythological conceptions the author makes sure that images of various people's savers from the growing evil of this world sometimes reveal their opposite nature. Some religious and mythological traditions expect a «good saver» of one people, but for the others he appears the main embodiment of an evil source. At that the adherents of single religious currents can perceive the obvious evil as blessing or as such an evil that is a necessary condition for their access to «blessing».

Ihor Khraban
Ukraine — Germany: The Present-Day State of the Bilateral Relations
   The author traces in the article the Germany's interest in dynamic constructive relations with Ukraine. This is confirmed by corresponding German foreign-policy activity, which is directed at the development of the German-Ukrainian relations, forming a contractual and legal framework, signing a considerable number of important agreements, and exchanging delegations on different levels.

Nasser Naymi
The Islamic Banking System
   A new type of financial institutions — Islamic banks — is build up on totally new ideological principles than the European or Asian ones, for it conducts banking transaction on an interest-free base. In view of the expanding economic cooperation and increasing trade turnover between Ukraine and the Islamic countries it becomes necessary to open Islamic banks' branches in this country. At that Ukrainian economists and bankers should comprehensively study the Islamic banking system. This article is a review of new principles of this system, challenges it faces, its present-day state.

Vera Kutsenko
The Socio-Economic Sphere of Ukraine: State, Problems and Outlooks
   Ukraine accomplished a transition from the state-oriented mechanism to the market-oriented one. A success of any country in the socio-economic development substantially depends upon the manpower potential able to secure a high labour productivity, a stable and high-performance production, the author says. Therefore it is necessary to elaborate a scientifically well-founded strategy of the socio-economic development, to secure its consideration among experts and the large sections of the public, concludes the article.