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Article is devoted to the analysis of factors and necessary conditions of formation of spiritually-moral world. Discusses adapting to the constitutive signs of spiritually-developed consciousness. Description of spiritually-moral situation of modernity and the origins of the fall of the spirit.

The paper considers the formation conditions and the specificity of manifestation of cultural archetypes of the Russian people and their influence on the current reality. The author highlights the national features, the essential values, and problem areas of the cultural archetypes. The emphasis is placed on logocentrism as an archetypal trait, understood as a desire for the essential, authentic, and sacral. This concept reveals such basic values as the desire for truth and justice, the idea of messianism and salvation. It is noted that such archetypal landmarks form one of the most important contradictions of the Russian mentality – the dominance of internal over external. The research methodology includes the historical and sociocultural approaches. There are also applied the methods of analysis, synthesis, analogy, generalization, comparison, and systematization.

The article is devoted to solving the problem of provision of food security of modern Russia. The purpose of the article is finding the solution to this problem and determination of the role of import substitution in provision of food security of modern Russia. This purpose is achieved with the following tasks: analysis of the influence of the Russian production on provision of economic security of modern Russia, allocation of the problem of development of food production in Russia, and development of the strategy of import substitution for provision of food security of modern Russia. The authors use the method of factor analysis for determination of the role of import substitution in provision of food security in modern Russia. In order to determine the perspectives of the increase of food security of modern Russian by means of import substitution, the authors use the method of economic & mathematical modeling and forecast which allows forming the model of the Russian food market as of now and forecast its changes in future within the framework of implementation of the import substitution strategy. As a result of the research, the authors develop the strategy of import substitution and build a graphical scheme of its realization in modern Russia. A key conclusion of the conducted research is a proof that import substitution plays an important role in provision of food security of modern Russia, as it allows reducing the dependence from import and develop the internal food production under the condition of the payback of invested assets, which reflects high effectiveness of the import substitution tool in provision of food security of modern Russia. DOI:10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n1s1p265

<i>Aims:</i> To estimate avoidable burden and avoidable costs of alcohol abuse in Canada for the year 2002. <i>Methods:</i> A policy effectiveness approach was used. The impact of six effective and cost-effective alcohol policy interventions aimed to reduce alcohol consumption was modeled. In addition, the effect of privatized alcohol sales that would increase alcohol consumption and alcohol-attributable costs was also modeled. The effects of these interventions were compared with the baseline (aggregate) costs obtained from the second Canadian Study of Social Costs Attributable to Substance Abuse. <i>Results:</i> It was estimated that by implementing six cost-effective policies from about 900 million to two billion Canadian dollars per year could be saved in Canada. The greatest savings due to the implementation of these interventions would be achieved in the lowering of productivity losses, followed by health care, and criminality. Substantial increases in burden and cost would occur if Canadian provinces were to privatize alcohol sales. <i>Conclusion:</i> The implementation of proven effective population-based interventions would reduce alcohol-attributable burden and its costs in Canada to a considerable degree.

Ukraine, with a population of 46.2 million, is the second largest country in Europe, with an area of 603 700 km(2). It is still recovering from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, following the Soviet stagnation era (since the mid-1960s) and perestroika (from 1986), as well as the 1998 Russian financial crisis and Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution. These events have resulted in high levels of socio-economic disparity, political instability and a degraded healthcare infrastructure. These issues, in addition to traditionally high levels of alcohol consumption, have made binge drinking and alcoholism, among other addictions, major problems in Ukrainian society (Voloshin et al, 2003).