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The paper features the data obtained from the analysis of a video strip with the help of ELAN 5.4, the free software developed by the experts from Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Language Archive, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The software enables to annotate video and audio strips, describing pauses, the duration of utterances, gestures, pronunciation and other linguistic and extralinguistic factors. The speaker in the video – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – delivers his official address to the leaders of the 10th BRICS leadership summit in Sandton, Johannesburg on July 26, 2018. BRICS is a powerful link of a global financial architecture. Its main targets are to mobilize resources for sustainable development projects of BRICS and to facilitate the global growth of multilateral and regional financial, educational and industrial institutions. The material and the speaker for the analysis belong to the domain of BRICS top level politics. South Africa was the main host of the leadership summit in 2018. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in his speech stressed the significance of the fourth industrial revolution highlighted by Professor Klaus Schawb at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2016. The notion of the revolution appeared in the South African leader's address 7 times. Nevertheless, the authors of the paper see more messages hidden between the lines of the South African President's address. In the paper it is argued that BRICS architecture has a right to be interpreted as an attempt of keeping the world away from further plunging into environmental degradation, the development of critical thinking and innovation among BRICS citizens. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the method of pauses analysis to reveal a more complex mixture of speakers' visions. Long pauses are meaningful and extremely informative for discourse analysis. The data may be relevant for discourse analysis experts, political journalists, educators and copywriters.

The agricultural production and agro-industrial sector are two major industries, the performance of which has an impact on the living standard of the population in different countries. The high quality of production in the agro-industrial sector determines both the availability of food for the population and the food security of the country. Taking into account that the most developed countries and countries with the transitive economy have already overcome the problem of food deficiency, and that still this problem exists in developing countries, this article suggests using a traditional tool for the quality management (Deming Cycle or PDCA), complemented by a strategically oriented approach. The main findings of the article are as follows:  Firstly, the problem of food sufficiency is solved in the global economy in a different way; the majority of population in developing countries does not have access to good quality food. This has a negative impact on their vital activities, as well as on the overall socio-economic development of such countries;  Secondly, the use of complicated management tools for steadily improvement of the production quality in the agro-industrial sector of developing countries is not always feasible from scientific and practical points of view. The complication of the tools does not involve the solution of the problem;  Thirdly, a traditional quality management tool, known as the Deming Cycle or PDCA, has a significant potential for use even now. This article provides a strategic approach to the use of the Deming Cycle (PDCA) to solve the problem of deficiency and low availability of good quality food supplies in developing countries. ; peer-reviewed

This article is devoted to the relevant problem of development of innovative approaches to energy saving and the use of renewable energy sources in order to reduce the costs of agro-industrial enterprises. It is concluded that promising directions for achieving sustainable development of agro-industrial enterprises include minimizing costs, synergistic approach to the combination of natural and economic resources, maintaining balance among economic, ecological and social factors, innovative competitiveness, and long-term focus. On the basis of the materials described in the article, it is considered necessary to formulate the main conclusions: • the efficiency of the activity of economic entities (including agro-industrial and agricultural producers) depends on the presence of innovative approaches to their management. At present, innovative technologies should be considered not only as a source of competitive advantages, but also as a tool to reduce costs in production, logistics, marketing, and other business processes;• renewable energy, which is based on modern high-tech technologies of the transformation of primary energy into energy sources, can become one of the key directions of costs optimization of agro-industrial and agricultural producers; this is confirmed by the practice and statistics obtained in the studies of the agro-industrial sector of the European Union, Asia, Eurasia, and Latin America;• for the Russian agro-industrial sector, the task of reducing costs is particularly acute, as the level of expenditures on energy supply is steadily increasing, which affects not only the profitability of business, but also its competitiveness. A sectoral energy model based on a combination of conventional and renewable energy sources has been developed to tackle this problem;the transition to renewable energy in the agro-industrial sector should be accompanied by energy audit and implementation of power management systems. This will determine the rational combination of energy resources used to ensure the normal functioning and sustainable development ; Este artículo está dedicado al problema relevante del desarrollo de enfoques innovadores para el ahorro de energía y el uso de fuentes de energía renovables con el fin de reducir los costos de las empresas agroindustriales. Se concluye que las direcciones prometedoras para lograr el desarrollo sostenible de las empresas agroindustriales incluyen minimizar los costos, un enfoque sinérgico de la combinación de recursos naturales y económicos, mantener el equilibrio entre los factores económicos, ecológicos y sociales, la competitividad innovadora y el enfoque a largo plazo. Sobre la base de los materiales descritos en el artículo, se considera necesario formular las principales conclusiones: • La eficiencia de la actividad de las entidades económicas (incluidos los productores agroindustriales y agrícolas) depende de la presencia de enfoques innovadores para su gestión. En la actualidad, las tecnologías innovadoras deben considerarse no solo como una fuente de ventajas competitivas, sino también como una herramienta para reducir los costos en producción, logística, mercadeo y otros procesos comerciales;• La energía renovable, que se basa en tecnologías modernas de alta tecnología para la transformación de la energía primaria en fuentes de energía, puede convertirse en una de las direcciones clave de la optimización de costos de los productores agroindustriales y agrícolas; Esto se confirma por la práctica y las estadísticas obtenidas en los estudios del sector agroindustrial de la Unión Europea, Asia, Eurasia y América Latina;• Para el sector agroindustrial ruso, la tarea de reducir costos es particularmente aguda, ya que el nivel de gastos en suministro de energía aumenta constantemente, lo que afecta no solo la rentabilidad de las empresas, sino también su competitividad. Se ha desarrollado un modelo de energía sectorial basado en una combinación de fuentes de energía convencionales y renovables para abordar este problema;La transición a la energía renovable en el sector agroindustrial debe ir acompañada de una auditoría energética y la implementación de sistemas de administración de energía. Esto determinará la combinación racional de los recursos energéticos utilizados para garantizar el funcionamiento normal y el desarrollo sostenible de los productores agroindustriales y agrícolas. ; Данная статья посвящена актуальной проблеме разработки инновационных подходов к энергоресурсосбережению и применению возобновляемых источников энергии с целью сокращения издержек агропромышленных предприятий. Сделан вывод, что перспективные направления достижения устойчивого развития агропромышленных предприятий включают в себя минимизацию издержек, синергический подход к сочетанию природных и экономических ресурсов, поддержание баланса между экономическими, экологическими и социальными факторами, инновационную конкурентоспособность и ориентированность на долгосрочную перспективу. Наосновании изложенных в статье материалов авторы считают необходимым сформулировать основные выводы:• эффективность деятельности хозяйствующих субъектов (в том числе агропромышленных и сельскохозяйственных производителей) зависит от наличия инновационных подходов к управлению ими. В настоящее время инновационные технологии следует считать не только источником получения конкурентных преимуществ, но и инструментом, позволяющим снизить уровень издержек в производственных, логистических, маркетинговых и прочих бизнес-процессах;• возобновляемая энергетика, которая основана на современных наукоемких технологиях преобразования первичной энергии в энергоресурсы, может стать одним из ключевых направлений оптимизации издержек агропромышленных и сельскохозяйственных производителей, это подтверждает практика и статистика, полученная в ходе исследований агропромышленного сектора стран Европейского Союза, Азии, Евразии, Латинской Америки;• для российского агропромышленного сектора задача снижения издержек стоит особенно остро, поскольку уровень расходов на энергоснабжение неуклонно возрастает, что влияет не только на доходность бизнеса, но и на его конкурентоспособность. Для решения этой проблемы разработана отраслевая энергетическая модель, основанная на сочетании традиционных и возобновляемых источников энергии;• переход на возобновляемую энергетику в агропромышленном секторе должен сопровождаться энергетическим аудитом и внедрением систем энергоменеджмента. Это позволит определить рациональное сочетание энергоносителей, используемых для обеспечения нормального функционирования и устойчивого развития агропромышленных и сельскохозяйственных производителей.

The article analyzes international practices in ensuring economic security, considering the experiences of the European Union and the United States in this area, as well as suggests recommendations for improving economic security in Russia. ; peer-reviewed