Quo vadis

In the course of 28 years, we have gone from a collection published annually or biannually by the International Center for Scientific & Technical Information of the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance to a quarterly scientific Journal indexed and abstracted in the international databases 'Scopus' and 'Compendex'. Time poses new challenges: the journal aims to be included into the Russian Web of Science database and into the Web of Science Core Collection in the future. To these ends, we should continue efforts aimed at improving the quality of articles and essentially widening the share of contributing authors not affiliated with the Journal's founders. Currently, the Editorial Board has no plans to introduce major changes in or expand the range of the key research topics covered.