This work studied the efforts of the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage in Cyprus to explore how effectively the TCCH applies diplomatic relation-building efforts towards cultural heritage management and how this can be used to construct a bridge to a process of sustainable development of social relations and heritage use in Cyprus. The Committee’s efforts demonstrate community heritage diplomacy and civil heritage diplomacy, employed by the two largest communities of the island as they attempt to build relations with each other and other minor communities across the border via various heritage practices, and public heritage diplomacy, which is employed by the authorities of each side via the Committee to influence the public of the other side. The Committee employs these forms of heritage diplomacy via a language of cooperation and by bridging gaps in and crossing borders for collaboration, so as to transfer knowledge, values, and experience, and to build trust with institutions and communities. The significance of the study lies in illustrating that the technical and collaborative successes of the Committee via application of the determined types of diplomacy may be successfully applied for a sustainable approach to build relations and confidence under ideologically and politically strained circumstances in Cyprus.

First volume of the “History of Siberia” addresses the earliest and longest period in the history of mankind – the Stone Age and subsequent Paleometal Age. Th ree sections of the volume describe the emergence and development of cultural traditions in the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age in Siberia, focusing on interdisciplinary research into archaeological complexes, their chronology and periodization, clarifi cation of time and methods of settlement, and reconstruction of economic activities among prehistoric communities. Development of Neolithic cultural processes, emergence of various economic structures and productive forms of economy in the Asian part of Russia are discussed. It has been observed that transition from the appropriating to producing economies among the carriers of ancient cultures occurred at diff erent times. Specifi c nature of uneven development of cultural and historical processes in the Bronze Age is presented in the boundaries of large geographical regions. Individual chapters discuss paleoeconomies, social structures, and spiritual culture of the ancient population which lived in diff erent natural conditions of North Asia. Th is volume is intended for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, local historians, and wide public.

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The main scientific interest of the author is the identification and study of little-known and unpublished choral works by one of the brightest representatives of Russian musical culture of the XX-XXI century Yuri M. Butsko. This article attempts to study the handwritten score of the cantata "Four Old Russian Chants from the Collection" Flower Garden "(Spiritual Poems)", written in 1969, in the early period of the composer's work. The cantata is based on four spiritual verses - examples of the musical and poetic genre, to which the composer has repeatedly addressed both in vocal and instrumental compositions (symphonies, concerts, piano pieces). Special attention is paid to the analysis of the musical language of each part of the cantata: melody, harmony, rhythmic features, principles of orchestration. The interrelation of some fragments of the cantata with the music of the Baroque epoch in the context of the use of musical rhetorical figures is revealed. In the course of the research, it was possible to determine that the work was written according to the author's modal methodology of Yu. M. Butsko – «twelve-note at a distance» – first presented in the same 1969 in the «Polyphonic Concert». In conclusion, the author of the article expresses the hope that the cantata «Four old Russian chants from the collection "Flower garden"» will be published, performed and made available to the public.