  Phenomena related to the non-perturbative aspects of strong interactions at
the LHC are discussed with emphasis on elastic and inelastic soft and hard
diffraction processes. Predictions for the global characteristics and angular
distributions in proton-proton collisions with elastic and multiparticle final
states are given. Potential for discovery of the novel effects related to the
increasing role of the elastic scattering at the LHC energies and its physical
implications in diffractive and multiparticle production processes are
reviewed.
