growing trade turnover and new projects in all areas belarus and russia are intensifying regional cooperation. belarus has a stable position as a leader among the cis countries in the ranking of achievement of sustainable development goals. the resource base is about a million tons. our oil workers discovered a new black flood in the gomel region.

our light industry comes first, we also supply city buses and construction materials, we make joint lifting machines based on chassis, we build roads, social facilities, we participate in clean water pilot project. you and i are record holders in the number of contacts, in the number of joint events; these are important systemic, fundamental programs for business interaction and solving the problem of import substitution, sovereignty, and economic issues.

delivery, after all, this is our pilot project , because they lack trade turnover with the arkhangelsk region, which is still modest, just over $40 million, but sanctions not only stimulate the work of domestic production, but also develop regional ties, so in the twenty-fourth a business mission from the arkhangelsk region is planned to belarus this year, the participants will discuss the development of forests, the opening of joint production of logging equipment, the supply of belarusian buses and even construction. cable cars

, your belarusian entrepreneurs came to me, who are engaged in the construction of transportation systems based on jet technology, these are not cable cars, on an iron rail, and for us this could be a solution to ensure communication between the island territories and the city of arkhangelsk. cooperation with kabardino-balkaria is growing, trade turnover has increased by 60%. belarus supplies household chemicals, light industrial goods and food products. cooperation ties have been established in production. but as an agricultural region of russia, kabardino-balkaria is primarily interested in belarusian experience in agriculture. today belarus is a country that produces very high-quality agricultural machinery, here we literally in the first quarter of twenty-four want to visit joint projects to implement, starting with supplies of agricultural machinery, and then cooperation in assembly, except for industry and agricultural mechanical engineering . one of the most pleasant topics

in tourism development. the belarusian direction is one of the most popular among russians today. a month before the new year, all tickets for trains and high-speed trains were purchased. and today one of the important issues is the opening of new flights and the launch of additional high-speed trains. belarus is the leader among the cis countries in the ranking of achievement of sustainable development goals. such data are contained in the analytical report on the implementation of priorities until 2035. what are the main ones? indicators. despite the change in the geo-economic situation in belarus , last year it was possible to achieve gdp growth of 103.8%. this figure has increased per capita by almost $5.00 over 3 years. in the twentieth year there were 20,000. now, according to preliminary estimates, it will exceed $25,000. but gross external debt relative to gdp, on the contrary, decreased. according to the report, belarus has one of the lowest poverty rates in the world.

means the target for reducing the poverty level of the population to 4% (2035). this year has already been achieved. in general, belarus is included in the group of countries with a high level of human development. we are on the sixtieth line, with a total of 191 states on the ranking list. belarusian oil workers have discovered a new deposit of black gold. where to expect oil replenishment. the promising area is located in the gartsevskoye field, which covers the khonniksky and rechsky areas. to localize an older deposit, discovered here back in the twenties, oil workers carried out comprehensive here the mobots drilled a new well for additional exploration. research confirmed the high potential of a previously discovered deposit and allowed us to find a new one. the resource base of the two facilities is estimated at 1 million tons of hydrocarbons. over the past few years, we have managed to increase the annual volume of excavation to 230,000 m of rock

per year. in the next 2 years , we plan to drill ten more exploratory wells at this field in order to increase the resource base and increase annual volume. belarusian specialists are successfully discovering new reserves of valuable resources; there is enough knowledge and competencies. the arsenal includes the most modern technologies and comprehensive government support. as a result , territories that were previously considered unpromising received new life. jobs are being created and infrastructure is being developed. during the year, the domestic company produced record volumes of natural resources for 28 years, more than 1,870 thousand tons of oil. business results announced. there are more entrepreneurs in belarus every year, what do the numbers say: in our the country has 35,000 small medium-sized businesses, including the result of state support for the private sector of the economy. the development bank makes a significant contribution; over the year, 950 projects were financed

in the amount of over 300 million rubles. the majority are in industry and agriculture. the results impress even us in many respects, such as revenue growth. product. on the eve of the holidays, the development bank summed up the results of supporting small medium-sized businesses and also noted the most active partners. thank you, review prepared by olesya vysotskaya. more news from the economic sphere not only on the website of our tv channel www.belarus24.by. belarusian pediatric

cardiac surgeons are known for their unique operations not only in our country, but also far beyond its borders. it’s hard to imagine that just a couple of decades ago they... themselves learned from foreign colleagues. let’s ask the director of the republican scientific and practical center for pediatric surgery, konstantin drazdovsky, about how domestic pediatric surgery is developing today, and what unique operations are performed by belarusian doctors. hello, konstantin, if sum up the results of last year at the republican scientific and practical center, how many operations were performed? a total of 5,650 operations were performed. and if you look at the dynamics, it’s a lot or a little, because the number itself won’t say much. you know, the figure... remains approximately the same, despite the fact that the birth rate changes from year to year, but the number of patients, children who need help, but remains approximately the same, yeah, what are the most common operations performed at the center , well, we help all children with pediatric

surgical pathologies, we operate on everything congenital defects, development of the heart, the chest and intestines, the white cavity, we provide complete emergency assistance to children in minsk with tummy diseases, appendicitis, hernias, all emergency surgical pathologies. over the past year , about 47,000 children came to us, this is about 130 children a day, we accept, not all of them, of course, stay with us, we often exclude surgical pathology, send to other hospitals or simply go home for treatment, but about 7,500 of them are treated by us and these 7,500 were operated on 5,650, that is, what are the most complex operations? the most difficult ones are , of course, operations on newborns, both on the heart, on the chest, on the abdominal cavity, and most often on premature newborns. in our country, we have a very highly

developed system, or so to speak, a program of in vitro fertilization, and the result of this is a fairly large number of newborns with low body weight and... of course, like in the normal population, they get sick, they are born with vices, naturally we must treat them, if 10-15 years ago, we started treating children with a weight of about 3, 3.5 kg. according to the heart, if we talk about the complexity of the operation, then of course, the operation on the heart

is very complex, it is a high-tech operation, using very serious equipment, but in recent years, and the last is 10 years, we have been doing approximately the same number of operations per year on the heart, this is about 1,100 operations per year, but if in 2012 we performed 700 open operations and about 300-400 endovascular, so-called...

with kyrgyzstan, well, in the direction there, to us, that is, patients come to us

, our team goes to kyrgyzstan, well , in recent years we have had a very serious program with uzbekistan, you probably heard that there was a belarusian-uzbek forum - at the end of last year, i participated in it, before that we , our team, not only ours, but adult cardiac surgeons, oncologists, pediatric oncohematologists, were in uzbekistan, and we... were not in tashkent, in regional centers, our team, we were in fergana and, of course, there is a very large number of children, including those born with heart defects, we performed eight operations, we performed some operations in this center for the first time, well, knowing ourselves, we ourselves learned 15-20 years ago from our more experienced colleagues who came to us at our base...

uzbekistan, we understand that some the material base there is insufficient, but we come and show that it is possible to treat seriously ill children under these conditions. in particular , you can periodically read the news and hear that unique operations are being carried out with specialists from europe. does this mean that, despite all the political turbulence, medicine outside of politics? well , medicine should always be in a non-political context, but i would like to, yes, but unfortunately this is a utopia, because anyway we are all people, we are in society, and

it is impossible to be absolutely apolitical anywhere, neither here nor in europe , nor in other countries, but the medical community , naturally, it is quite friendly, you cannot say that, for example, you have reached some heights, you are already operating at a very high level, that’s it, you have nothing to learn, this is a lie in any field of medicine , always every year, every month new technologies and new operations appear.

scientific and practical center for pediatric surgery. ddovsky, director of the republican let's return to the studio in a few minutes. this is the events program for belarus 24. we continue. clinical trials of the domestic vaccine against covid-19 have been completed in belarus. when the drug arrives at the medical facility, we’ll ask our columnist vladislav bondar. they plan to provide the population with the drug by september of this year . about 2 million doses have been created, people from the group will be vaccinated first risk and doctors. the project was implemented by the ministry of health in accordance with the instructions of the president and was developed for 2 and a half years. eight institutions took part. the third phase of the clinical trial was successful. and our vaccine, in any case, i won’t get ahead of ourselves, but it is no less effective

than the vaccines that were used in our republic and are used outside the republic of belarus. this has been proven not only scientifically, but also experimentally. gomel state medical university, he recruited volunteers, and the work this has actually been carried out since the fall of this year. they are not going to stop there; in the future, taking into account technology, they will consider options for creating belarusian drugs against other infections in accordance with the national vaccination calendar for epidemiological indications. the academy of sciences of belarus is actively working on human dna research. the scientists have already arrived. one of the areas where genomic technologies are successfully used is medicine. medical genetics helps solve a number of problems from diagnosis to creation of medicines. scientists of the academy of sciences pay special attention to cancer of the cardiovascular system and how to choose the right treatment to combat them. in practical medicine, this allows you

to select the dose and the desired active substance with mathematical precision, while avoiding side effects. well, all of them. awarded the union state prize. what did the russian colleagues work together on, the essence of the method? if the biological materials of the criminal collected at the crime scene are not in the database, identifying him is very difficult. but with the help of dna, it is possible to determine the probable age with an error of 3 to 5 years, eye color, hair color and even ethnic origin. based on the results of these

studies, methods, software and information systems were developed, which were subsequently implemented. here in the scientific and practical center of the state committee for forensic expertise and, accordingly , at the moment they are already working, that is , those tested by criminologists are used in some real cases in the investigation of real criminal cases. research is ongoing, today, scientists can identify over 100 variations of different genes and more than thirty diseases. currently they work in the sports field, studying the effect of various substances on the body of athletes. minsk will host the regional winter festival beresteyskie sleigh. what kind of tradition is this? the beresteysky sleigh festival was held for the first time in brest in 2022. the event aroused great interest among residents and guests of the regional center. they decided to make it traditional and hold it in different parts of the region. relay last january accepted baranovich. now ancient pinsk is preparing to surprise guests of a large-scale winter festival. the festival will take place on

january 20. organizers expect at least 200,000 people to attend. one of the highlights of the holiday will be the creation of a book of records for berestey sleighs. at our third festival we will create a book of records for berestian dormouse. more than 200 pairs of santa clauses will be created. accordingly , it will be a whole procession, it will be such a beautiful, spectacular, colorful procession along the main street. it will be very interesting walrus swim. we plan that the length of shopping. the rows will be about 500 m, about a thousand seats will be organized, the program provides for competitions, promotions, and tastings. the event will be a parade of enterprises, the participants, about thirty of them, will present themselves as colorfully and effectively as possible with sound and musical accompaniment.

creative groups of performers from pinsk and brest regions are responsible for the cultural part, more than 1,200 artists in total. among the guests of the festival, the variety theater from pinze will complete holiday beristi sleigh 2024 fireworks and concert. thank you, the review was prepared by vladislav bondar. traditionally, winter is a time of holidays and warm meetings. in addition to new year and christmas, it is worth remembering the tradition of celebrating kolyat. initially, it was a pagan holiday dedicated to the beginning of the new year, but with the adoption of christianity it began to be closely intertwined with christmas, how our ancestors celebrated the holiday, what kind of modern carols are they? let's ask dmitry skvarchevsky, candidate of historical sciences. hello dmitry. hello! i want you today ask about carol traditions, a little bit. let's dive into history, what kind of holiday is this and how has it survived to this day? carols are, perhaps, one of the most interesting, most meaningful holidays in our tradition.

in general, this is not even one holiday, these are several holidays that are combined into a single cycle, it used to be celebrated in conjunction with the day of winter, usually stretched over 12 days of evenings, so they were called holy evenings, or crooked evenings, and as you correctly noted, he combines himself like this old mythological traditions, and... both some elements and others, that is, they do not conflict, on the contrary, they organically complement each other, their main holidays are three in this cycle, the so-called three carols or three kutia, each of them also has its own name, well, we will probably be more interested in the generous evening, depending on the calendar style, it is celebrated either from december 31 to january 1, that is, in fact... our new year, or the so -called old new year from 13 to 14 january, why am i highlighting this day, because it was on this day that carolers were most likely to attend,

they traditionally study rituals, again there are masks, if we talk about carol traditions, but very often they also pay attention to the lyrics , that’s the meaning behind it, there are no carols without songs, according to its song tradition, carols are also perhaps one of the most... bright holidays, that is , there are a lot of songs with very different texts, very different plots, in fact with the most different genres, but they have meaning, of course, each of them has its own meaning, the first, well , i would conditionally call it the first - this is a cosmogonic meaning, that is, about the creation of the world, because carols at their core, if we take this is exactly the old mythology, this is the birthday of our world, yes, that is, the day of its appearance, renewal, so in carol songs you can often find these motives of creation, renewal, besides this, of course, very... such a large layer of songs, this is already what the carolers themselves sang, so called great songs that were dedicated to the owner, his wife, his children, his family, where

the obligatory elements were wishes for goodness, prosperity, health, this is what has always worried people at all times and what is still relevant today, therefore in this regard , of course, carol songs do not lose their meaning, do not lose their relevance, and this, in my opinion, is one of the reasons why carols, although such an archaic holiday, have survived very well to this day. because they tell us the main thing, that everyone is interested in what everyone needs and what is relevant to everyone. well, in what form have carols survived to this day? have they changed much? the question here, of course, is ambiguous. on the one hand, yes, carols, like any holiday, any tradition, are not some kind of frozen museum phenomenon, an exhibit. kolyada, as a living tradition, is influenced from outside, and therefore changes from within. new carol characters appear, new carol heroes take into account. there are realities of time, but nevertheless, in its essence, the holiday remains the same as was, that is, this is again a period of renewal of the world, when let’s say, we are programming our next year so that everything will be fine,

so that everything will be prosperous, yes, to get a good share, in fact, the conjurers, who are they, these are guests from far away lands, sent from god right under heaven, they bring a share to people, so a person’s task is to accept the magicians, give them gifts, and in return receive a happy share for the next year, that is, this is the essence, it does not change. different external forms change, but nevertheless the essential points remain unchanged, but of course, yes, many traditions that we already know from ethnographic records, we unfortunately cannot see today, but on the other hand, we also know a number of regions where you can still see rituals, traditions, carols in that form , as they were in the same way even in the 19th centuries for the regions where he will go, in order to immerse himself 100% in this tradition of exactly those... to 100%, this is a difficult question, to 100%, but with some percentages, yes we can say, in my subjective opinion, this is what i saw myself,

where i’ve been, so i can say so, more... competently about it, it’s very interesting, that’s exactly the generous one, a wise evening from january 13 to 14 in the village of osova and the neighboring village of rok, aligorsky district, an original tradition, not repeated, but with with their masks , that’s the most interesting thing - this is a grandfather’s mask, made of birch bark, like a birch bark helmet, there is no such mask anywhere else, plus in general there is a very wide range of heroes, this is a horse, this is a busel and of course a goat, but there is a goat also unusual, usually it’s... for example, real horns, but that’s exactly with so with such a goat and carolers go from where the elements of a once living goat are combined , house to house, that is, it is very interesting, but this is of course not the only, not the only place where you can see such old archaic carol traditions here, again interesting for the village new things in the berezensky region

, yes... such a holiday is celebrated - to pull a carol on the dubo on january 21, that’s also why the carol cycle is interesting everywhere, if we take the orthodox regions there according to the julian calendar, then everywhere the carols end already on january 18-19, then there’s a little more continues until the 22nd and 21st there are special farewells of the carol, here is a drawn carol on an oak tree, you can also see this today, a rather interesting ritual, when the carol is embodied by a sheaf of wheat, decorated to resemble a person...

also needs to be saved, there is also a belarusian list of intangible cultural heritage, where new traditions are introduced every year and there are already quite a lot of carol traditions, the same carol kings, they are in unesco and naturally on the belarusian list, there is also the ritual of shaking a carol at the oak tree, i mentioned it, it is also included, a generous one from the villages of ossova and rok, saligorsk district, are also already on this list, zhanit, zhanit botyareshki are on this list, that is, we see that the brightest, most original, authentic, but already there. but there are also other traditions that i did not name, there is an interesting children’s rite of the kura carol of the klichev region, it is also included in this list, that is, this is the specificity of children’s caroling, this is also something that, for example, has not been preserved in other regions, was the yunetsk belarusian tradition of straw weaving has been included, for carols our obligatory the element was a straw spider, such a voluminous geometric decoration, and spiders are a tradition of weaving spiders from straw, this is

part of, this is more... the general tradition of straw weaving, it is also included in the list, it turns out that now unesco, in belarus too, separately, by the way , the tradition of straw spiders in the bykhovsky district, this very region, is also included in the list of mysterious cultural heritage, in the berezovsky district there is also such an interesting tradition of making such a bird from wood chips, an amulet, which was also hung in the house on carols as a symbol of happiness and goodness. thank you very much, dmitry skvarchevsky, candidate of historical sciences, answered the program questions. results and analysis of the main events of this week in the atn information and analytical program. main broadcast. all projects of our tv channel are available on the website www.belarus24.bi, as well as on social networks. i say goodbye to you. all the best.