i came to belarus from moscow, before that i worked at the ministry of foreign affairs in the konovsky department, when the opportunity arose to get to belarus, i actually never thought about it, but what i read, what i saw in films, first of all, the brest fortress, and of course i could not refuse such an offer, i agreed and i don’t regret it a bit, belarus... struck me with its open spaces, people, history, then the way people relate to history, of course, the decision to change the region in within my work, well, in my opinion, it was right, i came to belarus for the first time to my shame, perhaps because before that the sphere of my interests and professional academic, so to speak, it was of course directed to the far east, to the north east asia, so coming to belarus was such a cardinal turn in my destiny, and i knew a lot about the country, especially since my relatives and parents came here, in general, i heard, watched, and read a lot, but probably the most important thing we always talk about they said in russia that it is very clean here, good roads, wonderful products, won