sergei rakhmanov, member of the council of elders under the council of the republic of the national assemblyorresponding member of the national academy of sciences of belarus, doctor of chemical sciences, professor, honored scientist of belarus, born in 1952 in krasnodar, russia, graduated from the belarusian state university, author of more than thirty inventions and 200 scientific papers, rose from the head of the laboratory. bssr, council of ministers of belarus. sergei kimovich, where is the union state in the global race today? of course, the union state is among the leaders. the point is that such regional structures are now being formed, not even individual countries, but countries that are united into some. values, therefore, of course, the union state is now gaining strength, in conditions when, as you rightly said , there is a certain global transformation with increased conflict, it is this integration that is of particular importance for the life of not only russia and belarus, but also for the life of all countries in the post-soviet space and even other countries that are adjac