cultural educational center for managing the affairs of the president of the republic of belarus alexander sidorenko, alexander petrovich good morning. already on april 8 , the final will take place, and we wonder how the qualifying round went, maybe something was remembered. share with us. in fact. yes, uh, contest day. uh, the eighth of april is the final stage and it was preceded by a huge preparatory work, including the qualifying round, for which a huge amount of materials were submitted. here are different groups, both from the territory of the republic. the second one is from the territory of the russian federation, and the expert groups had to watch one and a half hundred video materials of choreographic compositions of performances, and only about 90 were selected. therefore, this year we have already tightened the selection, and well, such a terrible word has been toughened. yes, you can't have made it much more difficult, yes, and er, maybe i would like to see it. uh, a huge number of numbers, but we see that every year. and this is the second competition we have already, the level of the