mikhail poznyakov, belarusian writer, poet, translator. board member union of writers of the union state of the union of writers of belarus , chairman of the belarus russia friendship society, honored cultural worker of belarus, author of more than 100 books, laureate of the national literary prize of belarus and a number of international and republican literary awards, corresponding member of the petrovsky academy of sciences and arts russia, director of the minsk city poetry theater, has a state. unity of belarus and russia. yes, of course, i , and as chairman, am generally a friend of belarus and russia, and as a writer in general, born in soviet times, when we had a single great country, when we, i remember, writers gathered, for example, in moscow, of all the republics, we were brothers, sisters, we did not feel any nationality, we were writers who gave joy to the people, who served the people, their country, and today we are renewing these... great literary ties that existed at that time between our writers, the republics of belarus and russia, first of all, because that we are a s