support system has been developed, pensions are growing, the country is implementing a national strategy of active longevity. let’s ask the head of the main department of the ministryf labor and social protection of belarus, ekaterina koleda, how belarusian pensioners live, relax and work. ekaterina, hello, hello. so, if you think about it, in your opinion, what is the average portrait of a belarusian pensioner? well, if we are talking about a pensioner. in the republic of belarus, yes, we understand that today these are women who have reached 58 years old, well, as a rule, yes, and men 63 years old, there are more than 2 million such citizens in our country, but women from of them, and the overwhelming majority is 70 %, so if we say, we are a portrait, we understand, yes, this is a woman’s face, and if we talk about age, then the majority of our pensioners today are between the ages of 65 and 75, there are about a million of them, well of course, and a belarusian pensioner is a person, an active person, a person with an active civic position, a person with an active position in the family, today a person who has reached retirement age can freely realize himself in