our guests are stanislav yuretsky, chairman of the council of young scientists of belarus, and pyotr pikutsky, head of the department of science , innovative activities of the ministry of education of belarus, for a week we will celebrate the day of belarusian science and we would like to to start our conversation today with the way belarusian science is developing today, because the president has repeatedly stressed that we have preserved the foundation. this is the same soviet scientific school, and thanks to this we can boast of our achievement today. where are we going and which way are we going, first. i would like to note that in fact it is such that we are developing on the foundation that our predecessors created. that is, of course, this is soviet science, but in many ways we have already left. forward, of course, it is very important that in in the 1990s, that basis of academic science was preserved, and so i think that the academy of sciences itself was not only preserved, but also strengthened. it received the status of the national academy of sciences of belarus in the late ninet