valentin alekseevich remembers the difficult times when he worked in a publishing house before becominget you down in my life, you know, for a long time i didn’t even think that you were a belarusian artist, you don’t have this, you know, this one, well such a note that everything is bad, there is nothing, that is , somehow this contract lifted you up, of course, it was a lucky ticket, above all the local problems, you know, that exist, well, in this cauldron, in this artistic world. well, this may be true, i even remember, here’s our wonderful artist, here’s tovsik, volodya the people ’s artist, he says how good it is, valentin, that you’re independent, so he said, it’s true that this is also important, look, in new york, in new york alone, there are 30 times more artists than artists in the entire post-soviet space, including georgia, the baltic states, moldova, can you imagine how you... need to, i think only artists with american passports, not with belarusian ones with others, and everyone wants to live for their work, not to work somewhere, and everywhere in the world, in europe,