Sciences, vadim gigin, general director of the national library, head of general knowledge, also a candidate of historical sciences, thats right, yes, and vladimir pertsov, minister of information of the republic of belarus, good evening, thank you very much for coming at the very beginning of the program, let me do something nice today, irina borisovnovichs birthday, congratulations, congratulations, all the best, success, as they say, in your work, etc. And personal life, its a pleasure to work with you, a great professional, thank you for coming to the editors club, thank you for spending this day, including with you, yes , we specifically invited you so that you, so to speak, would share your holiday with us, and so, lets begin, lets begin, the news is sad, well in recent years, as a rule, we have been discussing wars, recently ukraine has somehow pushed it aside, although a special military operation there continues in principle, nothing else has changed, although they say. That R