In early February, Minsk hosted a number of events dedicated to the centenary of Belarusian academic science. Its history dates back to January 1922 - in those days the Institute of Belarusian Culture was founded, on the basis of which the Academy of Sciences of Belarus was subsequently established. One of the solemn events was the meeting of the scientific community at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. State Secretary of the Union State Dmitry Mezentsev made a keynote speech there. Here are excerpts from his speech.
Today, under these vaults, a very informative and capacious report was made by the Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences, dedicated to the development of national science, the development of scientific and research schools on the territory of Belarus, the Secretary of State emphasized from the rostrum. - I would like to note the decision that Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko made, declaring the current year 2022 the Year of Historical Memory... For all those in Belarus who are connected with the programs of the Union State, with the practice of our bilateral cooperation, it is important to fill the Year of Historical Memory with concrete steps, which will allow us to take a much more substantive and deep look at these hundred years of national Belarusian academic science, and at our history, and at those 250 years that are being celebrated this year.
Then the Belarusian people, the people of Little Russia, Great Russia became united on the basis of European administrative documents, and when a single history began to form much more tightly, and all people living on the territory of historical Russia, without exception, began to fit new pages that help us today to be proud of a single history - a common history of Belarusian academic science, the successes of Russian scientists and researchers who today operate in the Commonwealth of Independent States, inheriting schools and traditions, the scale of which we feel today and on the basis of the potential of which national economies and scientific schools operate.
Today, together with you, we are preparing ten new concepts for the programs of the Union State
... Quite recently, in the framework of the Address of the President of the Republic of Belarus to the people and the Parliament, we heard very capacious, principled assessments of the integration, which is seen as a strategy for Belarus. President Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko dismissed any speculation, which is sometimes deliberately thrown into the public opinion of Russia and Belarus, that someone wants to absorb Belarus, someone wants to become a threat to national sovereignty and independence.
Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin clearly defined the Union State as a format, institution and mechanism for the integration of Belarussia, primarily economic. And here, it seems to me, the cooperation that the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus signifies with the National Research Center of Russia "Kurchatov Institute" is that promising set of meaningful, large-scale steps that will determine the involvement of applied and fundamental science in the work on the union program on a unified industrial policy, programs to prevent unjustified competition, in the formation of common approaches in the agro- and agricultural sector.
...We see and obviously know how much the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has done to ensure that the applied component in support of ensuring national economic sustainability and competitiveness is implemented. We see how many developments have been introduced into the real economy. But we also understand that the backlog of Soviet science in carrying out fundamental research is not endless.
We have nothing to hide from each other. Today there is an opportunity to rely on the powerful scientific potential of fundamental research, which in the post-Soviet period, especially after Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin came to the leadership of the country, was further developed. And here the obvious leader is the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute".
We just need to combine each other's success for the sake of a common competitiveness
I remember very well the algorithm of interaction that Vladimir Grigoryevich Gusakov and Mikhail Valentinovich Kovalchuk determined at a joint meeting last year by signing the so-called cooperation road map. So, in order for us to be stronger and more competitive, we do not need to prove to each other that in some areas we are a little better, more successful. We just need to combine this success for the sake of a single competitiveness. And this, we will see, will be the focus of the resolution of the Council of Ministers, on the draft of which we are already working, on the creation of a unified infrastructure for fundamental and applied scientific research in the Union State....I would like to emphasize that today we will demand much more proposals that will form the basis of the programs of the Union State. A lot has already been done. Over the years of the Union Treaty, 49 programs have been implemented for a total of 48 billion Russian rubles. In this regard, we also ask you to look more closely at those proposals that are promising for researchers working under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. We are promising in the cooperation that is obvious and successful today in interaction with Russian partners. And this interaction, taking into account the preservation of the potential of Belarusian science, the preservation of the potential of Russian science, can provide new advantages that increase competitiveness.
...Today, it seems promising to work in the space sector, in the field of materials science, genetics, biotechnology, the development of new medicines, in the agricultural sector. I would also like to note that the work of researchers in the field of virology continues. The Institute of Experimental Medicine in St. Petersburg has almost completed preclinical studies of the so-called kefir probiotic vaccine... Today we got acquainted with the developments of the Institute of Influenza, located in St. Petersburg. These are developments dedicated to very promising areas in the fight against tuberculosis. And the leadership of both institutions confirmed their readiness to cooperate more closely with their Belarusian counterparts.
...I would like to invite Alexander Alexandrovich Kovalenya and his colleagues to talk about a series of books dedicated to our history, but not in the academic format of a publication that we are accustomed to, but in the format of a series of books that, under one cover, could collect contradictory facts that are interpreted differently by different strata of both Russian and Belarusian societies. For example, a conversation about Generalissimo Kosciuszko and Field Marshal Paskevich, who each understood their duty to the state in their own way, published under one cover, could become an occasion for public discussion and open a series of historical books and publications of those research materials that interpret history differently. But we have one history for many centuries, just like the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, we have one, no matter how much anyone wants to teach it.
...We are ready for more interaction, for more conversation, for more meetings with access to substantive steps, including in the publishing sector. Today, together with you, we are preparing 10 new concepts for the programs of the Union State. Today we are talking about the need to expand the potential of the Union State budget, including the inclusion in the program of the Union State of joint work on which the best representatives of Belarusian and Russian science are working.
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