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20260911 145000 UTC
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[00:00:00] the tree spent in the water to acquire its unique
[00:00:03] properties. We can, of course, boast a little about our collection of
[00:00:07] bog oak, because we have
[00:00:10] 286 samples, the oldest sample
[00:00:13] that we have at the moment in the xylotheque is
[00:00:17] a sample of bog oak aged 10,500
[00:00:20] years. This is actually this
[00:00:24] sample, well, if you look at it,
[00:00:27] touch it, it's very hard.
[00:00:30] and it even reminds you of plastic, but in fact, it's a transitional
[00:00:34] state of wood into coal. The artist
[00:00:37] worked on this canvas for millennia, his
[00:00:41] palette from chocolate to anthracite, with a noble
[00:00:44] tree that fell into the river as a canvas, when man was just beginning to write history, and
[00:00:48] this canvas has no copies in the world, such drawings are
[00:00:52] rare. This is not just wood, frozen time
[00:00:55] that nature created over centuries. Such a unique
[00:00:58] resource as bog oak is possessed by a few countries in the world,
[00:01:02] Belarus is among them. In Europe, this resource is exhausted,
[00:01:05] in Belarus there are whole underwater oak groves, whose age
[00:01:08] reaches 8 thousand years. In Europe, for
[00:01:12] example, in one locality in
[00:01:16] England, a five-thousand-year-old bog
[00:01:19] oak was extracted about 10 years ago. But
[00:01:23] there was a terrible excitement. And this trunk, then a table was made from it,
[00:01:26] and it was dedicated to the queen. 5.
[00:01:31] 11 meters, you know, for
[00:01:34] us, well, we can make a 20-meter one,
[00:01:38] you know, like theirs, and not
[00:01:42] five thousand years old, but six or seven thousand years old,
[00:01:45] and not 20-30 people, but one team
[00:01:48] can easily do this playful work,
[00:01:52] just playful. The task of the state is not only to preserve this wealth,
[00:01:56] but to involve it in circulation so that it works for the country, so that...
[00:02:00] Belarusian black gold has become not just cheese,
[00:02:03] a national brand. In general, on
[00:02:05] the territory of the Republic of Belarus, according to data from
[00:02:08] 1994, the projected reserves of
[00:02:11] bog oak amounted to more than
[00:02:14] 500,000 cubic meters, of which easily
[00:02:18] accessible ones, located at the bottom of watercourses
[00:02:22] of floodplain lakes, amounted to about 26
[00:02:26] thousand cubic meters. Belarusians have learned to carefully lift,
[00:02:30] preserve, and transform into art with respect for
[00:02:33] every line, the golden Belarusian bottom preserves what
[00:02:36] others do not have, and we are the only ones who know how to listen to
[00:02:40] its silence to make it our
[00:02:43] national voice. This is specifically a family business, the first oak
[00:02:47] that I lifted at 9 years old, that is,
[00:02:50] it turns out we are telling a story not just about bog oak, there's also a whole
[00:02:54] family dynasty here, you could say, my father did a lot
[00:02:58] for its development.
[00:03:01] Bog oak is the heritage of the Republic of Belarus and we need to
[00:03:04] use it, because if another brand is added to all the brands
[00:03:08] of our country, it will be a very great achievement, it's not even a life's
[00:03:12] work, it's life, it's life, it's just
[00:03:15] the way it is.
[00:08:27] Hello, this is Belarusian radio and TV channel
[00:08:30] Belarus24, our traditional analytical project, Topical Microphone.
[00:08:34] With you are the host Dmitry Voranyuk, my co-host Elena Shvaiko, and
[00:08:38] today our studio guest is Nikolai Leontyevich Myslivets, Director of the Institute of
[00:08:41] Sociology, Republic of Belarus.
[00:09:43] a relatively wide range of questions, why did we
[00:09:46] do this? Sociology always acts as one of
[00:09:50] the very serious, significant ways of assessing those
[00:09:54] processes that happen to each of us,
[00:09:57] assessing those changes that occur in
[00:10:00] the life of our society. Such
[00:10:03] studies allow us to see
[00:10:07] which directions
[00:10:09] of our society's life, which directions
[00:10:12] of state policy are successfully implemented,
[00:10:16] meet the interests and needs of people, where there are
[00:10:20] certain issues that should be brought into the focus
[00:10:23] of attention of the relevant
[00:10:48] research, we very carefully approached
[00:10:52] the formation of our toolkit. The
[00:10:55] toolkit, in this case, was a questionnaire, we
[00:10:58] offered this...