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00:00:00the tree spent in the water to acquire its unique
00:00:03properties. We can, of course, boast a little about our collection of
00:00:07bog oak, because we have
00:00:10286 samples, the oldest sample
00:00:13that we have at the moment in the xylotheque is
00:00:17a sample of bog oak aged 10,500
00:00:20years. This is actually this
00:00:24sample, well, if you look at it,
00:00:27touch it, it's very hard.
00:00:30and it even reminds you of plastic, but in fact, it's a transitional
00:00:34state of wood into coal. The artist
00:00:37worked on this canvas for millennia, his
00:00:41palette from chocolate to anthracite, with a noble
00:00:44tree that fell into the river as a canvas, when man was just beginning to write history, and
00:00:48this canvas has no copies in the world, such drawings are
00:00:52rare. This is not just wood, frozen time
00:00:55that nature created over centuries. Such a unique
00:00:58resource as bog oak is possessed by a few countries in the world,
00:01:02Belarus is among them. In Europe, this resource is exhausted,
00:01:05in Belarus there are whole underwater oak groves, whose age
00:01:08reaches 8 thousand years. In Europe, for
00:01:12example, in one locality in
00:01:16England, a five-thousand-year-old bog
00:01:19oak was extracted about 10 years ago. But
00:01:23there was a terrible excitement. And this trunk, then a table was made from it,
00:01:26and it was dedicated to the queen. 5.
00:01:3111 meters, you know, for
00:01:34us, well, we can make a 20-meter one,
00:01:38you know, like theirs, and not
00:01:42five thousand years old, but six or seven thousand years old,
00:01:45and not 20-30 people, but one team
00:01:48can easily do this playful work,
00:01:52just playful. The task of the state is not only to preserve this wealth,
00:01:56but to involve it in circulation so that it works for the country, so that...
00:02:00Belarusian black gold has become not just cheese,
00:02:03a national brand. In general, on
00:02:05the territory of the Republic of Belarus, according to data from
00:02:081994, the projected reserves of
00:02:11bog oak amounted to more than
00:02:14500,000 cubic meters, of which easily
00:02:18accessible ones, located at the bottom of watercourses
00:02:22of floodplain lakes, amounted to about 26
00:02:26thousand cubic meters. Belarusians have learned to carefully lift,
00:02:30preserve, and transform into art with respect for
00:02:33every line, the golden Belarusian bottom preserves what
00:02:36others do not have, and we are the only ones who know how to listen to
00:02:40its silence to make it our
00:02:43national voice. This is specifically a family business, the first oak
00:02:47that I lifted at 9 years old, that is,
00:02:50it turns out we are telling a story not just about bog oak, there's also a whole
00:02:54family dynasty here, you could say, my father did a lot
00:02:58for its development.
00:03:01Bog oak is the heritage of the Republic of Belarus and we need to
00:03:04use it, because if another brand is added to all the brands
00:03:08of our country, it will be a very great achievement, it's not even a life's
00:03:12work, it's life, it's life, it's just
00:03:15the way it is.
00:08:27Hello, this is Belarusian radio and TV channel
00:08:30Belarus24, our traditional analytical project, Topical Microphone.
00:08:34With you are the host Dmitry Voranyuk, my co-host Elena Shvaiko, and
00:08:38today our studio guest is Nikolai Leontyevich Myslivets, Director of the Institute of
00:08:41Sociology, Republic of Belarus.
00:09:43a relatively wide range of questions, why did we
00:09:46do this? Sociology always acts as one of
00:09:50the very serious, significant ways of assessing those
00:09:54processes that happen to each of us,
00:09:57assessing those changes that occur in
00:10:00the life of our society. Such
00:10:03studies allow us to see
00:10:07which directions
00:10:09of our society's life, which directions
00:10:12of state policy are successfully implemented,
00:10:16meet the interests and needs of people, where there are
00:10:20certain issues that should be brought into the focus
00:10:23of attention of the relevant
00:10:48research, we very carefully approached
00:10:52the formation of our toolkit. The
00:10:55toolkit, in this case, was a questionnaire, we
00:10:58offered this...