This year Belarus will mark a significant milestone: 30 years have passed since the first All-Belarusian National Assembly was held. In our project "Remembering Delegates of the VNSS" – the word is to direct direct witnesses and creators of history. Delegates from different years recall how it was.

Svetlana Baboshenskova, head of the advertising and management department of the Lyady Cultural Palace, delegate to the Third All-Belarusian National Assembly, 2006:

– Time – an amazing arbiter. It delays events from us chronologically, but opens their semantic essence, allowing one to see the big picture from afar. Returning mentally to the beginning of spring 2006, to the days of the Third All-Belarusian National Assembly, I realize: for our country this was a most important historical milestone, and for me personally – a time of deep internal and professional transformation.

That year was, to some extent, fateful. The day before the forum I worked as secretary of the Lidsky district organization of the Belarusian Republican Union of Youth, daily encountering the aspirations and ideas of the Lidsky youth. Shortly after the assembly, I was entrusted with leading the youth department of the Lidsky district executive committee. The transition from public activity to state service required a fundamentally new level of thinking. And precisely the scale