The modern reality requires every scientific research to aim for novelties and practical results. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko made the statement at the ceremony for awarding certificates of doctors of science and professors to research workers and pedagogues on 7 February.

“Every step in this direction will meet support of the government,” stressed the Belarusian leader.

Alexander Lukashenko praised work of some scientists, including the advanced heart attack treatment research performed by Professor Dmitry Salivonchik of the Gomel State Medical University, the contribution of Assistant Professor Genrikh Milosta of the Grodno State Agrarian University, who has worked out a technology to grow hop in Belarusian conditions. The doctorate thesis on data security written by Professor Timofei Borbotko of the Belarusian State University was mentioned. The head of state said: “Unfortunately, many public and humanitarian researches lack a connection to topical social problems. Our economists, sociologists, and political scientists have failed to come up with a proper evaluation of the unique phenomenon that the modern Belarusian society is”.

“Humanitarians are unable to provide serious scientific support for the ideology and work with the population. Our opponents, primarily those in the West, use more and more advanced political technologies while scientists are unable to work out effective methods to counteract them. Or maybe we just don’t know about these methods. The scientific community still attempts to forget Slavonic roots of the Belarusian nation, to dissolve our past in the history of Poland and Lithuania,” said Alexander Lukashenko.

Yet humanitarians have their own achievements. As an example the President mentioned the doctorate thesis written by Alexander Vabishchev, a department head at the A.S. Pushkin State University of Brest. The thesis highlights the fight of the Belarusians for preserving their own culture when part of Belarus was occupied by Poland in the 1920-1930s. The President also mentioned the work written by Assistant Professor Yelena Surkova of the Belarusian State University about ancient Slavonic foundations of the language of ancestors of the Belarusians.

“Therefore, today I’d like to talk about ways to improve topicality and practical outcome of thesis works. Science should not be treated as a way to bolster self-esteem at the government’s expense,” said the head of state.