Valentin Akudovich -- a well known Belarusian philosopher and literator, professor in Belarusian Collegium speaks about the role of Belarusian village in the formation of a modern Belarusian society and state. In a series of his philosophical essays Code of absence, he analyzes the historical past and present day Belarus in the context of genesis of Belarusian people and state. Issue #2. Belarusian village and country of Belarus.