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[00:00:30] How difficult it is, it's not easy to extract
[00:00:34] truly important information from the information flow, it's not
[00:00:38] easy to delve deeper, and it's even harder to ask honest
[00:00:41] questions and soberly look at ourselves, but
[00:00:44] this is the only right path if you want to have your own
[00:00:47] opinion, and not settle for what's imposed. My name
[00:00:51] is Alena Syrova, and personally, I see
[00:00:54] it this way.
[00:01:03] Offhand, what impressed me from the news, well,
[00:01:06] let's say, over the last few days, regarding the domestic
[00:01:09] agenda, the prospect for negligent workers
[00:01:12] of the agricultural sector, announced at the selector and
[00:01:15] articulated by the president several more times after:
[00:01:19] "Go, guys, work. If there's no work, well, we'll send
[00:01:22] you to the army for re-education, they'll get acquainted with
[00:01:25] mosquitoes, midges, gnats, various creatures in the forest, then they'll understand that
[00:01:29] working in the field... is really bad." Also,
[00:01:32] I dare say, you might have been surprised by the story with the foreign
[00:01:35] taxi driver who offended a Belarusian woman, well, at least that's how it was
[00:01:39] presented to the public. At one point,
[00:01:43] the driver starts playing music very loudly, so loudly that
[00:01:47] you're like in some club, and
[00:01:50] I asked, I said, please turn it down, to which
[00:01:54] he replied to Yulia and me, "Shut your mouth."
[00:01:57] I was the first one. I didn't hear it, I
[00:02:01] said, "What did he say?" He says, "Shut your mouth." he said. I, my
[00:02:05] eyes were just like this, bulging out, I was like, "What do you mean? How do
[00:02:08] you talk to passengers? You're at work."
[00:02:11] To which he tells me, "I'm not working."
[00:02:14] In fact, he speaks Russian very badly, this is not
[00:02:17] Russian. At
[00:02:21] this moment, I say, "I'm going to film everything on
[00:02:24] my phone." because such communication
[00:02:27] is unacceptable. He... started showing us
[00:02:31] f, uh, saying some
[00:02:34] super bad words, at some point,
[00:02:37] he started waving his hands like this at my
[00:02:40] phone, the phone falls
[00:02:43] and falls on my knees, I bow
[00:02:46] my head like this and say, "Yulia, film it!" And he just takes me, just so you
[00:02:50] understand, from the front - he hits me in the
[00:02:53] face. I just, well, after this
[00:02:56] situation, I don't even know how one can take a taxi.
[00:03:01] And I have some kind of panic fear
[00:03:04] of everyone now. The story has already received
[00:03:08] a continuation and a preliminary legal assessment. More on that
[00:03:11] in a few moments. Now about what unites non-youth in
[00:03:15] uniform and the incident with the foreigner.
[00:03:18] This is the reaction and the parallel reality of these messages in
[00:03:22] social networks. With the migrant, it turned out very multi-faceted.
[00:03:25] Firstly, mainly, I am not
[00:03:28] justifying and... not defending anyone, but the Minister
[00:03:32] of Internal Affairs, commenting on the situation, said the following:
[00:03:35] "Indeed, the foreign citizen who came to
[00:03:39] our country is a student of one of
[00:03:42] the universities, a guy who wants
[00:03:46] to study, wants to earn a penny, and
[00:03:49] naturally, works part-time as a taxi driver. They started investigating,
[00:03:53] the guy immediately repented, says, 'The girl
[00:03:56] immediately introduced herself as a blogger. It turns out that all
[00:03:59] the way they were driving, they were filming this guy on a mobile
[00:04:02] phone.' They don't know Russian very well,
[00:04:05] he asked: 'Put away the phone,' he said, asked several times,
[00:04:09] but then, it seems, his nerves gave way,
[00:04:12] he hit with his hand, but wanted to knock out the phone.
[00:04:16] As a result, she filed a report,
[00:04:20] yes, we will certainly investigate his actions,
[00:04:23] but as soon as this appeared on the Internet, all citizens of the Republic
[00:04:27] of Belarus, and probably not only the Republic of Belarus, those who read it, in
[00:04:31] the comments write, 'Deport him,
[00:04:34] imprison him,' and so on. Every situation
[00:04:37] needs to be understood." It's strange that Belarusians, who
[00:04:41] pride themselves worldwide on their kindness and tact,
[00:04:44] and law-abiding nature, decided to film someone without
[00:04:48] consent. Listen, you wouldn't be delighted either,
[00:04:52] right? We generally aren't supposed to do
[00:04:54] that, regardless of whether it's a guest or a compatriot, and yes,
[00:04:58] hitting someone in Belarus is also forbidden. Hence, the second
[00:05:02] disturbing trend: before calling
[00:05:06] 102, right there on the spot, the girls had
[00:05:09] the desire to film and then post it. Well,
[00:05:12] probably, in order to register an offense, a video recorder
[00:05:16] can do that, if the taxi driver is in the registry, of course, he
[00:05:20] should be. Otherwise, why not
[00:05:23] stir up a fuss, especially since the police will react to everything,
[00:05:27] right? They're even online, nearby. Do you have some kind of system,
[00:05:31] or do you react to absolutely everything? We react to everything,
[00:05:34] absolutely everything, and not only what is related to the internal affairs bodies
[00:05:38] or internal troops, because our main task is to help
[00:05:42] people. And I want to tell you that there is very strong interaction and support from
[00:05:45] the investigative committee. But is this good, is it
[00:05:49] right, are we spoiling society? In the comments,
[00:05:52] they are already demanding a spectacle and video with a recorder, forgetting that there
[00:05:56] are legal norms. That's how social networks blur
[00:05:59] boundaries. If before such conflicts could be provoked by opinion
[00:06:03] leaders, millionaire bloggers, then now any Joe Schmo from a fake
[00:06:06] account can add fuel to the fire. And boom. Yes,
[00:06:09] they will find him, but one must not underestimate the consequences.
[00:06:17] Social networks today are a digital showcase, a place where people post
[00:06:21] selfies, film reviews, lifestyle, share opinions, originally
[00:06:24] created for information exchange, reliable connection and communication,
[00:06:28] the internet has become not only a useful tool for humanity, but
[00:06:31] a dangerous weapon. Often one click, a random post or a angry
[00:06:35] comment from an ordinary user blows up the real world more
[00:06:39] than a combat projectile. We
[00:06:41] should give our Filipino maids one day off a
[00:06:45] week and not take their passports, and if they decide
[00:06:48] to leave the country, I am outraged. In
[00:06:51] 2018, a blogger from Kuwait criticized a new law
[00:06:55] giving domestic workers more rights. The post caused a colossal
[00:06:58] international scandal, provoking a mass evacuation of Filipinos.
[00:07:02] Major brands terminated contracts with the influencer, advertisers left,
[00:07:06] and this is not the first and far from the last time that online publications
[00:07:09] led to serious consequences. Once,
[00:07:12] airline baggage handlers damaged a musician's guitar during a flight, and
[00:07:16] didn't even pay compensation. The artist then posted
[00:07:20] a video online, where he mocked
[00:07:21] this situation.
[00:07:27] The result: the company lost about $180 million
[00:07:31] in just a few days. Obviously, such results would not have occurred if
[00:07:35] the post hadn't gained traction, and it gained traction for several
[00:07:38] reasons. This is how algorithms work, a potentially popular publication
[00:07:41] is evaluated immediately, and negative messages are always trending, and
[00:07:45] they even attract those who have never been interested in the topic. This
[00:07:49] phenomenon is explainable from a psychological point of view: we only hear one
[00:07:52] source that expressed a certain emotion, we get emotionally infected, and
[00:07:56] somehow get involved. The group, well, it seems, does not
[00:08:00] make mistakes, although this is certainly not true, it is just an illusion. If there is a lot of this information,
[00:08:03] if they talk about it, then like a snowball, it actually latches on, even
[00:08:07] if I don't understand this topic, and other people react, it's also important for me to say
[00:08:11] something, that I don't want to be... different from others, this is also a quite good
[00:08:14] safety mechanism, but if in the airline case there was at least
[00:08:18] a fair subtext, there are not uncommon cases when an unfounded and
[00:08:22] untrue post cost not only reputation loss, but waves of violence and
[00:08:26] riots.
[00:08:29] In 2024, in Great Britain, there was a knife
[00:08:32] attack on a children's dance studio, where children died, and then someone
[00:08:36] posted a fake post that the attacker was a refugee. A
[00:08:40] wave of anti-immigrant protests immediately swept the country, turning
[00:08:43] into clashes with the police, attacks, but it turned out that
[00:08:46] the crime was committed by a local resident. Behind the mask of a random
[00:08:50] eyewitness or an ordinary citizen increasingly hide professional
[00:08:53] political technologists and bot factories, such special operations from
[00:08:57] the other side of the screen. Social networks and information
[00:09:00] tools are the main way to destabilize
[00:09:04] civil society and bring it into a state, well, if you will,
[00:09:07] of revolutionary frenzy. Then, however,
[00:09:10] sobriety sets in,
[00:09:13] and as a result, society receives
[00:09:16] psychological trauma, which, by the way, the same political
[00:09:20] technologists use for many more
[00:09:24] years. So, such experiments are certainly very
[00:09:27] dangerous and should be rightly recognized as crimes against humanity.
[00:09:30] There are many examples, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, which arose
[00:09:34] in the USA due to one video or the case in Myanmar, where
[00:09:37] interethnic strife was ignited by a post by a local resident. Also,
[00:09:41] the Arab... The wave of color revolutions swept through, partly
[00:09:44] thanks to a well-known messenger. An ordinary user created a page in
[00:09:48] memory of a deceased guy. Over time, the local group turned into the main
[00:09:52] logistical headquarters of the revolution. A smartphone in hand became a remote
[00:09:55] control for anger. Not only the Arab Spring. We can recall
[00:09:59] November 1, 2024, when suddenly
[00:10:02] the same canopy, for example, collapsed
[00:10:05] at the Novi Sad railway station in Serbia. It was just a pretext
[00:10:09] to stir up the youth. It's all aimed at the youth, therefore. All
[00:10:12] the color revolutions, whether it's precisely in the territories
[00:10:16] of the Arab Spring, where they swept almost all of Africa, and even
[00:10:20] the Middle East, or what concerns Serbia, what concerns our Republic
[00:10:24] of Belarus. This is all, first of all, a consequence of the fact that
[00:10:27] they are working to find weak spots, what they can use to hook
[00:10:30] people, and any information drive can be
[00:10:34] used from a minimal to a global
[00:10:36] scale. In a world where everything is digitized, you need to filter not
[00:10:39] only photos, but your own thoughts. The word today is the most expensive
[00:10:43] commodity and the most accessible weapon, because if before, to start
[00:10:47] a conflict, resources were needed, now it's smartphones and viral
[00:10:50] text. So where are the boundaries between reality and something calculated
[00:10:54] by someone? Continuing the topic of reaction, the president's
[00:10:58] message to those, to those, sorry, who do
[00:11:01] not want to perform their work well, is also being discussed.
[00:11:04] Narratives? Yes, it's just that there's a deficit in the army, yes, there's just
[00:11:08] a shortage of personnel in the agricultural sector, all in that vein. Well, the logical question is,
[00:11:12] why the army then, and not just the forest and forestry? There,
[00:11:16] they say, there are even dying species
[00:11:17] of professions.
[00:11:24] But... Those personnel who are in the forest, by the way, can be
[00:11:28] and are, in fact, a reserve for the armed
[00:11:31] forces. Are you on record,
[00:11:35] ready to take up arms if necessary?
[00:11:38] Well, in any case, of course, I am ready, because this is our
[00:11:41] country, our homeland, hunters have always
[00:11:45] been ardent
[00:11:47] defenders
[00:11:49] of their homeland, always went in the first ranks, with weapons, I've had
[00:11:53] them for 20 to 5 years
[00:11:56] of handling, naturally, I know how to handle them, yes, we are
[00:12:00] registered, and territorial defense, in
[00:12:04] its time,
[00:12:07] conducted training with us, well, the training
[00:12:10] of PMC Wagner representatives, yes,
[00:12:14] they taught a lot, because after all, it's, well,
[00:12:18] it's a whole science, yes, so, if God
[00:12:21] forbid something happens, of course, we will go in the first ranks. In any district
[00:12:25] there are some strategic objects, we know the mechanism of action,
[00:12:29] this information was brought to our attention, and if
[00:12:32] you look wider, this is about rational resource
[00:12:36] management, both human, there is no superfluous
[00:12:38] knowledge and competence, and natural, speaking of which, in
[00:12:42] Belarus, the main forest, and the person responsible for it since Thursday
[00:12:46] is new. Now it is Sergey
[00:12:49] Uldinovich, well, he will have to overcome what his
[00:12:52] predecessor could not, partly the elements.
[00:12:55] As it seems to me, well, what I observe, flying
[00:12:59] over Belarus, we don't
[00:13:03] always clear this forest on time. The forest is grown
[00:13:06] precisely so that after 80-90 or 60
[00:13:10] years it can be cut down and put to use for
[00:13:13] building housing or furniture, for example, this is very
[00:13:17] important. I have made remarks many times about
[00:13:20] wind-felled and wind-broken
[00:13:23] problems. So, the new minister said that he will
[00:13:27] work on processing, including for
[00:13:30] export, goods with high added value, but
[00:13:34] for now, we still have firewood,
[00:13:37] we hardly consume that much, likely not, yes, today
[00:13:41] this amount of this firewood
[00:13:44] is not in demand, so the order, the priority, so that
[00:13:48] it doesn't spoil in storage, that which was harvested earlier, as of
[00:13:52] today, yes, given that the amount of
[00:13:56] energy sources from local types of fuel is increasing, this is burning wood chips, this is
[00:13:59] pellets, the remnants are no longer increasing, at least they are slowly
[00:14:03] but surely decreasing. This
[00:14:07] problem, of course, still needs to be worked on, well, it must be understood, this
[00:14:10] is not a one-day task. Out of curiosity, I monitored
[00:14:14] the situation with firewood, and you know, some places are
[00:14:17] even ready to sell last year's firewood, but we'll talk about
[00:14:21] that in October, November, when by tradition the masses will remember.
[00:15:25] We know how to do things qualitatively and deliciously, we
[00:15:28] have everything to feel confident in tomorrow,
[00:15:32] but it's not like that everywhere. Global hunger, a cliché, we
[00:15:35] might even feel it's imposed
[00:15:37] and a fabricated bogeyman, but it's worth looking a little further
[00:15:41] than our continent. And if we analyze the events of recent years
[00:15:45] and months, then
[00:15:56] over the last 5-7 years, the global agri-food
[00:15:59] system has faced a large number
[00:16:03] of challenges and shocks, which have led to the fact that today,
[00:16:07] 266 million
[00:16:09] people in 47 countries worldwide are in a situation
[00:16:13] of acute hunger, while global
[00:16:16] food security mechanisms have not
[00:16:19] worked and have not been able to solve
[00:16:22] the growing food problem. The international community
[00:16:26] still, in solving food security
[00:16:29] problems, relies on financing emergency
[00:16:33] food aid, which, by the way, is
[00:16:36] decreasing. In the period from 2022 to
[00:16:40] 2025, the volume
[00:16:42] of financing for food aid worldwide
[00:16:46] decreased by 60%.
[00:16:57] The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz made it almost
[00:17:00] impossible to supply
[00:17:03] fertilizers and energy carriers
[00:17:06] through this channel.
[00:17:13] Asia and the European Union. For some
[00:17:16] goods, dependence on this supply channel
[00:17:20] was 50% or more. Moreover,
[00:17:24] the Hormuz crisis happened precisely during
[00:17:27] a crucial period for global agriculture, when
[00:17:30] the sowing campaign was beginning. And in
[00:17:34] this regard, the increased cost of fertilizers,
[00:17:37] lubricants, led to an increase in
[00:17:40] the costs for agricultural producers. I will give you such data from international
[00:17:44] statistics: in April 2026,
[00:17:47] the price of carbamide on the world
[00:17:50] market was twice as high
[00:17:54] as in April 2025,
[00:17:56] and the price of triple superphosphate
[00:18:00] increased by 30%.
[00:18:03] Of course, prices for food also reacted to such an increase
[00:18:06] in fertilizer and energy prices. According to
[00:18:09] data from the Food and Agriculture
[00:18:12] Organization (FAO), the food price
[00:18:15] index for the first half of 2026
[00:18:19] rose by six
[00:18:22] percentage points. This is a lot. First
[00:18:25] of all, such a rise occurred due to prices for
[00:18:29] meat, grain and vegetable oil.
[00:18:32] I note that the price index for vegetable oil increased by
[00:18:36] 23%. Farmers
[00:18:39] in the European Union also experienced
[00:18:42] an unprecedented increase in costs,
[00:18:45] which accordingly reduced the competitiveness of their
[00:18:48] products and is reducing their production potential, as evidenced
[00:18:52] by statistical
[00:18:53] data.
[00:19:02] In the current situation, for the Republic of Belarus,
[00:19:06] it is important not only to gain an advantage from
[00:19:09] the favorable market conditions of the world food market, when
[00:19:13] prices are rising and demand for our products is growing,
[00:19:16] but also to occupy niches that
[00:19:20] are being freed up by countries that have suffered from
[00:19:23] the Middle East conflict. Our
[00:19:26] Belarusian model of ensuring food
[00:19:29] security, our doctrine, it
[00:19:32] is built primarily on a high level
[00:19:35] of self-sufficiency in basic types of agricultural
[00:19:39] products, raw materials, and food. This
[00:19:42] allows us, regardless of any changes in external
[00:19:45] market conditions, to guarantee food
[00:19:48] security for our population
[00:19:50] and to carry out stable export supplies
[00:19:53] of food to the world market. According to the World
[00:19:57] Food and Agriculture Organization, in the Republic
[00:20:00] of Belarus, the normative diet of the
[00:20:03] population is provided by its own resources at 100%.
[00:20:07] 40% and moreover, for
[00:20:10] 99% of the republic's population,
[00:20:13] a healthy diet is available. Of course, in the agricultural sector, there are not many
[00:20:17] labor resources, and the whole world is moving towards mechanization, firstly,
[00:20:21] because it's speed, secondly, people are no longer willing,
[00:20:24] even for big money, as before, and don't want to
[00:20:27] engage in difficult physical labor in not the most comfortable
[00:20:31] conditions. I'm following foreign news
[00:20:34] now, observing, but... they're like
[00:20:38] tanks, non-stop,
[00:20:41] they're turning this straw, hay,
[00:20:44] silage this year, it's pleasant to watch, and I think, well,
[00:20:48] Karankevich made his own, and it's...
[00:21:20] not very, and mine and yours, not very much there, well, I don't have daughters,
[00:21:24] but for those who do, they won't go milk cows.
[00:21:28] Ilona smiles as if she's going to milk cows, well,
[00:21:31] let's see, if this is a matter of our food
[00:21:34] security, then it's quite understandable that we're concerned
[00:21:38] that our own people can provide it for
[00:21:41] themselves. Yes, it's not as simple as with the baler, especially
[00:21:45] since there are plenty of analogues in the world, even our Chinese friends can and
[00:21:49] do.
[00:22:50] region, well, to somehow accelerate our Bobruisk Agricultural Machinery
[00:22:53] to faster steps, or in extreme cases, you know, there is an enterprise
[00:22:57] Bobruisk Agricultural Machinery on the territory of the Brest region, well,
[00:23:00] we will set up an alternative production of another
[00:23:03] type of baler at this enterprise. So
[00:23:06] the question arises, why should we toil over our own, if everything
[00:23:10] is working out so perfectly? This
[00:23:12] is a matter of honor, if you will, and technological
[00:23:15] sovereignty, not everything is decided by cold calculation. Listen, well, it's
[00:23:19] like with flax. Everyone has seen the Belarusian coat of
[00:23:21] arms, so it is framed with golden
[00:23:25] ears of wheat, intertwined with clover and
[00:23:28] flax flowers. This is flax, those very blue field lakes,
[00:23:32] when it blooms, it's flax, beautiful, comfortable to wear,
[00:23:35] stylish, but capricious in cultivation and
[00:23:38] care. How we struggle with it every year! No, there are those
[00:23:42] who laugh at the phrase about pulling long-stemmed flax, but
[00:23:46] for those in the know, this process is not about pleasure at all.
[00:23:51] And we preserve our such demanding wealth, although
[00:23:55] there are analogues, why?
[00:23:58] We call flax northern silk. Behind this poetic
[00:24:01] name are years of selection, field work, workshops,
[00:24:05] machines. We are used to considering it part of our identity, but
[00:24:09] today on the shelves next to Belarusian flax, Chinese flax
[00:24:11] appears more and more often, and buyers take it. We
[00:24:15] are not rushing to conclusions, but the question arose: what is
[00:24:19] ours today? And most importantly, is it worth investing in it as much as
[00:24:22] we do? Everything begins at the Mogilev Regional
[00:24:26] Experimental Station, flax breeding has been going on here for
[00:24:29] 70 years, during which time 27 varieties have been created,
[00:24:33] among the bestsellers are reliable Malakhit, sturdy Rubizh, they cover
[00:24:36] half of all flax fields in the country, but to create a variety
[00:24:40] takes at least 15 years, from the first crossbreeding to state
[00:24:43] trials, all for the fiber to be thin,
[00:24:46] flexible, strong. Two new varieties, Patriot and
[00:25:20] conditions yield an excellent harvest, but in Belarus they are prone to lodging,
[00:25:24] and the fiber content and its ultimate properties are inferior
[00:25:27] to our varieties. Therefore, breeders use the world gene pool in their
[00:25:31] work, crossing foreign samples with domestic ones, to
[00:25:35] take the best from them and create a variety ideally suited for our
[00:25:38] conditions.
[00:25:41] From breeding plots to a large field in the Gorki Lyon farm, this year
[00:25:45] 2,000 hectares were allocated for the crop.
[00:25:49] 90% has already been pulled. Just over 160 hectares
[00:25:52] remain. Flax is not an easy crop; it needs a stable temperature of
[00:25:56] 18 to 25°C, rainfall
[00:25:59] exactly on time, and after harvesting, it cannot be returned to the same field
[00:26:02] for at least 5-7 years, otherwise diseases accumulate.
[00:26:06] The main risks, well, when growing flax, if
[00:26:09] heavy rains occur before sprouting, then it will
[00:26:12] sprout poorly. During vegetation, of course,
[00:26:16] winds, rains, but during harvesting, this, of course,
[00:26:20] is the necessary amount of precipitation for retting.
[00:26:23] From the fields, the raw material goes to the factory, where two types of
[00:26:27] fiber are produced: long and short.
[00:26:30] to the Orsha flax mill.
[00:26:33] and the main processor. Over the past 10 years, about
[00:26:36] $200 million in investments have been made here. Today, it is no longer just
[00:26:39] a factory, but a holding company that controls the entire cycle from field
[00:26:43] to finished product. This year, we will complete the modernization
[00:26:47] of the first weaving factory, where we will process
[00:26:50] mostly short-staple flax fiber and obtain
[00:26:54] modern fabrics with the ability to produce
[00:26:57] blended fabrics, so that the fabric is more modern, so that the fabric
[00:27:01] is more...
[00:27:06] convenience and comfort - that's what consumers most often cite as an
[00:27:09] example when comparing our flax with Chinese flax. Their advantage is that they
[00:27:13] were able to make elastane. Elastane is great
[00:27:17] because it holds and prevents the fabric from
[00:27:20] stretching. Our fabrics, especially 100% linen, if
[00:27:24] it fits snugly and has a little tension, it can stretch. Chinese
[00:27:28] linen is convenient and accessible, but there's a nuance: for the money it's
[00:27:32] sold for, there's almost no real linen. It would seem that
[00:27:35] in such a case we have an advantage, but the market is structured differently:
[00:27:38] China is a huge technological country with powerful state
[00:27:42] support, they know how to promote their products, they offer
[00:27:45] a low price and do it so convincingly that the consumer rarely
[00:27:49] thinks about the composition, and today China is confidently moving up the
[00:27:53] price segment. If we do not hold our positions, we risk losing
[00:27:57] the market. For this not to happen, support is needed not only for the giants
[00:28:00] of light industry, but also for small businesses. For example, we are a brand that
[00:28:04] produces products entirely on
[00:28:08] Belarusian raw materials. Of course, I would like, that even in the procurement of
[00:28:12] materials, the priority should be ours, some financial
[00:28:15] support, then we will certainly be able to bypass
[00:28:18] the Chinese, that percentage on loans and taxes they
[00:28:22] have, it's not at all the same as ours, so they have very
[00:28:25] strong state support, until we are supported
[00:28:29] like that, we will lose. Now let's look at the export figures.
[00:28:32] Arkhangelsk Combine in 2025, over 100
[00:28:35] million dollars to 40 countries, Russia, China, Turkey, European
[00:28:39] countries, while the profitability of flax production in the best farms
[00:28:42] reaches 70%, is that a lot or a little, considering
[00:28:46] that the state annually increases support, is flax worth
[00:28:50] bothering with? Well, here it's more worth asking, can we afford
[00:28:54] to give it up? No, we can't. Flax
[00:28:57] is not just fabric, it's jobs, it's technological
[00:29:00] independence, it's our identity.
[00:29:02] And to preserve this, we need to continue to develop, then
[00:29:06] the northern silk has a future,
[00:29:09] such outdated brands as flax, we have many, and
[00:29:13] this is for what, and that can be bought, but if something
[00:29:16] changes in the usual or on the shelf in the store, God forbid,
[00:29:19] it disappears, then expect a wave on social networks,
[00:29:23] even if that person didn't buy it, and if they love it,
[00:29:26] it will be like with the children's preserves from the Orsha combine,
[00:29:29] please tell me, who knows, where
[00:29:32] did these MKK meat jars disappear? If
[00:29:36] you were looking for Orsha meat combine preserves, you can stop
[00:29:39] looking, the jar has been changed, a problem
[00:29:42] of problems. The Orsha combine is now under the wing of the Dzerzhinsky agro-combine,
[00:29:46] if you didn't know, of course, but the root of the external changes is still
[00:29:50] elsewhere. All people are looking, and we see on
[00:29:53] social media that they are asking where the tin can
[00:29:56] of baby food is, baby food was never produced
[00:29:59] in a tin can. There are special allowances, requirements for the production
[00:30:03] of children's meat puree, and an aluminum can was used
[00:30:06] there, aluminum packaging that was used in the production of local preserves was
[00:30:10] imported, meaning it was bought from outside. The aluminum
[00:30:14] market in the Russian Federation is monopolized
[00:30:17] by manufacturers who have their own views on the development of this
[00:30:20] story, and if you dig a little deeper,
[00:30:24] even among Russian producers
[00:30:27] of products in aluminum packaging, there was a resonance, especially among
[00:30:31] beer producers, due to the fact that aluminum prices in Russia
[00:30:35] are somehow tied to the London
[00:30:38] Metal Exchange, and price formation
[00:30:42] for Russian producers and
[00:30:44] for friendly producers is somehow
[00:30:48] at world prices, which are in no way connected and to some extent are
[00:30:51] speculative. We see how the situation in the world is developing
[00:30:54] today, how sanctions are acting and working,
[00:30:58] therefore, considering the
[00:31:01] tasks set. First of all, understanding that
[00:31:04] an enterprise that produces such an important product as baby
[00:31:08] food must be provided with domestic
[00:31:11] components, a decision was made within the framework
[00:31:14] of the program for... import substitution and rejection of
[00:31:18] third-party production, meaning
[00:31:20] outside the state, to switch to a domestic glass jar
[00:31:24] production, this certainly did not affect
[00:31:27] either the recipes or the filling
[00:31:31] of the jar, all recipes are preserved, but
[00:31:34] today they have a more modern look, a glass jar is still
[00:31:38] a neutral glass, a neutral material
[00:31:41] that does not contact food, does not change it.
[00:31:45] This means plus the convenience of heating, it is definitely
[00:31:48] more environmentally friendly, here there is a question of a formed
[00:31:51] habit,
[00:32:00] work is being done, first of all
[00:32:03] to maintain prices, here, of course, there are some aspects
[00:32:06] that we are working on with our large retail, but today an absolute
[00:32:10] understanding has been reached, so the end
[00:32:14] consumer will be... offered a clear, familiar product, yes, in
[00:32:18] a different package, but more recognizable, I believe,
[00:32:21] the information field of the glass jar will allow making
[00:32:24] the label brighter, more colorful, more
[00:32:27] readable, it's not that simple,
[00:32:31] you have to delve deeper, but you don't want to, because
[00:32:34] it's much simpler to do what is said, it's harder to do it with
[00:32:38] intelligence, with understanding, for what we want to achieve,
[00:32:41] we need to go where there will be a result. You don't need to
[00:32:45] show this to the public, to the president on TV and so on
[00:32:49] and so forth, no need, I have other
[00:32:52] methods of work, style of work, I see who does
[00:32:55] what, let's address these or those
[00:32:59] issues to the point, and don't
[00:33:02] promise what you cannot do, and what
[00:33:05] Belarus does not need today, I mean, starting from
[00:33:09] Russia and China, ending with Africa, we need to do
[00:33:13] only what we can. Today,
[00:33:17] it's hard to figure it out, not as hyped, maybe
[00:33:20] bright, but you know, stable.
[00:33:36] The key task of the state program 2630 is, first
[00:33:40] of all, the renovation and reformatting of our
[00:33:44] tourism industry. As we well know, yes, the economic
[00:33:47] block is now directly involved in the tourism industry, we built our vertical this
[00:33:51] way, that is, the Council of Ministers, we are directly subordinate to the Council of Ministers, then tourism
[00:33:55] departments have already been created in the economic committees of the regional executive committees of the Minsk
[00:33:58] city executive committee, this is our direct vertical, and in the regions there are already tourist
[00:34:02] information centers with which we work, that is, it is important
[00:34:05] for us to understand the economics of tourism, to clearly understand it,
[00:34:08] therefore the state program is such a very tiered
[00:34:12] work, first of all, we understand that we have demand.
[00:34:27] institutions, our medical services, rehabilitation,
[00:34:31] we see that they are almost 100% booked, even some of these
[00:34:34] premium-class sanatoriums are very busy, but at the same time, I will also
[00:34:37] share with you, it's very interesting, when we started looking at the statistics, we
[00:34:41] saw that in some sanatoriums the number of Belarusian
[00:34:45] vacationers is 60-65%, that is,
[00:34:48] it cannot be said that only foreigners vacation there, no, our citizens also willingly use
[00:34:51] these services, because it is a good opportunity to recover, that is,
[00:34:55] our medical services are indeed at a high level, so the state program
[00:34:59] is infrastructure, the state program is of course marketing, the state program is
[00:35:03] promoting our tourist product to the external contour, so we
[00:35:07] work with domestic tourism, we understand that from within, tourist flows
[00:35:10] need to be shown new tourist locations,
[00:35:14] you know, the most difficult thing, as this modest accumulated experience shows, is that the most difficult thing
[00:35:18] is to surprise a Belarusian who knows everything about the country, it's a little easier
[00:35:21] with foreigners, but I will emphasize again that after conducting
[00:35:25] such an inventory of tourist locations, we noticed
[00:35:28] that we really have a lot of everything, but very few people know about it,
[00:35:31] so we are working to increase awareness of those specific
[00:35:35] locations that simply did not receive sufficient information at
[00:35:38] the time, did not appear on the pages of any publications, were not included in textbooks, were not
[00:35:42] captured on film, we are conducting such an information campaign, that is,
[00:35:45] specifically in terms of digital marketing, we highlight, create video content and place it on our
[00:35:49] platforms, and of course, again, for us, personnel are very
[00:35:52] important, we understand that the tourism industry is now
[00:35:56] reformatted, we see that we need
[00:35:59] to train management personnel for the vertical, again, we
[00:36:02] need experience in terms of improving the quality of our services, mhm,
[00:36:06] we are also gradually working with very successful countries, and the head of state instructed
[00:36:10] us to study the experience of the Persian Gulf countries, which indeed make a very significant
[00:36:14] contribution to tourism GDP, we also review
[00:36:17] these points and gradually build this tiered
[00:36:20] work.
[00:36:30] Let's remember that our foreign policy doctrine
[00:36:33] is on a tractor. On the one hand, they are already accustomed to our Belarusians and
[00:36:36] BelAZ trucks since Soviet times, on the other hand, bang, and there is already
[00:36:40] China, our all-weather, strategic
[00:36:43] solution is one, to develop localization. We see how the head
[00:36:46] of state overcomes thousands of kilometers, intercultural
[00:36:50] differences, and you know, this power of geopolitical position,
[00:36:53] one could have given up, but no, he fights for interests.
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