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[00:00:00] from Vietnam, Myanmar and
[00:00:02] Laos. In August we are expecting a large delegation
[00:00:06] from the People's Republic of China. My first impression of Belarus
[00:00:10] is exclusively positive. I came here for the first time, I
[00:00:13] like it very much here, I am surprised how clean the air is and
[00:00:17] how green the forests are. Belarusian children are very friendly, I have
[00:00:21] already made friends with them, they are very active, kind, easy
[00:00:25] to communicate with, and there are also interesting sports games and
[00:00:29] competitions at the camp. Annually
[00:00:35] since 2017, funds are
[00:00:38] allocated on the instructions of the head of state. During this time, more
[00:00:41] than 2,500 children from
[00:00:44] 40 countries have rested and received treatment in Belarus.
[00:01:05] We remember that our foreign political doctrine
[00:01:08] is on a tractor. On the one hand, they are already accustomed to our Belarusians and
[00:01:11] Belazs, since Soviet times, on the other hand, suddenly, it's
[00:01:15] China. Our all-weather and strategic way out is to
[00:01:19] develop localization. We see how the head of state
[00:01:22] overcomes thousands of kilometers of intercultural differences, and
[00:01:26] you know, this strength of geopolitical position, one could have resigned oneself.
[00:01:30] Well, that's it, no, he fights for the country's interests, well, let's
[00:01:33] support him, because everyone wants to see the country sovereign, peaceful
[00:01:36] and secure. One of the criteria for the chosenness of the planetary
[00:01:40] elite is life in nature, in the village, in our opinion, the president
[00:01:44] always calls on Belarusians to return to their roots, so we live off
[00:01:47] our own bread, singing songs under a peaceful sky,
[00:01:51] but unfortunately, evil winds try to extinguish
[00:01:54] those life-giving rays, but no,
[00:01:58] our Mound of Glory, a beacon...
[00:03:44] Hello viewer, my name is Igor Tur, this is my propaganda,
[00:03:48] let's start, I will start today from afar and figuratively,
[00:03:52] now they will probably smile, maybe grumble somewhere in a whisper,
[00:03:55] there will be two TV operators who are here with me in the studio,
[00:03:59] about 12 years ago, when I first started working on television, these two
[00:04:03] rogues could have spun me around to not strain too much
[00:04:06] for their stable salary. If I had given them
[00:04:10] today's technical task then, they would have easily
[00:04:13] bombarded me with arguments that it was impossible, or at least,
[00:04:17] it was very difficult, long and expensive. They would surely have used
[00:04:20] smart words and acronyms, like the DPI is not right,
[00:04:24] the contour light won't give depth, they won't be able
[00:04:26] to zoom. I would scratch my head and answer, well... Okay,
[00:04:30] then let's not, and I would leave, and they would happily kick the bucket and
[00:04:34] rejoice at how cleverly they fooled the young correspondent. The same thing could have
[00:04:38] been done by the third person in the sound studio, the director, referring
[00:04:41] to some excessive reverberation, and then the video
[00:04:44] editing engineer would claim that rendering would have errors,
[00:04:48] the bitrate was unsuitable and he didn't have the footage ordered. But after
[00:04:52] a dozen years at ONT, today I can tell them with understanding that they
[00:04:56] are talking nonsense to me, just to do nothing and not strain themselves.
[00:05:00] Even if we imagine that they really don't know how to perform this assigned
[00:05:03] task, well then open your notebooks and write down
[00:05:07] what cameras to take, with what lenses, what settings
[00:05:10] to enter, and so on. And your stories about
[00:05:14] reverberation and about renders, well, you probably leave them to some
[00:05:17] interns, although it's better to help them, not
[00:05:20] show off. I still have to watch,
[00:05:24] for example, the content of our fugitives at work, when they
[00:05:27] say something supposedly sensational about how Belarusian
[00:05:30] television is arranged, that Tur receives instructions, or everything
[00:05:34] must be coordinated, how our editing is supposedly arranged,
[00:05:37] filming, and generally our life. It's head-scratching, because,
[00:05:41] dear viewer, if you watch something like this and believe it,
[00:05:45] congratulations, you are being fed utter nonsense, but the lack
[00:05:48] of knowledge in this field does not allow you to identify
[00:05:51] this nonsense. Anyone can be fed
[00:05:55] nonsense in areas where a person lacks understanding of even
[00:05:58] basic principles, be it in medicine or nuclear energy. Moreover, this nonsense
[00:06:02] will seem plausible, logical, substantiated, and
[00:06:05] even supported by smart, incomprehensible terms.
[00:06:09] Let's get to the point, having finished the overture. It's far from
[00:06:12] so categorical, but something similar happened last week in the Brest region,
[00:06:16] where the president was also briefed on agriculture
[00:06:19] and the fact that in some areas the grain
[00:06:22] was frankly flooded by rains. Kobrin,
[00:06:25] here Malarita, Zhabinka, the Revsky district,
[00:06:29] here yes, it flooded a bit in the Ruzhansky district, well, and
[00:06:32] you know, I know better than you where it flooded and where
[00:06:36] not. Overall, it's not bad, it rained equally everywhere.
[00:06:39] Now we need to harvest the grain. Overall, throughout
[00:06:43] the country, it should not be lower than last year's
[00:06:47] level. If you deliver 12 million tons
[00:06:50] this year, it will be a great achievement, but even
[00:06:53] 11.5 is good. The colossal
[00:06:57] advantage of Alexander Lukashenka is that he has been
[00:07:00] president for a long time. I have always considered certain term limits
[00:07:04] for power, whether two or three, to be nonsense, and I will probably
[00:07:07] always continue to do so. Someday we will have another
[00:07:11] president, and there's a high probability that they will report to him
[00:07:14] like this: "Understand correctly, you saw how much rain there was across the country,
[00:07:18] and there were also hurricanes, tornadoes, and other whirlwinds, and then
[00:07:22] the temperature rose to +40, so we won't have a good harvest
[00:07:25] this year." And he will answer them without fully understanding
[00:07:29] the depths due to his inexperience, "But they seem to be speaking correctly,
[00:07:32] I saw the precipitation myself, the scorching sun, but what can I
[00:07:36] demand from them?" He will say, "It's impossible. Well, at least try to
[00:07:39] do something." They will answer: "Of course, we will do everything
[00:07:43] possible and impossible." And this will be the beginning of a catastrophe in our country's
[00:07:47] agriculture, because they will do
[00:07:50] everything
[00:07:52] half-heartedly. Lukashenka is experienced after
[00:07:56] these decades, so he can answer, "Hey, guys, don't
[00:07:59] give me nonsense. If it's flooded, then dry it. You should have ready
[00:08:03] grain drying complexes. If the ears were flattened by the wind, then lift them up.
[00:08:07] You should have the appropriate attachments for that.
[00:08:10] If the sun is burning, why don't you switch to round-the-clock
[00:08:14] work to cope faster? Your task was to find personnel for this.
[00:08:18] Right?" Yes, for objectivity,
[00:08:21] grain dried several times will be slightly higher in cost
[00:08:24] than grain harvested in ideal conditions, but the head of state is not talking about
[00:08:28] the required profit per centner or from the harvest in general, only about
[00:08:32] the total yield, and then how to get super profits from expensive
[00:08:35] grain, we'll figure it out. We have BNBC, for example. This applies to
[00:08:39] different areas. I smiled on Thursday in Brest when...
[00:09:12] this will be straw, thank you, but I know
[00:09:16] how much straw is needed for mushrooms. At
[00:09:19] the same time, I am by no means criticizing the authorities in the Brest region, nor
[00:09:23] the executive vertical in general. I am talking about something else. Almost 10 years of working
[00:09:27] alongside the president gives me reason to assert that, in my opinion, this is one of
[00:09:30] Alexander Grigoryevich's techniques to better understand the real
[00:09:34] state of affairs. How do you evaluate, for example,
[00:09:38] the head of state's attitude towards visited
[00:09:40] enterprises? Because what and how he says is true. At
[00:09:44] the Brest electric lamp factory, for example, there was harsh criticism about
[00:09:48] why there was a failure there. But it's more subtle to try to understand
[00:09:52] why the president speaks that way, and why. What I saw was
[00:09:55] managerial cunning and even manipulation on the part of the
[00:09:59] country's leader. How could it be that some calmly reported that
[00:10:02] everything was perfect, while others said everything was bad? Where the truth
[00:10:06] lies is unclear. So Alexander Grigoryevich arrives, and immediately
[00:10:09] sternly and unequivocally states, "You have the right
[00:10:12] to work!" And then those in the management of the enterprise who
[00:10:16] disagree with this thesis begin to really prove that everything is not so
[00:10:19] bad, perhaps even good. Controllers intervene with their
[00:10:23] arguments, "Just a second, you have... problems here and here, you are
[00:10:26] lying or holding back." Then local authorities step in,
[00:10:30] answering, "Agreed, there are shortcomings here,
[00:10:33] but we have already developed measures to eliminate them, and they are already yielding
[00:10:37] results, and you are just exaggerating." The center
[00:10:40] then joins the dispute, in the person of either the Presidential Administration or
[00:10:44] the government, some siding with one, others with the other. Alexander Lukashenka observes
[00:10:47] all this cleverly, because in a conflict
[00:10:51] artificially provoked, it's easier to understand what
[00:10:55] is really happening at this factory, which officials
[00:10:58] are deeply involved, who just rewrote reports superficially, and who
[00:11:02] genuinely cares about the result, and who just wants to get through this high-level
[00:11:06] visit. It is quite certain that Alexander Grigoryevich does not
[00:11:09] need any boastful reports about how we will soon catch up with and
[00:11:12] overtake everyone on the planet, if these reports have nothing
[00:11:16] in common with reality. At the Brest electric lamp factory,
[00:11:20] it was like this: "We don't know how to make diodes, but we know how to
[00:11:24] make light bulbs."
[00:11:55] The President asks a question to some official, "Will we
[00:11:58] be able to do this when?" The official stands up and briskly reports that
[00:12:02] all assigned tasks will be completed, just give him literally
[00:12:05] 5 years and the industry will definitely flourish. I broadcast all this,
[00:12:09] and then some specialist from this
[00:12:12] industry writes or calls me with approximately the
[00:12:15] following thesis: "I don't know why this official reported
[00:12:18] that to the President, why did you show it on air, but it is either
[00:12:22] impossible to complete the assigned task ever, or
[00:12:26] it is impossible to complete it in 5 years, or it is possible, but
[00:12:29] it will be so expensive and inefficient that there is no
[00:12:33] sense in it." The CEO reported on the diodes, according to other
[00:12:36] specialists, theoretically we can create our own production
[00:12:39] from scratch, but it will be colossally expensive, and our
[00:12:43] products will in no way be able to withstand competition with China,
[00:12:46] for example, which supplies these diodes to the foreign market by
[00:12:50] the billions. The question is: why then
[00:12:53] does the President sometimes receive reports...
[00:13:25] for state interests, the logic is: today I
[00:13:27] will promise the president everything he asks for, even fully
[00:13:31] understanding that it is impossible. But I will promise that everything will be done in
[00:13:34] 5-10 years, if you give money today for this beautiful
[00:13:38] future. And by the time this beautiful future arrives, hopefully I will have been
[00:13:41] transferred somewhere else to work, either up, or diagonally, or horizontally,
[00:13:45] it doesn't matter. But the one who comes after me
[00:13:48] will be responsible for these promises and for returning the loans.
[00:13:52] Does Alexandrev understand this?
[00:14:25] the West and so on. But if there is
[00:14:28] discipline, where I visit, in the
[00:14:31] forest, everything is so neat, they
[00:14:35] do it perfectly. There's nothing like it in the world. I conclude:
[00:14:39] we can, we can. Where the president
[00:14:43] has been, it's good. Well, I'm not everywhere,
[00:14:46] and example number two, not
[00:14:50] just from last week, but on the very same day, but
[00:14:53] already about the city of Brest. I also have other bodies,
[00:14:57] besides Vasily Nikolaevich, who will control and say
[00:15:01] what is bad, what is good, how you removed all sorts of
[00:15:04] trash and scrap metal before my arrival, and so on. But
[00:15:08] it's good that before the president's arrival you sweep the
[00:15:11] corridors and workshops, it's not bad, and you remove from
[00:15:15] the territory what hasn't been removed for centuries. But this needs to be done
[00:15:18] constantly. I'm leading to the fact that being an effective
[00:15:22] leader is a very delicate job, and when the president praises
[00:15:26] someone publicly for something, it doesn't mean that he is unaware
[00:15:29] of the shortcomings. Similarly, when he criticizes, sometimes it's to
[00:15:32] better understand how well everything is going. There
[00:15:36] must be a natural inclination for this, which is why
[00:15:40] presidents are not made, they are born, but
[00:15:43] this art is honed by experience, the more
[00:15:45] experience, the better. And finally, as usual, about personal matters. I am deeply
[00:15:49] convinced that the best propaganda is honest propaganda, which is why I
[00:15:53] will never undertake to propagate, let's say, certain
[00:15:57] democratic elements of our system
[00:15:59] of state administration, because I believe in strong authority, a strong
[00:16:03] leader, and I will not call from TV screens, "Don't come
[00:16:07] to the regional centers, the best jobs are in the regions," because I
[00:16:10] myself moved to the capital a long time ago in search of the most
[00:16:14] challenging, most responsible journalistic work. But I
[00:16:17] can honestly advocate, because it has been tested on myself and is
[00:16:20] part of my life, moving to a village from a big city to a private
[00:16:24] house, which the president calls everyone to do, well, 10 acres, so
[00:16:27] that in the morning you can walk through the dew, and trees nearby, from birches to
[00:16:31] pines, increase the level of happiness in life.
[00:16:35] Comfort is also good, but
[00:16:38] comfort is not equal to happiness, not to mention
[00:16:41] the mass, in fact, useless race for some
[00:16:44] ostentation. I can honestly advocate the calls
[00:16:48] of Alexander Lukashenka to the people to switch to electric heating in
[00:16:51] houses and apartments. From this summer, I can honestly say that yes, let's all
[00:16:55] switch to electric transport together, because it
[00:16:58] is really cool. And most importantly, I have two children,
[00:17:02] so I, it seems to me, have the right to sincerely say, dear
[00:17:05] Belarusians, let's have more children, and not just for demography
[00:17:09] for the good of the homeland, but children are happiness and the meaning of life, and
[00:17:12] an incentive to perform feats, and the most powerful reason to become older,
[00:17:16] wiser, and smarter. In September 2024, the Ministry
[00:17:20] of Internal Affairs of our country offered me to become an unofficial
[00:17:23] representative of the system of military-patriotic clubs
[00:17:26] of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Frankly speaking, I agreed with internal
[00:17:30] hesitation. My son will definitely go to a military-patriotic
[00:17:33] club, but at that time he was one and a half years old. My daughter is now nine,
[00:17:37] but she's a very girly girl, so I didn't insist or suggest it. But with
[00:17:41] Yuliana, I once went on an excursion to a military unit of the Internal Troops
[00:17:45] of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and she absolutely loved it there. In early summer, she
[00:17:48] learned from her friends that in such brigades there are children's camps
[00:18:01] a shift at the military-patriotic camp "Granit," which is military unit
[00:18:05] 5448, that is, the first separate.
[00:18:15] I'm not even talking about the romance of barrack life, albeit adapted
[00:18:19] for children. I'm not talking about the fantastically cool food
[00:18:23] in the brigade, which is already customary for the internal troops,
[00:18:26] and not even about leisure activities within the unit. Military education
[00:18:30] was also present, and a daily routine, including morning exercises and no
[00:18:33] gadgets, except for calling parents in the evening briefly. And
[00:18:37] they touched upon drill training, looked at weapons and equipment, that
[00:18:41] was there, but much more important was the patriotic component. Sometimes
[00:18:44] the work in this direction is done poorly, when children and teenagers
[00:18:48] are seated in classrooms and monotonously lectured, and it's
[00:18:52] even lucky if they have slides, telling them that they
[00:18:55] must love their homeland, how to love their homeland, how much the homeland
[00:18:59] does for them, why they should love it, you simply must,
[00:19:02] children. Such an approach to patriotic education
[00:19:06] will only evoke the opposite effect. In the internal
[00:19:09] troops, I say this not so much as a propagandist and not
[00:19:13] so much as an official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' VPK, but as
[00:19:16] the dad of a nine-year-old girl, they do it right. My daughter, in
[00:19:20] 2 weeks, was simply shown her Belarus, in such a way
[00:19:23] that she herself sincerely wanted to love it even more. The children were taken and
[00:19:27] simply shown all the beauty of their homeland. Here are our rivers
[00:19:31] and lakes, here are endless forests, and in them live all these different
[00:19:35] animals. Here's how people used to live here, from the era of castles to
[00:19:38] modernity. Here, in our history, there was war and the tragedy of Khatyn.
[00:19:42] Here's how millions of people rebuilt the country. And look what
[00:19:46] cool things we've learned to make ourselves: BelAZ trucks, tractors, combines, and much
[00:19:50] more. Here, children, are also entertainments for every taste. For
[00:19:53] you to have all this, all the dads and moms of the country worked very
[00:19:57] hard. The fundamental, cornerstone,
[00:20:00] system-forming element of patriotic education
[00:20:03] of children: they first need to be shown that the homeland, in the person
[00:20:06] of all... loves them. First, not so much
[00:20:10] with words as with deeds, to show this love and care. Only after
[00:20:14] that, as a final touch, humbly, without excessive pathos,
[00:20:17] say: "Children, your native Belarus loves you, so love
[00:20:20] her too." But if everything is done correctly, then even the words themselves will
[00:20:24] not be necessary. For such military-patriotic
[00:20:27] education, correct and sensible, I dare
[00:20:30] to say a common fatherly and common parental thank you
[00:20:34] to the architects of this system, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the commander.
[00:20:50] Belarusian woman, Lieutenant of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alena
[00:20:53] Soboleva, who supervises children in the Granit camp, shift after shift,
[00:20:57] is universally loved by all parents, because with kindness
[00:21:00] and care she manages to surround not only children, but also adults,
[00:21:03] who are constantly interested in what their son or daughter is doing, someone
[00:21:07] needs something to be passed on, something to be found somewhere, she entertains everyone with
[00:21:10] photo reports and simply sometimes talks. When they said goodbye
[00:21:14] to her, the children sobbed inconsolably and promised to
[00:21:17] meet her again with their
[00:21:20] militarized leader, I was not
[00:21:24] surprised, because not all parents in the chat were
[00:21:27] aware: the Belarusian Red Cross has an amazing project called
[00:21:30] "Nanny Instead of Mom". Children from infancy
[00:21:34] who for some reason were left without parents, well,
[00:21:37] of course, in specialized institutions they are provided
[00:21:40] by the state with everything necessary, but the warmth
[00:21:44] of a mother's hands will still not replace it. There are Belarusians who
[00:21:48] find the opportunity, time and strength, including moral,
[00:21:51] to become nannies instead of mothers for such children, if only for a short time,
[00:21:55] not for work, not for salary, as a volunteer, to feed, play,
[00:21:59] change clothes, take or carry to procedures, just to be near,
[00:22:02] surrounding the baby with warmth and care.
[00:22:06] One of these volunteers is Lieutenant Soboleva, moreover, she
[00:22:09] does not demand or ask for public gratitude for this, because,
[00:22:13] "Well, I'm doing this for the children. And just tell about our project, maybe
[00:22:17] more volunteers will join, but don't talk specifically about me,"
[00:22:20] she might say. I am sure we should, Alyona
[00:22:24] Sergeevna, talk about you and other such Belarusian women
[00:22:27] who modestly work true miracles, and for this to
[00:22:31] happen even more often, we just need to promote
[00:22:33] our Belarusian women more often. My name is Igor Tur, this was my propaganda.
[00:22:52] Minsk - capital, but not
[00:22:54] bustling, modern, but preserving
[00:22:58] the memory of centuries, dynamic and at the same time
[00:23:01] cozy. It is a city where history breathes
[00:23:05] in sync with the future. It strikes with its spaciousness
[00:23:09] and scope, and monumental
[00:23:11] architecture. The majestic and strict
[00:23:15] ensemble of post-war revival. This is
[00:23:18] the city's calling card. Here you can feel
[00:23:21] the breath of great
[00:23:23] history.
[00:23:31] But turn off the wide avenue, and you enter
[00:23:35] a completely different, intimate and lyrical
[00:23:38] Minsk. Cozy courtyards, historical
[00:23:42] quarters, the whisper of the Svisloch river. And
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[00:24:09] It's sporty, event-filled, always ready
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[00:24:22] But the main treasure of Minsk are its inhabitants,
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[00:24:56] Belarusian and Arab parliaments signed a memorandum of understanding, which will
[00:25:00] become an inter-parliamentary bridge that will connect Belarus
[00:25:03] with the Arab world in trade and economic spheres, in
[00:25:06] education and medicine. Belarus is developing a large-scale
[00:25:10] project to supply Mozambique with 400 units
[00:25:13] of agricultural equipment, including a thousand tractors. A country with a population of almost
[00:25:16] 40 million and access to the Indian Ocean
[00:25:20] is interested in Belarusian technologies. Mozambique needs support in security
[00:25:23] and combating various forms of organized crime,
[00:25:27] and in this we can help both with training specialists
[00:25:31] and with teaching technologies for working with drones, anti-drone
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[00:25:37] plays one of the key roles in the development of the Belarusian economy. It forms
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