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[00:01:38] Hello, viewer, my name is Igor Tur, this is my propaganda.
[00:01:41] Let's begin! Last week was marked primarily
[00:01:44] by the participation of Alexander Lukashenka in the Shanghai
[00:01:48] Cooperation Organization summit, but today I want to start the program
[00:01:51] with something else, with school. At the end of August, like thousands
[00:01:55] of other parents across the country, I was at a parent-teacher meeting before
[00:01:59] the start of the academic year, at which the director announced a new
[00:02:03] regulation, according to Council of Ministers Resolution
[00:02:06] No. 307 on the implementation of security activities at the
[00:02:10] school entrance, a selective inspection of students' personal
[00:02:14] belongings will be organized by employees of the Department of Protection
[00:02:17] of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. 80% of the assembly
[00:02:20] hall calmly continued to listen, the rest began to whisper
[00:02:24] among themselves and to themselves, and despite the fact that little
[00:02:28] could be heard, besides gestures, it was highly likely
[00:02:31] to assume that something like: "What is this happening for? Why
[00:02:34] are they doing this? Do they have the right? Why should we tolerate this?" and
[00:02:38] so on was being said. If these
[00:02:41] whisperers had distracted themselves from this process and
[00:02:44] listened further, they would have learned that nothing fundamentally new had
[00:02:48] happened. Inspections were possible before, but from September 1st
[00:02:52] of this year, according to regulations, it must take place in the presence of a duty
[00:02:55] teacher, whereas before, if a policeman had reasonable
[00:02:59] suspicions, he could still search the student, but in the presence
[00:03:03] of the child's legal representatives. That is, it was necessary to call
[00:03:06] the father or mother to school so that their son or daughter could show
[00:03:10] their backpack. This objective, insurmountable
[00:03:13] obstacle led to the fact that in practice there were almost no
[00:03:16] inspections, although I emphasize again that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had
[00:03:20] this right previously. I am wholeheartedly
[00:03:23] in favor of the new regulation, just as I was categorically in favor of the ban on mobile phones in
[00:03:27] schools, introduced a year ago. Then too, there was whispering. They argued
[00:03:30] openly with the director, indignant, what would happen if a child really needed
[00:03:34] to call, and where would the phones be stored and wouldn't they be stolen,
[00:03:38] and generally, why change anything if, from
[00:03:42] the point of view of some parents, everything is already fine? I
[00:03:46] like to rely on personal experience. In 2004, one
[00:03:49] of my classmates got a top-of-the-line flip phone with a memory
[00:03:53] card and a bunch of games on it. In the company of ninth-graders,
[00:03:57] mathematics, languages, chemistry with biology, geography, and all
[00:04:00] the rest were sent far away, because at the back desks
[00:04:04] we were always playing Worms, which was the number one game
[00:04:07] back then. I more than admit that this very fact was one of
[00:04:11] the reasons why some of that company did not go to
[00:04:14] university, failing their entrance exams, did not get the profession
[00:04:17] they dreamed of, and did not become successful and happy
[00:04:21] in life, so there's no place for smartphones in school.
[00:04:24] It seems to me there's nothing to discuss about that. As for the
[00:04:27] new regulations on searches, I still remember what I used to bring to school,
[00:04:31] despite being a good student and not a hooligan. Now my parents will probably be surprised, but
[00:04:35] what can I do? Dad, Mom, hello to you. At different
[00:04:38] times, I brought a small knife, a bigger knife, a folding pocket
[00:04:42] knife, a butterfly knife to school, because it was especially fashionable then. Also
[00:04:46] at different times, in my backpack, I had brass knuckles, a gas
[00:04:49] canister found somewhere, and around New Year's, the small pocket of my backpack was always
[00:04:53] stuffed with firecrackers, for which, of course, a lighter
[00:04:57] was needed, and I always had that too. This is of course not
[00:05:00] normal and should not be, especially today. Current
[00:05:04] children seem to have it harder than us, because their heads
[00:05:08] are overloaded with the internet, where they are constantly present. They can
[00:05:11] read something unintelligible, listen to someone unintelligible,
[00:05:14] and their unstable child's psyche can malfunction. While
[00:05:18] on social media, some Belarusian parents were vividly
[00:05:22] discussing the horror that is happening in schools with this total
[00:05:26] police control, in neighboring Russia, where there are exactly the same
[00:05:30] children and exactly the same parents, on September 1st in
[00:05:33] Krasnoyarsk Krai, a seventh-grader stabbed five people in the school,
[00:05:37] teachers and students, and on September 2nd in Bashkortostan...
[00:05:41] a ninth-grader stabbed a classmate right during
[00:05:44] class. This doesn't mean that things are worse in
[00:05:47] Russia; it means that something similar could have already happened in Belarus,
[00:05:51] but it didn't and it won't, because we have, as some
[00:05:54] like to wring their hands, a police
[00:05:58] state, for which most adequate parents actually
[00:06:02] thank the police,
[00:06:04] because if something similar were to happen here, the same
[00:06:08] people who were indignant about the new inspection procedure in schools would
[00:06:12] discuss with the same degree of fervor
[00:06:15] why the tragedy happened, how the schools and police allowed it,
[00:06:19] and when will all this end. They have this quirk of
[00:06:22] wringing their hands and suffering over any topic,
[00:06:26] even in support of contradictory events. Dear
[00:06:30] parents, the list of prohibited items in school: weapons,
[00:06:33] ammunition, stabbing and cutting objects, pyrotechnics, flammable
[00:06:37] liquids, matches, lighters, self-defense items, for example, gas
[00:06:41] canisters, alcohol, drugs, tobacco products, including
[00:06:44] electronic smoking systems, and I assure you, every
[00:06:48] class teacher knows or reasonably assumes which
[00:06:51] of their students might have something from this list in their backpack.
[00:06:55] But if before, the teacher had to independently demand that
[00:06:58] the student hand it over, and children, of course, would take a stance,
[00:07:02] argue, quarrel, and wear out the teacher's nerves, now the teacher simply
[00:07:06] needs to signal the police officer at the post that these kids
[00:07:09] might have something forbidden on them. That's it. Next,
[00:07:12] an inspection by a person in uniform, before whom you can't really
[00:07:16] show off. Two or three such incidents at school,
[00:07:19] word of mouth, and by October, I assure you, all hooligans in all
[00:07:23] schools in the country will be afraid to bring anything dangerous to class,
[00:07:27] and the goal of the new regulation will be achieved. And to those who are against it, I'll answer subjectively:
[00:07:31] in Belarus, there are about a million schoolchildren. If on one side of the scale,
[00:07:34] we inspect each of them every day, and on the other, there's the danger
[00:07:38] of at least one child getting a knife to the rib in some youth skirmish,
[00:07:41] or theoretically, a boy losing an eye
[00:07:44] from a pneumatic or traumatic weapon during a break, or at least one
[00:07:48] girl losing a finger from a firecracker because of a suitor who didn't
[00:07:51] come up with a better way to get attention, not
[00:07:55] to mention, God forbid, a tragedy with the death
[00:07:58] of a child. If it's necessary to inspect
[00:08:02] all a million schoolchildren in the country every day
[00:08:05] for this, then they must be inspected. Although it will be more than
[00:08:09] enough what Belarus already reasonable suspicion.
[00:08:42] Sanction pressure is the reality of today.
[00:08:45] In the arsenal of the powerful of this world, there are not only
[00:08:49] technologies, color revolutions
[00:08:52] and hybrid aggression. Currently, direct massive
[00:08:56] military aggression has demonstrably
[00:08:59] returned. Our response to such a challenge should be
[00:09:02] the formation of a new security architecture
[00:09:06] in Eurasia.
[00:09:08] Eurasia is the largest on the planet, with almost
[00:09:11] a hundred states. On the territory of Eurasia, there is currently a military conflict, largely
[00:09:15] provoked by a state that is on a completely different
[00:09:19] continent. But instead of us ourselves on our
[00:09:22] continent deciding what to do, we are to a greater or lesser extent
[00:09:26] waiting for what some external forces will say about this,
[00:09:29] starting with representatives of the country that actually provoked
[00:09:33] this military conflict. All of this is not to the liking
[00:09:36] of neither China, nor Russia, nor economically strong,
[00:09:40] politically Germany or France. That's just how it
[00:09:43] is in the world, and something definitely needs to be done about it,
[00:09:47] which Alexander Lukashenka is saying. It is possible and necessary to criticize
[00:09:51] NATO, and it is possible and necessary to say that, in general, especially before
[00:09:54] Trump's arrival and the exacerbation of relations between Washington and Brussels,
[00:09:58] the North Atlantic Alliance was a geopolitical dictatorship where
[00:10:01] the US said what to do, and the rest silently agreed.
[00:10:05] But it was still a powerful managed center of power.
[00:10:08] The hegemon says: we impose sanctions, everyone else instantly
[00:10:12] complies; support for some war. There are cascades of collective
[00:10:15] statements and increased military spending, the deployment of military
[00:10:18] force to this conflict zone. If one of the NATO
[00:10:22] members doesn't like something, everyone intervenes for them almost instantly.
[00:10:55] Firstly, they personally found it normal, and allies
[00:10:58] are asked to understand and forgive them. The further it goes, the more obvious
[00:11:01] it becomes that this cannot continue. Even those countries that
[00:11:04] tried to sit on two chairs conclude that this process is neither
[00:11:08] the most pleasant, nor does it lead to the desired result, even
[00:11:12] for them. The nominal current
[00:11:15] security architecture, primarily represented
[00:11:18] by the UN and its Security Council, well, everyone
[00:11:21] perfectly understands that it not only doesn't work, but it has
[00:11:25] also collapsed with a resounding crash. The longer there is no
[00:11:28] adequate counterbalance with adequate unity in the world, the more often
[00:11:31] new military conflicts and new economic
[00:11:35] confrontations will occur on the planet, of which there have been a huge
[00:11:38] number in recent years. This is essentially what Alexander Lukashenka is saying. And
[00:11:42] everyone is saying it, it's just that only he is doing it loudly at the highest
[00:11:46] political level. Nominally, the SCO represents half of the planet's
[00:11:50] population and a third of the planetary economy. Potentially, the SCO, which includes China,
[00:11:53] Russia, India, and other strong countries, is a dominator
[00:11:57] on the planet. But in fact, within the organization itself, there is not yet
[00:12:01] the unity from which everyone and even all
[00:12:04] others would benefit. Essentially, Alexander Grigoryevich publicly poses the question
[00:12:07] bluntly: what are we actually waiting for, and how long will we
[00:12:11] wait? In the future, we can act as a catalyst
[00:12:14] for the revitalization of the UN, restore its
[00:12:17] status as a platform for resolving the most complex
[00:12:21] global problems, and not
[00:12:23] an instrument in the hands of the West for pressure and
[00:12:27] coercion of sovereign and independent
[00:12:30] states. But we are also afraid to talk about that,
[00:12:33] for some reason. Of course, the President of Belarus's job is
[00:12:36] to protect the national interests of his country and his people. Of course,
[00:12:40] Alexander Lukashenka is primarily concerned about what happens
[00:12:44] if sanctions are suddenly imposed against Belarus by someone, so that all partners
[00:12:48] in the SCO stand up fully and declare, ready to execute,
[00:12:51] "Don't dare to pressure Minsk, otherwise we will implement retaliatory measures
[00:12:55] that will be unforgettable." If we are forbidden to fly to the West and they don't fly
[00:12:59] here from there, the answer is, then no problem,
[00:13:02] but we will push Western companies out of certain routes
[00:13:06] and give them to Minsk. Banking restrictions are imposed against Russia,
[00:13:09] okay, then in the SCO everyone unanimously replies, "And then
[00:13:12] we will introduce a multiplying coefficient for sanctioning parties
[00:13:16] on operations in our territory, so that you don't get away with it," and so on
[00:13:20] and so forth. Well, it's clear that NATO and the European Union are much deeper
[00:13:23] they need to catch up.
[00:13:55] financial and economic sanctions are introduced by the SCO,
[00:13:58] and what? Silence.
[00:14:02] The United States tries to stifle China with
[00:14:05] tariffs, a trade war,
[00:14:08] remember? It hasn't ended, and what?
[00:14:12] Moreover, aggression was committed
[00:14:16] against a member country, Iran,
[00:14:20] and what? But the Bishkek summit,
[00:14:23] the capital of Kyrgyzstan, was not only marked by this. Alexander
[00:14:27] Lukashenka also held bilateral negotiations with partners, among whom
[00:14:31] Laos stands out. It stands out more for the topic, because
[00:14:34] they discussed, among other things, joint gold
[00:14:37] mining.
[00:14:39] We can work together in the field of mineral extraction,
[00:14:43] gold. We could jointly build a gold processing
[00:14:46] plant.
[00:14:51] We already have such an enterprise, but we can build.
[00:15:25] financial practice of diversifying reserves, placed its
[00:15:28] gold in bars for storage in Great Britain. Developing
[00:15:31] countries do this regularly, because their gold in
[00:15:35] London, in one of the leading financial centers of the world, is more convenient
[00:15:38] for swap operations and for other investment
[00:15:41] activities. Yes, in general, according to established
[00:15:44] practice, if a country wants to buy gold for its reserves, and
[00:15:48] there is a seller who is not against the deal, for example, Britain,
[00:15:52] the deal is concluded, but physically, the gold,
[00:15:54] legally belonging already to the one who bought it, continues to lie
[00:15:58] in the seller's vaults. At a basic level, it's silly, but on a global
[00:16:02] scale, this was considered normal. Three years
[00:16:05] later, Hugo Chávez decided to return Venezuela's gold
[00:16:09] from all over the world to his country due to a predicted
[00:16:12] crisis in the US and EU. But why should Caracas report
[00:16:16] or state a reason to get its gold back?
[00:16:20] It was about 160 tons of bars, of which 31
[00:16:24] tons still remained in Great Britain, because London
[00:16:27] refused to return the gold to Venezuela, citing politics,
[00:16:30] the alleged illegitimacy of the government,
[00:16:33] undemocratic nature, and other human rights issues.
[00:16:36] 31 tons of Venezuelan gold was
[00:16:40] stolen by Great Britain. Today this gold is valued at
[00:16:43] 4 billion dollars. Nicolás
[00:16:46] Maduro also tried to get it back after Hugo Chávez, but London
[00:16:50] still didn't and hasn't returned it, because it conveniently
[00:16:53] began to consider Juan Guaidó as the allegedly legitimate leader
[00:16:57] of Venezuela. Four days after this comrade declared
[00:17:01] himself the alleged interim head of Venezuela, London gave Caracas
[00:17:04] an answer that it had been bureaucratically delaying for years.
[00:17:07] Essentially, the one we consider the legitimate leader of Venezuela is not asking
[00:17:11] for the gold to be returned, so we won't give anything to anyone. Venezuela's Central
[00:17:15] Bank appealed to the court, but of course, the most democratic and allegedly
[00:17:19] correct judicial system of Great Britain did not
[00:17:22] grant this claim. In June of this year, Venezuela experienced
[00:17:26] a tragedy of historical proportions. Two earthquakes claimed the lives of more
[00:17:29] than 6,000 people, 22,000 buildings collapsed, and some cities
[00:17:33] were practically wiped clean off the face of the earth. Venezuela
[00:17:37] needs money, a lot of money, to restore the country.
[00:17:40] And this issue united even political opponents there.
[00:17:44] Caracas, represented by Delcy Rodríguez, who temporarily
[00:17:47] leads the country after Nicolás Maduro was kidnapped and taken to the US,
[00:17:51] appealed to London on behalf of all political forces in the country,
[00:17:54] "Return our gold to us." An official letter was even written
[00:17:57] to King Charles II asking for help. I take my hat off to them, the Caracas
[00:18:01] authorities even stooped to humiliation for the sake of their people,
[00:18:04] asking a foreign king to help return their own gold. But
[00:18:08] even after that, nothing happened, as in
[00:18:11] the famous meme, nothing at all. It's unlikely
[00:18:14] to ever happen now, because
[00:18:17] as long as Venezuela's gold is in Great Britain, London can
[00:18:20] influence Caracas's policy, twist their arms, promise to return
[00:18:24] the bars for a necessary decision, but then deceive them again
[00:18:27] and impose new conditions. Everyone in the world
[00:18:30] has drawn conclusions. On March 14,
[00:18:34] 2022, the President signed a decree on additional measures to ensure...
[00:18:48] with stones, in accordance with the norms of this
[00:18:51] resolution, at the order of the Ministry of Finance, the Gomel holding
[00:18:54] Kristall began to produce its own measured ingots, immediately
[00:18:58] small ones, with denominations of 1, 20, and 50 grams. But this is just the beginning. In
[00:19:02] November 2024, Alexander Lukashenka came to
[00:19:05] Kristall, where he instructed
[00:19:07] them to substitute the import of gold measured ingots. The quote
[00:19:11] then was: "So that we don't import anything from Switzerland."
[00:19:14] I assume that this is primarily because at any moment, Switzerland can
[00:19:18] refuse to sell us what it sold before, or even
[00:19:21] refuse to give us what we have already actually bought and paid for.
[00:19:25] But where to get the gold itself for its measured bars and for
[00:19:29] its gold and foreign exchange reserves? The fact is that a month
[00:19:32] before the visit to Kristall in October 2024, with the exact same
[00:19:36] leader of Laos, Alexander Lukashenka had already spoken about
[00:19:39] the prospects of joint gold mining. This was on the sidelines
[00:19:42] of the BRICS summit in Kazan. That is, it seems that the president
[00:19:46] conducts preliminary negotiations with a partner, he flies
[00:19:50] to Belarus, then he goes to give an order to produce his own measured
[00:19:53] ingots and not depend on anyone, as happened with Venezuela, already
[00:19:57] understanding that Laos will provide us with gold
[00:20:00] for these ingots. Last week, it seems the project entered a new
[00:20:04] phase, especially since the President of Laos stated that
[00:20:07] Belarus has good experience in gold mining, but we don't
[00:20:11] mine it ourselves, so where does the experience come from? Welcome
[00:20:14] to Africa, with which our president is successfully developing
[00:20:18] relations. In Africa there is plenty of gold,
[00:20:21] they don't need it, especially the unmined gold, more
[00:20:25] than food, medicine, agricultural machinery and many
[00:20:29] other things that Minsk offers. It is likely that with most
[00:20:32] partners in Africa, Belarus is discussing joint mining
[00:20:36] similar to with Laos. We are already mining it there,
[00:20:39] what else is there? It seems that we can also settle
[00:20:42] our accounts for our conditional tractors with gold, especially since Western
[00:20:46] banks are trying to throw a wrench in the works for Africa and us.
[00:20:50] For example, we've become closer friends with - guess what
[00:20:53] Myanmar has a lot of? Right, gold. Everyone noticed
[00:20:57] our special relationship with Uzbekistan, and Tashkent generally.