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[00:00:01] Hello viewer, my name is Igor Tur, this is my propaganda.
[00:00:04] Let's begin. Last week was marked primarily
[00:00:07] by the participation of Alexander Lukashenka in the Shanghai
[00:00:11] Cooperation Organization summit. But, I want to start today's program
[00:00:15] with something else, with school. At the end of August, like thousands of other
[00:00:18] parents across the country, I was at a parent-teacher meeting before
[00:00:22] the start of the academic year, at which the director announced
[00:00:25] a new regulation, according to Council of
[00:00:28] Ministers Decree No. 307 on the implementation of security activities,
[00:00:32] a selective search of students' personal belongings
[00:00:35] will be organized at the school entrance by employees
[00:00:39] of the Ministry of Internal Affairs security department. About
[00:00:42] 80 percent of the assembly hall calmly continued to listen,
[00:00:46] the rest began to whisper among themselves and to themselves,
[00:00:49] and despite the fact that nothing much was heard, but by their facial expressions
[00:00:53] and gestures, it was highly likely
[00:00:56] that they were saying something like: what is happening,
[00:00:59] and why? Do they have the right, why should we endure this and so
[00:01:03] on. If these whisperers had just
[00:01:06] diverted their attention from this process and listened further, they would have
[00:01:09] learned that nothing fundamentally new had happened. Searches
[00:01:13] could have been done before, but from September 1st of this year, according to the regulations, it
[00:01:16] must take place in the presence of a duty teacher, and
[00:01:19] before, if a police officer had reasonable suspicion, he could still
[00:01:23] search a student, but in the presence of the child's legal
[00:01:27] representatives, meaning a father or mother had to be called to school
[00:01:30] so that their son or daughter could show their backpack. This
[00:01:34] objective, insurmountable obstacle led to the fact that in
[00:01:38] practice there were almost no searches, although I emphasize again,
[00:01:41] the Ministry of Internal Affairs had the right to do so before. I
[00:01:45] am wholeheartedly in favor of the new regulation, just as I was strictly
[00:01:48] in favor of banning mobile phones in schools, introduced a year ago.
[00:01:51] Then too, there was whispering, open arguments with the director, indignant,
[00:01:55] what will happen if you really need to call your loved ones, and where will they be
[00:01:59] stored? The phones, and won't they be stolen? And in general,
[00:02:03] why change anything, if from the point of view of some parents,
[00:02:07] everything is already fine. I like to rely on personal experience. In
[00:02:11] 2004, one of my classmates got a
[00:02:14] top-of-the-line flip phone with a memory card and a bunch of games on it.
[00:02:18] And in the company of ninth-graders, math, languages, chemistry,
[00:02:22] biology, geography, everything else was sent packing,
[00:02:25] because at the back desks we were constantly playing
[00:02:28] "worms". This was game number one, I more than assume
[00:02:32] that this very fact was one of the reasons why some of that
[00:02:36] company did not enter university, failed the
[00:02:38] CT, did not get the profession they dreamed of and did not become successful
[00:02:42] and happy in life. So, there is no place for smartphones
[00:02:45] in school, here it seems to me there is nothing
[00:02:49] even to discuss. As for the new search regulations,
[00:02:52] I dug into my memory to recall what I used to bring to school, despite the fact
[00:02:56] that I was a good student and not a hooligan. My parents will probably be surprised now: well,
[00:03:00] what can you do, Dad, Mom, hello to you, at different times I
[00:03:03] brought a small knife to school, a larger knife, a folding penknife,
[00:03:07] a butterfly knife, because back then it was particularly fashionable, also
[00:03:11] at different times I had a brass knuckle in my backpack, a gas
[00:03:14] canister found somewhere, before the New Year, a small pocket of my backpack was
[00:03:18] more or less always stuffed with firecrackers, for which, of course, a lighter was needed,
[00:03:22] and I always had one, although this is, of course,
[00:03:25] not normal and should not be, especially today.
[00:03:28] Current children seem to have it harder than us, because their little
[00:03:32] heads are overloaded with the internet, which they constantly sit on,
[00:03:36] they can read who knows what and listen to who knows whom,
[00:03:39] and an unstable child's psyche can fail. While
[00:03:43] on social networks, some Belarusian parents actively
[00:03:47] discussed the horror happening in schools with this total
[00:03:51] police control, in neighboring Russia, where exactly the same
[00:03:54] children and exactly the same parents exist, on September 1st, in
[00:03:58] Krasnoyarsk Krai, a...
[00:04:09] This does not mean that something is worse in Russia, it means that
[00:04:13] something similar could have happened in Belarus, but it didn't
[00:04:17] and won't, because we have, as some like to wring their
[00:04:20] hands, a police state, for
[00:04:23] which most adequate parents actually thank the police,
[00:04:27] because if something similar were to
[00:04:31] happen to us, the same people who were indignant about the new search
[00:04:35] procedure in schools would discuss with the same zeal
[00:04:38] why the tragedy happened, how the school and police allowed
[00:04:42] it, and when will all this end? They have this trick of
[00:04:45] wringing their hands and suffering over any issue, even
[00:04:49] in support of conflicting events. Dear
[00:04:53] parents, the list of items prohibited in school: weapons,
[00:04:56] ammunition, stabbing and cutting objects, pyrotechnics, flammable
[00:05:00] liquids, matches, lighters, self-defense means, for example, gas
[00:05:04] canisters, alcohol, drugs, tobacco products, including
[00:05:07] electronic smoking systems, and I assure you, every
[00:05:11] homeroom teacher knows or reasonably suspects which
[00:05:14] of his students might have something from this list in their backpack, but if
[00:05:18] before the teacher had to independently demand that
[00:05:21] the student hand it over, and children, of course, would put up
[00:05:25] a fight, argue, swear and get on the teacher's nerves,
[00:05:28] now the teacher just needs to signal the police officer on duty that
[00:05:32] these kids might have something forbidden with them. That's it, then
[00:05:35] the search is conducted by a person in uniform, whom you can't really
[00:05:39] argue with. After two or three such incidents at school,
[00:05:42] word-of-mouth by October, I assure you, all the hooligans of all
[00:05:46] schools in the country will be afraid to bring anything dangerous to class,
[00:05:50] and the goal of the introduction will be achieved. And to those who are against
[00:05:53] it, I will answer subjectively: there are about a million schoolchildren in Belarus.
[00:05:56] If on one side of the scale is searching them, even every single one, every day,
[00:06:00] and on the other, the danger of at least one child getting a knife to the rib
[00:06:04] in some teenage brawl, at least one eye theoretically shot out with an airsoft
[00:06:07] or traumatic gun by a boy during a break, at least one
[00:06:11] girl having a finger torn off by a boy's firecracker from a suitor who didn't
[00:06:14] come up with a better way to get her attention, not to mention, God forbid,
[00:06:18] a tragedy involving the death
[00:06:21] of a child. If it is necessary to search
[00:06:25] all a million schoolchildren in the country
[00:06:28] every day for this, it must be done, although it will be more
[00:06:32] than enough if, as is currently the case in Belarus, searches are conducted selectively,
[00:06:35] upon reasonable suspicion, at the signal of a teacher.
[00:06:38] This is all very right, and this is very much for safety in...
[00:07:43] on another continent, but instead of us deciding what to do
[00:07:46] on our own continent, we are more or less
[00:07:50] waiting for what some external forces will say about this,
[00:07:54] starting with representatives of the country that actually provoked
[00:07:57] this military conflict. This is not good for China, nor for Russia,
[00:08:01] nor for economically and politically strong Germany
[00:08:04] or France, but somehow it has become the norm in the world, and something
[00:08:08] definitely needs to be done about it, which is what Alexander Lukashenka
[00:08:12] says. It is possible and necessary to criticize NATO, it is possible and necessary to say that in general, especially before
[00:08:15] Trump's arrival and the escalation of relations between Washington and Brussels,
[00:08:19] the North Atlantic Alliance was a geopolitical dictatorship where
[00:08:22] the USA dictates what to do, and the rest meekly agree,
[00:08:26] but it was still a powerful, manageable center of power.
[00:08:29] The hegemon says: we are imposing sanctions, all others instantly
[00:08:33] comply. Support for some war goes in cascades
[00:08:36] of group statements, and increased military spending, the deployment
[00:08:40] of military force to this conflict zone. If anything
[00:08:43] doesn't suit one of the NATO members, all other
[00:08:46] allies immediately step in for them. The goals are often
[00:08:50] monstrous, but the mechanism itself works at a high
[00:08:53] level, which, to be frank, other unions and
[00:08:57] associations lack. The SCO
[00:09:00] is demonstrably a non-military alliance, as are BRICS and many
[00:09:03] others, but if we talk about the economy, it's the same thing,
[00:09:06] unified, commanded, and massive pressure from the West on
[00:09:10] Russia and Belarus, and what's there to say? There is a lack of unity in our
[00:09:13] alliances; weak countries, medium, strong, they all look out
[00:09:17] for their own interests first, and allies are
[00:09:21] asked to understand and forgive them. The further we go, the more obvious
[00:09:24] it becomes that this cannot continue. Even those countries that
[00:09:27] tried to sit on two chairs are coming to the conclusion that this process
[00:09:31] is not the most pleasant and somehow does not lead to the desired
[00:09:35] result even for them. The nominal current
[00:09:38] security architecture, represented primarily
[00:09:41] by the UN and its Security Council, well, everyone
[00:09:45] understands perfectly that it not only doesn't work, but has even
[00:09:48] collapsed with a deafening crash. The longer there is no
[00:09:51] adequate counterbalance with adequate unity in the world,
[00:09:55] the more often new military conflicts and new economic confrontations
[00:09:59] will occur on the planet, of which there have already been a lot in recent years.
[00:10:03] In essence, this is what Alexander Lukashenka is saying, and everyone is saying
[00:10:06] it, only he is doing it loudly at the highest political level.
[00:10:10] Nominally, the SCO is half of the
[00:10:14] economy, potentially the SCO, which includes China, Russia, India, Iran, and other
[00:10:18] strong countries, is a dominator on the planet, but in fact, in
[00:10:22] the organization itself, there is no unity yet, from which...
[00:10:57] we are already afraid to say why, for some reason. Naturally, the President of Belarus' job is to protect the national
[00:11:01] interests of his country and his people. Naturally, Alexander
[00:11:04] Lukashenka is primarily concerned that if
[00:11:07] sanctions are suddenly imposed against Belarus by someone, all partners in the SCO
[00:11:11] stand up tall and declare, ready to execute this, "Don't dare
[00:11:15] pressure Minsk, otherwise we will unleash such retaliatory measures
[00:11:18] that you won't like it." If we are forbidden to fly to the West and they don't fly
[00:11:22] from there to us, the answer is, "no problem, then we will push
[00:11:26] Western companies off some routes and give them to Minsk." Banking restrictions
[00:11:29] are introduced against Russia, okay, then everyone in the SCO answers unanimously,
[00:11:33] "and then we will introduce an increasing coefficient for sanctioners on
[00:11:37] operations on our territory, so that you don't get away with it," and so
[00:11:41] on and so forth. Well, it's clear that NATO and the European Union are much deeper
[00:11:44] alliances with history, but they need to be caught
[00:11:47] up with. Of course, one can smile that our opponents,
[00:11:51] well, yes, they periodically make loud, general statements. Countries
[00:13:55] do this regularly, because their gold in London, in one
[00:13:58] of the world's leading financial centers, is more convenient for swap
[00:14:02] operations and for other investment activities.
[00:14:05] Yes, in general, according to established practice, if
[00:14:08] a country wants to buy gold for its reserves, and there is a seller
[00:14:12] who is not against the deal, for example, Britain, the deal is concluded,
[00:14:16] but physically the gold, legally belonging to the one
[00:14:19] who bought it, continues to lie in the seller's vaults. At a
[00:14:23] basic level, it's silly, but in global terms, this was
[00:14:26] considered normal. Three years later, Hugo Chávez decided
[00:14:30] to return Venezuela's gold from all over the world to his country.
[00:14:34] Due to the predicted crisis in the US and EU, but why
[00:14:38] should Caracas report to and give reasons to get back
[00:14:41] its own gold? It was about 160 tons
[00:14:45] of ingots, of which 31 tons still remained in
[00:14:48] Great Britain, because London refused to return
[00:14:52] their gold to Venezuela, citing the policy of allegedly illegitimate. Nicolas Madu,
[00:15:12] but London still didn't return it and didn't, because it conveniently
[00:15:16] started considering Juan Guaidó as the allegedly legitimate
[00:15:20] leader of Venezuela, 4 days after this comrade declared
[00:15:24] himself allegedly temporary...
[00:15:37] The Central Bank of Venezuela sued, but of course, the most
[00:15:40] democratic and allegedly correct judicial system of Great Britain
[00:15:44] did not satisfy this claim. In June of this year, a tragedy
[00:15:48] of historical proportions occurred in Venezuela. Two earthquakes claimed
[00:15:51] the lives of over 6,000 people, 22,000 buildings collapsed,
[00:15:55] some cities were almost completely wiped off the face of the earth. For
[00:15:58] the country's recovery, Venezuela needs money, a lot of money. And this
[00:16:02] issue even united political opponents there.
[00:16:06] Caracas, in the person of Delcy Rodríguez, who temporarily leads the country
[00:16:09] after the US kidnapped and exported Nicolas Maduro, on behalf
[00:16:13] of all political forces in the country appealed to London: return
[00:16:17] our gold to us. An official letter was even written to King Charles
[00:16:20] III asking for help. I take off my hat, the Caracas authorities even went
[00:16:24] to the humiliation for the sake of their people, asking
[00:16:27] an overseas king to help them get back their own gold. But even
[00:16:30] after that, nothing happened, as in the famous meme,
[00:16:34] nothing, just nothing, and it is unlikely
[00:16:37] that it will ever happen, because
[00:16:40] as long as Venezuelan gold is in Great Britain, London can
[00:16:43] influence Caracas's policies, twist their arms, promise to return
[00:16:47] the ingots for certain necessary decisions, but then deceive them again and put forward
[00:16:51] ever new conditions. Conclusions have been drawn by everyone in the world.
[00:16:54] On March 14, 2022, the President signed a decree on
[00:16:58] additional measures to ensure the stable functioning
[00:17:01] of the economy, in the development of which the government and the National
[00:17:05] Bank of Belarus adopted a resolution on the procedure for operations and
[00:17:08] settlements with measured ingots and with precious stones,
[00:17:12] in accordance with the norms of this resolution, by order
[00:17:16] of the Ministry of Finance, the Gomel Kristall holding began to produce
[00:17:19] its own measured ingots, small ones right away, with denominations
[00:17:23] of 1, 20, and 50 g, but this is only the beginning. In November 2024,
[00:17:26] Alexander Lukashenka actually visited Kristall, where he instructed
[00:17:30] them to import substitute the production of gold measured ingots. The quote
[00:17:34] then was: "So that we don't import anything from Switzerland."
[00:17:37] I assume that this is primarily because at any moment Switzerland can
[00:17:41] refuse to sell us what it sold before, or even
[00:17:44] refuse to give us what we actually bought and already paid for,
[00:17:48] but where do we get the gold itself for our measured ingots and for
[00:17:52] our gold and foreign exchange reserves? The fact is that a month
[00:17:55] before the visit to Kristall, in October 2024, with the exact
[00:17:59] same leader of Laos, Alexander Lukashenka had already spoken about
[00:18:02] the prospects of joint gold mining, this was on the sidelines
[00:18:05] of the BRICS summit in Kazan. That is, it seems, the president
[00:18:09] conducts preliminary negotiations with a partner, he flies to
[00:18:13] Belarus, then he goes to give instructions to produce his own measured
[00:18:16] ingots and not depend on anyone, as happened with Venezuela, already
[00:18:20] understanding that Laos will provide us with gold for these ingots.
[00:18:23] Last week, it seems, the project entered a new stage,
[00:18:27] especially since the President of Laos stated that Belarus has
[00:18:31] good experience in gold mining, but we don't actually
[00:18:34] mine it ourselves, so where does the experience come from?
[00:18:37] Welcome to Africa, relations with which our
[00:18:41] president is successfully developing. In Africa, gold is plentiful,
[00:18:44] and it, especially the unmined gold in the ground, is not more needed
[00:18:48] than food, medicine, agricultural machinery, and much
[00:18:52] more that Minsk offers. Surely with most
[00:18:55] partners in Africa, Belarus is talking about the same joint
[00:18:59] gold mining as with Laos, we are already mining it there, what's
[00:19:02] there to say? I think we can also introduce mutual settlements
[00:19:06] for our conditional tractors there, especially since Western banks are trying to put a
[00:19:10] spoke in the wheels for both Africa and us. Yes, with Myanmar, for example,
[00:19:14] we have become closer friends, guess what Myanmar
[00:19:16] has a lot of? That's right, gold. Everyone noticed our special
[00:19:20] relations with Uzbekistan, and Tashkent is actually the eighth
[00:19:24] largest gold producer on the planet, in sixth place
[00:19:27] in this ranking is such a wonderful country as Ghana, whose president
[00:19:31] visited Minsk in June of this year.
[00:19:34] Indonesia is tenth, and was visited by Lukashenka
[00:19:38] in July of this year. in the ranking of the world's
[00:19:42] largest gold producers, our two main trading and,
[00:19:45] even more importantly, political partners. I think everyone
[00:19:49] understood my logic well, but still, what is very important,
[00:19:52] the ultimate main goal of the president, in my opinion, is not super-profits
[00:19:56] from gold, although that is also good. The main thing is that
[00:19:59] Belarusian gold is physically in Belarus and in sufficient
[00:20:03] quantities, because it is one of the guarantors of the country's sovereignty
[00:20:06] and independence. For at least a decade, so
[00:20:09] that no London, Washington, Brussels, or anyone
[00:20:12] else, would dare try to manipulate us at their
[00:20:15] discretion, as they have done, are doing, and will do with other
[00:20:19] countries similar to ours. Belarus will not
[00:20:23] allow this trick to be pulled on itself,
[00:20:26] thanks to the efforts, of course, of the president. My name is Igor
[00:20:30] Tur, this was my propaganda.
[00:22:20] not a drop of blood, to be completely honest, for us the standard has always
[00:22:23] been Western Europe, the pinnacle of well-being, but their
[00:22:27] well-being is not in anthropological political
[00:22:30] postmodernism, and we are gradually and confidently
[00:22:33] improving the life of our country, albeit at the speed of a combine
[00:22:36] harvesting grain. But now our media policy is not to frighten
[00:22:40] Belarusians with threats, let them rejoice, clap, root
[00:22:44] calmly work, but at the same time, we should not forget
[00:22:47] to be grateful to God, parents, homeland, and...