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00:00:30How difficult it is, it's not easy to extract
00:00:34truly important information from the information flow, it's not
00:00:38easy to delve deeper, and it's even harder to ask honest
00:00:41questions and soberly look at ourselves, but
00:00:44this is the only right path if you want to have your own
00:00:47opinion, and not settle for what's imposed. My name
00:00:51is Alena Syrova, and personally, I see
00:00:54it this way.
00:01:03Offhand, what impressed me from the news, well,
00:01:06let's say, over the last few days, regarding the domestic
00:01:09agenda, the prospect for negligent workers
00:01:12of the agricultural sector, announced at the selector and
00:01:15articulated by the president several more times after:
00:01:19"Go, guys, work. If there's no work, well, we'll send
00:01:22you to the army for re-education, they'll get acquainted with
00:01:25mosquitoes, midges, gnats, various creatures in the forest, then they'll understand that
00:01:29working in the field... is really bad." Also,
00:01:32I dare say, you might have been surprised by the story with the foreign
00:01:35taxi driver who offended a Belarusian woman, well, at least that's how it was
00:01:39presented to the public. At one point,
00:01:43the driver starts playing music very loudly, so loudly that
00:01:47you're like in some club, and
00:01:50I asked, I said, please turn it down, to which
00:01:54he replied to Yulia and me, "Shut your mouth."
00:01:57I was the first one. I didn't hear it, I
00:02:01said, "What did he say?" He says, "Shut your mouth." he said. I, my
00:02:05eyes were just like this, bulging out, I was like, "What do you mean? How do
00:02:08you talk to passengers? You're at work."
00:02:11To which he tells me, "I'm not working."
00:02:14In fact, he speaks Russian very badly, this is not
00:02:17Russian. At
00:02:21this moment, I say, "I'm going to film everything on
00:02:24my phone." because such communication
00:02:27is unacceptable. He... started showing us
00:02:31f, uh, saying some
00:02:34super bad words, at some point,
00:02:37he started waving his hands like this at my
00:02:40phone, the phone falls
00:02:43and falls on my knees, I bow
00:02:46my head like this and say, "Yulia, film it!" And he just takes me, just so you
00:02:50understand, from the front - he hits me in the
00:02:53face. I just, well, after this
00:02:56situation, I don't even know how one can take a taxi.
00:03:01And I have some kind of panic fear
00:03:04of everyone now. The story has already received
00:03:08a continuation and a preliminary legal assessment. More on that
00:03:11in a few moments. Now about what unites non-youth in
00:03:15uniform and the incident with the foreigner.
00:03:18This is the reaction and the parallel reality of these messages in
00:03:22social networks. With the migrant, it turned out very multi-faceted.
00:03:25Firstly, mainly, I am not
00:03:28justifying and... not defending anyone, but the Minister
00:03:32of Internal Affairs, commenting on the situation, said the following:
00:03:35"Indeed, the foreign citizen who came to
00:03:39our country is a student of one of
00:03:42the universities, a guy who wants
00:03:46to study, wants to earn a penny, and
00:03:49naturally, works part-time as a taxi driver. They started investigating,
00:03:53the guy immediately repented, says, 'The girl
00:03:56immediately introduced herself as a blogger. It turns out that all
00:03:59the way they were driving, they were filming this guy on a mobile
00:04:02phone.' They don't know Russian very well,
00:04:05he asked: 'Put away the phone,' he said, asked several times,
00:04:09but then, it seems, his nerves gave way,
00:04:12he hit with his hand, but wanted to knock out the phone.
00:04:16As a result, she filed a report,
00:04:20yes, we will certainly investigate his actions,
00:04:23but as soon as this appeared on the Internet, all citizens of the Republic
00:04:27of Belarus, and probably not only the Republic of Belarus, those who read it, in
00:04:31the comments write, 'Deport him,
00:04:34imprison him,' and so on. Every situation
00:04:37needs to be understood." It's strange that Belarusians, who
00:04:41pride themselves worldwide on their kindness and tact,
00:04:44and law-abiding nature, decided to film someone without
00:04:48consent. Listen, you wouldn't be delighted either,
00:04:52right? We generally aren't supposed to do
00:04:54that, regardless of whether it's a guest or a compatriot, and yes,
00:04:58hitting someone in Belarus is also forbidden. Hence, the second
00:05:02disturbing trend: before calling
00:05:06102, right there on the spot, the girls had
00:05:09the desire to film and then post it. Well,
00:05:12probably, in order to register an offense, a video recorder
00:05:16can do that, if the taxi driver is in the registry, of course, he
00:05:20should be. Otherwise, why not
00:05:23stir up a fuss, especially since the police will react to everything,
00:05:27right? They're even online, nearby. Do you have some kind of system,
00:05:31or do you react to absolutely everything? We react to everything,
00:05:34absolutely everything, and not only what is related to the internal affairs bodies
00:05:38or internal troops, because our main task is to help
00:05:42people. And I want to tell you that there is very strong interaction and support from
00:05:45the investigative committee. But is this good, is it
00:05:49right, are we spoiling society? In the comments,
00:05:52they are already demanding a spectacle and video with a recorder, forgetting that there
00:05:56are legal norms. That's how social networks blur
00:05:59boundaries. If before such conflicts could be provoked by opinion
00:06:03leaders, millionaire bloggers, then now any Joe Schmo from a fake
00:06:06account can add fuel to the fire. And boom. Yes,
00:06:09they will find him, but one must not underestimate the consequences.
00:06:17Social networks today are a digital showcase, a place where people post
00:06:21selfies, film reviews, lifestyle, share opinions, originally
00:06:24created for information exchange, reliable connection and communication,
00:06:28the internet has become not only a useful tool for humanity, but
00:06:31a dangerous weapon. Often one click, a random post or a angry
00:06:35comment from an ordinary user blows up the real world more
00:06:39than a combat projectile. We
00:06:41should give our Filipino maids one day off a
00:06:45week and not take their passports, and if they decide
00:06:48to leave the country, I am outraged. In
00:06:512018, a blogger from Kuwait criticized a new law
00:06:55giving domestic workers more rights. The post caused a colossal
00:06:58international scandal, provoking a mass evacuation of Filipinos.
00:07:02Major brands terminated contracts with the influencer, advertisers left,
00:07:06and this is not the first and far from the last time that online publications
00:07:09led to serious consequences. Once,
00:07:12airline baggage handlers damaged a musician's guitar during a flight, and
00:07:16didn't even pay compensation. The artist then posted
00:07:20a video online, where he mocked
00:07:21this situation.
00:07:27The result: the company lost about $180 million
00:07:31in just a few days. Obviously, such results would not have occurred if
00:07:35the post hadn't gained traction, and it gained traction for several
00:07:38reasons. This is how algorithms work, a potentially popular publication
00:07:41is evaluated immediately, and negative messages are always trending, and
00:07:45they even attract those who have never been interested in the topic. This
00:07:49phenomenon is explainable from a psychological point of view: we only hear one
00:07:52source that expressed a certain emotion, we get emotionally infected, and
00:07:56somehow get involved. The group, well, it seems, does not
00:08:00make mistakes, although this is certainly not true, it is just an illusion. If there is a lot of this information,
00:08:03if they talk about it, then like a snowball, it actually latches on, even
00:08:07if I don't understand this topic, and other people react, it's also important for me to say
00:08:11something, that I don't want to be... different from others, this is also a quite good
00:08:14safety mechanism, but if in the airline case there was at least
00:08:18a fair subtext, there are not uncommon cases when an unfounded and
00:08:22untrue post cost not only reputation loss, but waves of violence and
00:08:26riots.
00:08:29In 2024, in Great Britain, there was a knife
00:08:32attack on a children's dance studio, where children died, and then someone
00:08:36posted a fake post that the attacker was a refugee. A
00:08:40wave of anti-immigrant protests immediately swept the country, turning
00:08:43into clashes with the police, attacks, but it turned out that
00:08:46the crime was committed by a local resident. Behind the mask of a random
00:08:50eyewitness or an ordinary citizen increasingly hide professional
00:08:53political technologists and bot factories, such special operations from
00:08:57the other side of the screen. Social networks and information
00:09:00tools are the main way to destabilize
00:09:04civil society and bring it into a state, well, if you will,
00:09:07of revolutionary frenzy. Then, however,
00:09:10sobriety sets in,
00:09:13and as a result, society receives
00:09:16psychological trauma, which, by the way, the same political
00:09:20technologists use for many more
00:09:24years. So, such experiments are certainly very
00:09:27dangerous and should be rightly recognized as crimes against humanity.
00:09:30There are many examples, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, which arose
00:09:34in the USA due to one video or the case in Myanmar, where
00:09:37interethnic strife was ignited by a post by a local resident. Also,
00:09:41the Arab... The wave of color revolutions swept through, partly
00:09:44thanks to a well-known messenger. An ordinary user created a page in
00:09:48memory of a deceased guy. Over time, the local group turned into the main
00:09:52logistical headquarters of the revolution. A smartphone in hand became a remote
00:09:55control for anger. Not only the Arab Spring. We can recall
00:09:59November 1, 2024, when suddenly
00:10:02the same canopy, for example, collapsed
00:10:05at the Novi Sad railway station in Serbia. It was just a pretext
00:10:09to stir up the youth. It's all aimed at the youth, therefore. All
00:10:12the color revolutions, whether it's precisely in the territories
00:10:16of the Arab Spring, where they swept almost all of Africa, and even
00:10:20the Middle East, or what concerns Serbia, what concerns our Republic
00:10:24of Belarus. This is all, first of all, a consequence of the fact that
00:10:27they are working to find weak spots, what they can use to hook
00:10:30people, and any information drive can be
00:10:34used from a minimal to a global
00:10:36scale. In a world where everything is digitized, you need to filter not
00:10:39only photos, but your own thoughts. The word today is the most expensive
00:10:43commodity and the most accessible weapon, because if before, to start
00:10:47a conflict, resources were needed, now it's smartphones and viral
00:10:50text. So where are the boundaries between reality and something calculated
00:10:54by someone? Continuing the topic of reaction, the president's
00:10:58message to those, to those, sorry, who do
00:11:01not want to perform their work well, is also being discussed.
00:11:04Narratives? Yes, it's just that there's a deficit in the army, yes, there's just
00:11:08a shortage of personnel in the agricultural sector, all in that vein. Well, the logical question is,
00:11:12why the army then, and not just the forest and forestry? There,
00:11:16they say, there are even dying species
00:11:17of professions.
00:11:24But... Those personnel who are in the forest, by the way, can be
00:11:28and are, in fact, a reserve for the armed
00:11:31forces. Are you on record,
00:11:35ready to take up arms if necessary?
00:11:38Well, in any case, of course, I am ready, because this is our
00:11:41country, our homeland, hunters have always
00:11:45been ardent
00:11:47defenders
00:11:49of their homeland, always went in the first ranks, with weapons, I've had
00:11:53them for 20 to 5 years
00:11:56of handling, naturally, I know how to handle them, yes, we are
00:12:00registered, and territorial defense, in
00:12:04its time,
00:12:07conducted training with us, well, the training
00:12:10of PMC Wagner representatives, yes,
00:12:14they taught a lot, because after all, it's, well,
00:12:18it's a whole science, yes, so, if God
00:12:21forbid something happens, of course, we will go in the first ranks. In any district
00:12:25there are some strategic objects, we know the mechanism of action,
00:12:29this information was brought to our attention, and if
00:12:32you look wider, this is about rational resource
00:12:36management, both human, there is no superfluous
00:12:38knowledge and competence, and natural, speaking of which, in
00:12:42Belarus, the main forest, and the person responsible for it since Thursday
00:12:46is new. Now it is Sergey
00:12:49Uldinovich, well, he will have to overcome what his
00:12:52predecessor could not, partly the elements.
00:12:55As it seems to me, well, what I observe, flying
00:12:59over Belarus, we don't
00:13:03always clear this forest on time. The forest is grown
00:13:06precisely so that after 80-90 or 60
00:13:10years it can be cut down and put to use for
00:13:13building housing or furniture, for example, this is very
00:13:17important. I have made remarks many times about
00:13:20wind-felled and wind-broken
00:13:23problems. So, the new minister said that he will
00:13:27work on processing, including for
00:13:30export, goods with high added value, but
00:13:34for now, we still have firewood,
00:13:37we hardly consume that much, likely not, yes, today
00:13:41this amount of this firewood
00:13:44is not in demand, so the order, the priority, so that
00:13:48it doesn't spoil in storage, that which was harvested earlier, as of
00:13:52today, yes, given that the amount of
00:13:56energy sources from local types of fuel is increasing, this is burning wood chips, this is
00:13:59pellets, the remnants are no longer increasing, at least they are slowly
00:14:03but surely decreasing. This
00:14:07problem, of course, still needs to be worked on, well, it must be understood, this
00:14:10is not a one-day task. Out of curiosity, I monitored
00:14:14the situation with firewood, and you know, some places are
00:14:17even ready to sell last year's firewood, but we'll talk about
00:14:21that in October, November, when by tradition the masses will remember.
00:15:25We know how to do things qualitatively and deliciously, we
00:15:28have everything to feel confident in tomorrow,
00:15:32but it's not like that everywhere. Global hunger, a cliché, we
00:15:35might even feel it's imposed
00:15:37and a fabricated bogeyman, but it's worth looking a little further
00:15:41than our continent. And if we analyze the events of recent years
00:15:45and months, then
00:15:56over the last 5-7 years, the global agri-food
00:15:59system has faced a large number
00:16:03of challenges and shocks, which have led to the fact that today,
00:16:07266 million
00:16:09people in 47 countries worldwide are in a situation
00:16:13of acute hunger, while global
00:16:16food security mechanisms have not
00:16:19worked and have not been able to solve
00:16:22the growing food problem. The international community
00:16:26still, in solving food security
00:16:29problems, relies on financing emergency
00:16:33food aid, which, by the way, is
00:16:36decreasing. In the period from 2022 to
00:16:402025, the volume
00:16:42of financing for food aid worldwide
00:16:46decreased by 60%.
00:16:57The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz made it almost
00:17:00impossible to supply
00:17:03fertilizers and energy carriers
00:17:06through this channel.
00:17:13Asia and the European Union. For some
00:17:16goods, dependence on this supply channel
00:17:20was 50% or more. Moreover,
00:17:24the Hormuz crisis happened precisely during
00:17:27a crucial period for global agriculture, when
00:17:30the sowing campaign was beginning. And in
00:17:34this regard, the increased cost of fertilizers,
00:17:37lubricants, led to an increase in
00:17:40the costs for agricultural producers. I will give you such data from international
00:17:44statistics: in April 2026,
00:17:47the price of carbamide on the world
00:17:50market was twice as high
00:17:54as in April 2025,
00:17:56and the price of triple superphosphate
00:18:00increased by 30%.
00:18:03Of course, prices for food also reacted to such an increase
00:18:06in fertilizer and energy prices. According to
00:18:09data from the Food and Agriculture
00:18:12Organization (FAO), the food price
00:18:15index for the first half of 2026
00:18:19rose by six
00:18:22percentage points. This is a lot. First
00:18:25of all, such a rise occurred due to prices for
00:18:29meat, grain and vegetable oil.
00:18:32I note that the price index for vegetable oil increased by
00:18:3623%. Farmers
00:18:39in the European Union also experienced
00:18:42an unprecedented increase in costs,
00:18:45which accordingly reduced the competitiveness of their
00:18:48products and is reducing their production potential, as evidenced
00:18:52by statistical
00:18:53data.
00:19:02In the current situation, for the Republic of Belarus,
00:19:06it is important not only to gain an advantage from
00:19:09the favorable market conditions of the world food market, when
00:19:13prices are rising and demand for our products is growing,
00:19:16but also to occupy niches that
00:19:20are being freed up by countries that have suffered from
00:19:23the Middle East conflict. Our
00:19:26Belarusian model of ensuring food
00:19:29security, our doctrine, it
00:19:32is built primarily on a high level
00:19:35of self-sufficiency in basic types of agricultural
00:19:39products, raw materials, and food. This
00:19:42allows us, regardless of any changes in external
00:19:45market conditions, to guarantee food
00:19:48security for our population
00:19:50and to carry out stable export supplies
00:19:53of food to the world market. According to the World
00:19:57Food and Agriculture Organization, in the Republic
00:20:00of Belarus, the normative diet of the
00:20:03population is provided by its own resources at 100%.
00:20:0740% and moreover, for
00:20:1099% of the republic's population,
00:20:13a healthy diet is available. Of course, in the agricultural sector, there are not many
00:20:17labor resources, and the whole world is moving towards mechanization, firstly,
00:20:21because it's speed, secondly, people are no longer willing,
00:20:24even for big money, as before, and don't want to
00:20:27engage in difficult physical labor in not the most comfortable
00:20:31conditions. I'm following foreign news
00:20:34now, observing, but... they're like
00:20:38tanks, non-stop,
00:20:41they're turning this straw, hay,
00:20:44silage this year, it's pleasant to watch, and I think, well,
00:20:48Karankevich made his own, and it's...
00:21:20not very, and mine and yours, not very much there, well, I don't have daughters,
00:21:24but for those who do, they won't go milk cows.
00:21:28Ilona smiles as if she's going to milk cows, well,
00:21:31let's see, if this is a matter of our food
00:21:34security, then it's quite understandable that we're concerned
00:21:38that our own people can provide it for
00:21:41themselves. Yes, it's not as simple as with the baler, especially
00:21:45since there are plenty of analogues in the world, even our Chinese friends can and
00:21:49do.
00:22:50region, well, to somehow accelerate our Bobruisk Agricultural Machinery
00:22:53to faster steps, or in extreme cases, you know, there is an enterprise
00:22:57Bobruisk Agricultural Machinery on the territory of the Brest region, well,
00:23:00we will set up an alternative production of another
00:23:03type of baler at this enterprise. So
00:23:06the question arises, why should we toil over our own, if everything
00:23:10is working out so perfectly? This
00:23:12is a matter of honor, if you will, and technological
00:23:15sovereignty, not everything is decided by cold calculation. Listen, well, it's
00:23:19like with flax. Everyone has seen the Belarusian coat of
00:23:21arms, so it is framed with golden
00:23:25ears of wheat, intertwined with clover and
00:23:28flax flowers. This is flax, those very blue field lakes,
00:23:32when it blooms, it's flax, beautiful, comfortable to wear,
00:23:35stylish, but capricious in cultivation and
00:23:38care. How we struggle with it every year! No, there are those
00:23:42who laugh at the phrase about pulling long-stemmed flax, but
00:23:46for those in the know, this process is not about pleasure at all.
00:23:51And we preserve our such demanding wealth, although
00:23:55there are analogues, why?
00:23:58We call flax northern silk. Behind this poetic
00:24:01name are years of selection, field work, workshops,
00:24:05machines. We are used to considering it part of our identity, but
00:24:09today on the shelves next to Belarusian flax, Chinese flax
00:24:11appears more and more often, and buyers take it. We
00:24:15are not rushing to conclusions, but the question arose: what is
00:24:19ours today? And most importantly, is it worth investing in it as much as
00:24:22we do? Everything begins at the Mogilev Regional
00:24:26Experimental Station, flax breeding has been going on here for
00:24:2970 years, during which time 27 varieties have been created,
00:24:33among the bestsellers are reliable Malakhit, sturdy Rubizh, they cover
00:24:36half of all flax fields in the country, but to create a variety
00:24:40takes at least 15 years, from the first crossbreeding to state
00:24:43trials, all for the fiber to be thin,
00:24:46flexible, strong. Two new varieties, Patriot and
00:25:20conditions yield an excellent harvest, but in Belarus they are prone to lodging,
00:25:24and the fiber content and its ultimate properties are inferior
00:25:27to our varieties. Therefore, breeders use the world gene pool in their
00:25:31work, crossing foreign samples with domestic ones, to
00:25:35take the best from them and create a variety ideally suited for our
00:25:38conditions.
00:25:41From breeding plots to a large field in the Gorki Lyon farm, this year
00:25:452,000 hectares were allocated for the crop.
00:25:4990% has already been pulled. Just over 160 hectares
00:25:52remain. Flax is not an easy crop; it needs a stable temperature of
00:25:5618 to 25°C, rainfall
00:25:59exactly on time, and after harvesting, it cannot be returned to the same field
00:26:02for at least 5-7 years, otherwise diseases accumulate.
00:26:06The main risks, well, when growing flax, if
00:26:09heavy rains occur before sprouting, then it will
00:26:12sprout poorly. During vegetation, of course,
00:26:16winds, rains, but during harvesting, this, of course,
00:26:20is the necessary amount of precipitation for retting.
00:26:23From the fields, the raw material goes to the factory, where two types of
00:26:27fiber are produced: long and short.
00:26:30to the Orsha flax mill.
00:26:33and 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
00:26:39a factory, but a holding company that controls the entire cycle from field
00:26:43to finished product. This year, we will complete the modernization
00:26:47of the first weaving factory, where we will process
00:26:50mostly short-staple flax fiber and obtain
00:26:54modern fabrics with the ability to produce
00:26:57blended fabrics, so that the fabric is more modern, so that the fabric
00:27:01is more...
00:27:06convenience and comfort - that's what consumers most often cite as an
00:27:09example when comparing our flax with Chinese flax. Their advantage is that they
00:27:13were able to make elastane. Elastane is great
00:27:17because it holds and prevents the fabric from
00:27:20stretching. Our fabrics, especially 100% linen, if
00:27:24it fits snugly and has a little tension, it can stretch. Chinese
00:27:28linen is convenient and accessible, but there's a nuance: for the money it's
00:27:32sold for, there's almost no real linen. It would seem that
00:27:35in such a case we have an advantage, but the market is structured differently:
00:27:38China is a huge technological country with powerful state
00:27:42support, they know how to promote their products, they offer
00:27:45a low price and do it so convincingly that the consumer rarely
00:27:49thinks about the composition, and today China is confidently moving up the
00:27:53price segment. If we do not hold our positions, we risk losing
00:27:57the market. For this not to happen, support is needed not only for the giants
00:28:00of light industry, but also for small businesses. For example, we are a brand that
00:28:04produces products entirely on
00:28:08Belarusian raw materials. Of course, I would like, that even in the procurement of
00:28:12materials, the priority should be ours, some financial
00:28:15support, then we will certainly be able to bypass
00:28:18the Chinese, that percentage on loans and taxes they
00:28:22have, it's not at all the same as ours, so they have very
00:28:25strong state support, until we are supported
00:28:29like that, we will lose. Now let's look at the export figures.
00:28:32Arkhangelsk Combine in 2025, over 100
00:28:35million dollars to 40 countries, Russia, China, Turkey, European
00:28:39countries, while the profitability of flax production in the best farms
00:28:42reaches 70%, is that a lot or a little, considering
00:28:46that the state annually increases support, is flax worth
00:28:50bothering with? Well, here it's more worth asking, can we afford
00:28:54to give it up? No, we can't. Flax
00:28:57is not just fabric, it's jobs, it's technological
00:29:00independence, it's our identity.
00:29:02And to preserve this, we need to continue to develop, then
00:29:06the northern silk has a future,
00:29:09such outdated brands as flax, we have many, and
00:29:13this is for what, and that can be bought, but if something
00:29:16changes in the usual or on the shelf in the store, God forbid,
00:29:19it disappears, then expect a wave on social networks,
00:29:23even if that person didn't buy it, and if they love it,
00:29:26it will be like with the children's preserves from the Orsha combine,
00:29:29please tell me, who knows, where
00:29:32did these MKK meat jars disappear? If
00:29:36you were looking for Orsha meat combine preserves, you can stop
00:29:39looking, the jar has been changed, a problem
00:29:42of problems. The Orsha combine is now under the wing of the Dzerzhinsky agro-combine,
00:29:46if you didn't know, of course, but the root of the external changes is still
00:29:50elsewhere. All people are looking, and we see on
00:29:53social media that they are asking where the tin can
00:29:56of baby food is, baby food was never produced
00:29:59in a tin can. There are special allowances, requirements for the production
00:30:03of children's meat puree, and an aluminum can was used
00:30:06there, aluminum packaging that was used in the production of local preserves was
00:30:10imported, meaning it was bought from outside. The aluminum
00:30:14market in the Russian Federation is monopolized
00:30:17by manufacturers who have their own views on the development of this
00:30:20story, and if you dig a little deeper,
00:30:24even among Russian producers
00:30:27of products in aluminum packaging, there was a resonance, especially among
00:30:31beer producers, due to the fact that aluminum prices in Russia
00:30:35are somehow tied to the London
00:30:38Metal Exchange, and price formation
00:30:42for Russian producers and
00:30:44for friendly producers is somehow
00:30:48at world prices, which are in no way connected and to some extent are
00:30:51speculative. We see how the situation in the world is developing
00:30:54today, how sanctions are acting and working,
00:30:58therefore, considering the
00:31:01tasks set. First of all, understanding that
00:31:04an enterprise that produces such an important product as baby
00:31:08food must be provided with domestic
00:31:11components, a decision was made within the framework
00:31:14of the program for... import substitution and rejection of
00:31:18third-party production, meaning
00:31:20outside the state, to switch to a domestic glass jar
00:31:24production, this certainly did not affect
00:31:27either the recipes or the filling
00:31:31of the jar, all recipes are preserved, but
00:31:34today they have a more modern look, a glass jar is still
00:31:38a neutral glass, a neutral material
00:31:41that does not contact food, does not change it.
00:31:45This means plus the convenience of heating, it is definitely
00:31:48more environmentally friendly, here there is a question of a formed
00:31:51habit,
00:32:00work is being done, first of all
00:32:03to maintain prices, here, of course, there are some aspects
00:32:06that we are working on with our large retail, but today an absolute
00:32:10understanding has been reached, so the end
00:32:14consumer will be... offered a clear, familiar product, yes, in
00:32:18a different package, but more recognizable, I believe,
00:32:21the information field of the glass jar will allow making
00:32:24the label brighter, more colorful, more
00:32:27readable, it's not that simple,
00:32:31you have to delve deeper, but you don't want to, because
00:32:34it's much simpler to do what is said, it's harder to do it with
00:32:38intelligence, with understanding, for what we want to achieve,
00:32:41we need to go where there will be a result. You don't need to
00:32:45show this to the public, to the president on TV and so on
00:32:49and so forth, no need, I have other
00:32:52methods of work, style of work, I see who does
00:32:55what, let's address these or those
00:32:59issues to the point, and don't
00:33:02promise what you cannot do, and what
00:33:05Belarus does not need today, I mean, starting from
00:33:09Russia and China, ending with Africa, we need to do
00:33:13only what we can. Today,
00:33:17it's hard to figure it out, not as hyped, maybe
00:33:20bright, but you know, stable.
00:33:36The key task of the state program 2630 is, first
00:33:40of all, the renovation and reformatting of our
00:33:44tourism industry. As we well know, yes, the economic
00:33:47block is now directly involved in the tourism industry, we built our vertical this
00:33:51way, that is, the Council of Ministers, we are directly subordinate to the Council of Ministers, then tourism
00:33:55departments have already been created in the economic committees of the regional executive committees of the Minsk
00:33:58city executive committee, this is our direct vertical, and in the regions there are already tourist
00:34:02information centers with which we work, that is, it is important
00:34:05for us to understand the economics of tourism, to clearly understand it,
00:34:08therefore the state program is such a very tiered
00:34:12work, first of all, we understand that we have demand.
00:34:27institutions, our medical services, rehabilitation,
00:34:31we see that they are almost 100% booked, even some of these
00:34:34premium-class sanatoriums are very busy, but at the same time, I will also
00:34:37share with you, it's very interesting, when we started looking at the statistics, we
00:34:41saw that in some sanatoriums the number of Belarusian
00:34:45vacationers is 60-65%, that is,
00:34:48it cannot be said that only foreigners vacation there, no, our citizens also willingly use
00:34:51these services, because it is a good opportunity to recover, that is,
00:34:55our medical services are indeed at a high level, so the state program
00:34:59is infrastructure, the state program is of course marketing, the state program is
00:35:03promoting our tourist product to the external contour, so we
00:35:07work with domestic tourism, we understand that from within, tourist flows
00:35:10need to be shown new tourist locations,
00:35:14you know, the most difficult thing, as this modest accumulated experience shows, is that the most difficult thing
00:35:18is to surprise a Belarusian who knows everything about the country, it's a little easier
00:35:21with foreigners, but I will emphasize again that after conducting
00:35:25such an inventory of tourist locations, we noticed
00:35:28that we really have a lot of everything, but very few people know about it,
00:35:31so we are working to increase awareness of those specific
00:35:35locations that simply did not receive sufficient information at
00:35:38the time, did not appear on the pages of any publications, were not included in textbooks, were not
00:35:42captured on film, we are conducting such an information campaign, that is,
00:35:45specifically in terms of digital marketing, we highlight, create video content and place it on our
00:35:49platforms, and of course, again, for us, personnel are very
00:35:52important, we understand that the tourism industry is now
00:35:56reformatted, we see that we need
00:35:59to train management personnel for the vertical, again, we
00:36:02need experience in terms of improving the quality of our services, mhm,
00:36:06we are also gradually working with very successful countries, and the head of state instructed
00:36:10us to study the experience of the Persian Gulf countries, which indeed make a very significant
00:36:14contribution to tourism GDP, we also review
00:36:17these points and gradually build this tiered
00:36:20work.
00:36:30Let's remember that our foreign policy doctrine
00:36:33is on a tractor. On the one hand, they are already accustomed to our Belarusians and
00:36:36BelAZ trucks since Soviet times, on the other hand, bang, and there is already
00:36:40China, our all-weather, strategic
00:36:43solution is one, to develop localization. We see how the head
00:36:46of state overcomes thousands of kilometers, intercultural
00:36:50differences, and you know, this power of geopolitical position,
00:36:53one could have given up, but no, he fights for interests.
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