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00:00:00from Vietnam, Myanmar and
00:00:02Laos. In August we are expecting a large delegation
00:00:06from the People's Republic of China. My first impression of Belarus
00:00:10is exclusively positive. I came here for the first time, I
00:00:13like it very much here, I am surprised how clean the air is and
00:00:17how green the forests are. Belarusian children are very friendly, I have
00:00:21already made friends with them, they are very active, kind, easy
00:00:25to communicate with, and there are also interesting sports games and
00:00:29competitions at the camp. Annually
00:00:35since 2017, funds are
00:00:38allocated on the instructions of the head of state. During this time, more
00:00:41than 2,500 children from
00:00:4440 countries have rested and received treatment in Belarus.
00:01:05We remember that our foreign political doctrine
00:01:08is on a tractor. On the one hand, they are already accustomed to our Belarusians and
00:01:11Belazs, since Soviet times, on the other hand, suddenly, it's
00:01:15China. Our all-weather and strategic way out is to
00:01:19develop localization. We see how the head of state
00:01:22overcomes thousands of kilometers of intercultural differences, and
00:01:26you know, this strength of geopolitical position, one could have resigned oneself.
00:01:30Well, that's it, no, he fights for the country's interests, well, let's
00:01:33support him, because everyone wants to see the country sovereign, peaceful
00:01:36and secure. One of the criteria for the chosenness of the planetary
00:01:40elite is life in nature, in the village, in our opinion, the president
00:01:44always calls on Belarusians to return to their roots, so we live off
00:01:47our own bread, singing songs under a peaceful sky,
00:01:51but unfortunately, evil winds try to extinguish
00:01:54those life-giving rays, but no,
00:01:58our Mound of Glory, a beacon...
00:03:44Hello viewer, my name is Igor Tur, this is my propaganda,
00:03:48let's start, I will start today from afar and figuratively,
00:03:52now they will probably smile, maybe grumble somewhere in a whisper,
00:03:55there will be two TV operators who are here with me in the studio,
00:03:59about 12 years ago, when I first started working on television, these two
00:04:03rogues could have spun me around to not strain too much
00:04:06for their stable salary. If I had given them
00:04:10today's technical task then, they would have easily
00:04:13bombarded me with arguments that it was impossible, or at least,
00:04:17it was very difficult, long and expensive. They would surely have used
00:04:20smart words and acronyms, like the DPI is not right,
00:04:24the contour light won't give depth, they won't be able
00:04:26to zoom. I would scratch my head and answer, well... Okay,
00:04:30then let's not, and I would leave, and they would happily kick the bucket and
00:04:34rejoice at how cleverly they fooled the young correspondent. The same thing could have
00:04:38been done by the third person in the sound studio, the director, referring
00:04:41to some excessive reverberation, and then the video
00:04:44editing engineer would claim that rendering would have errors,
00:04:48the bitrate was unsuitable and he didn't have the footage ordered. But after
00:04:52a dozen years at ONT, today I can tell them with understanding that they
00:04:56are talking nonsense to me, just to do nothing and not strain themselves.
00:05:00Even if we imagine that they really don't know how to perform this assigned
00:05:03task, well then open your notebooks and write down
00:05:07what cameras to take, with what lenses, what settings
00:05:10to enter, and so on. And your stories about
00:05:14reverberation and about renders, well, you probably leave them to some
00:05:17interns, although it's better to help them, not
00:05:20show off. I still have to watch,
00:05:24for example, the content of our fugitives at work, when they
00:05:27say something supposedly sensational about how Belarusian
00:05:30television is arranged, that Tur receives instructions, or everything
00:05:34must be coordinated, how our editing is supposedly arranged,
00:05:37filming, and generally our life. It's head-scratching, because,
00:05:41dear viewer, if you watch something like this and believe it,
00:05:45congratulations, you are being fed utter nonsense, but the lack
00:05:48of knowledge in this field does not allow you to identify
00:05:51this nonsense. Anyone can be fed
00:05:55nonsense in areas where a person lacks understanding of even
00:05:58basic principles, be it in medicine or nuclear energy. Moreover, this nonsense
00:06:02will seem plausible, logical, substantiated, and
00:06:05even supported by smart, incomprehensible terms.
00:06:09Let's get to the point, having finished the overture. It's far from
00:06:12so categorical, but something similar happened last week in the Brest region,
00:06:16where the president was also briefed on agriculture
00:06:19and the fact that in some areas the grain
00:06:22was frankly flooded by rains. Kobrin,
00:06:25here Malarita, Zhabinka, the Revsky district,
00:06:29here yes, it flooded a bit in the Ruzhansky district, well, and
00:06:32you know, I know better than you where it flooded and where
00:06:36not. Overall, it's not bad, it rained equally everywhere.
00:06:39Now we need to harvest the grain. Overall, throughout
00:06:43the country, it should not be lower than last year's
00:06:47level. If you deliver 12 million tons
00:06:50this year, it will be a great achievement, but even
00:06:5311.5 is good. The colossal
00:06:57advantage of Alexander Lukashenka is that he has been
00:07:00president for a long time. I have always considered certain term limits
00:07:04for power, whether two or three, to be nonsense, and I will probably
00:07:07always continue to do so. Someday we will have another
00:07:11president, and there's a high probability that they will report to him
00:07:14like this: "Understand correctly, you saw how much rain there was across the country,
00:07:18and there were also hurricanes, tornadoes, and other whirlwinds, and then
00:07:22the temperature rose to +40, so we won't have a good harvest
00:07:25this year." And he will answer them without fully understanding
00:07:29the depths due to his inexperience, "But they seem to be speaking correctly,
00:07:32I saw the precipitation myself, the scorching sun, but what can I
00:07:36demand from them?" He will say, "It's impossible. Well, at least try to
00:07:39do something." They will answer: "Of course, we will do everything
00:07:43possible and impossible." And this will be the beginning of a catastrophe in our country's
00:07:47agriculture, because they will do
00:07:50everything
00:07:52half-heartedly. Lukashenka is experienced after
00:07:56these decades, so he can answer, "Hey, guys, don't
00:07:59give me nonsense. If it's flooded, then dry it. You should have ready
00:08:03grain drying complexes. If the ears were flattened by the wind, then lift them up.
00:08:07You should have the appropriate attachments for that.
00:08:10If the sun is burning, why don't you switch to round-the-clock
00:08:14work to cope faster? Your task was to find personnel for this.
00:08:18Right?" Yes, for objectivity,
00:08:21grain dried several times will be slightly higher in cost
00:08:24than grain harvested in ideal conditions, but the head of state is not talking about
00:08:28the required profit per centner or from the harvest in general, only about
00:08:32the total yield, and then how to get super profits from expensive
00:08:35grain, we'll figure it out. We have BNBC, for example. This applies to
00:08:39different areas. I smiled on Thursday in Brest when...
00:09:12this will be straw, thank you, but I know
00:09:16how much straw is needed for mushrooms. At
00:09:19the same time, I am by no means criticizing the authorities in the Brest region, nor
00:09:23the executive vertical in general. I am talking about something else. Almost 10 years of working
00:09:27alongside the president gives me reason to assert that, in my opinion, this is one of
00:09:30Alexander Grigoryevich's techniques to better understand the real
00:09:34state of affairs. How do you evaluate, for example,
00:09:38the head of state's attitude towards visited
00:09:40enterprises? Because what and how he says is true. At
00:09:44the Brest electric lamp factory, for example, there was harsh criticism about
00:09:48why there was a failure there. But it's more subtle to try to understand
00:09:52why the president speaks that way, and why. What I saw was
00:09:55managerial cunning and even manipulation on the part of the
00:09:59country's leader. How could it be that some calmly reported that
00:10:02everything was perfect, while others said everything was bad? Where the truth
00:10:06lies is unclear. So Alexander Grigoryevich arrives, and immediately
00:10:09sternly and unequivocally states, "You have the right
00:10:12to work!" And then those in the management of the enterprise who
00:10:16disagree with this thesis begin to really prove that everything is not so
00:10:19bad, perhaps even good. Controllers intervene with their
00:10:23arguments, "Just a second, you have... problems here and here, you are
00:10:26lying or holding back." Then local authorities step in,
00:10:30answering, "Agreed, there are shortcomings here,
00:10:33but we have already developed measures to eliminate them, and they are already yielding
00:10:37results, and you are just exaggerating." The center
00:10:40then joins the dispute, in the person of either the Presidential Administration or
00:10:44the government, some siding with one, others with the other. Alexander Lukashenka observes
00:10:47all this cleverly, because in a conflict
00:10:51artificially provoked, it's easier to understand what
00:10:55is really happening at this factory, which officials
00:10:58are deeply involved, who just rewrote reports superficially, and who
00:11:02genuinely cares about the result, and who just wants to get through this high-level
00:11:06visit. It is quite certain that Alexander Grigoryevich does not
00:11:09need any boastful reports about how we will soon catch up with and
00:11:12overtake everyone on the planet, if these reports have nothing
00:11:16in common with reality. At the Brest electric lamp factory,
00:11:20it was like this: "We don't know how to make diodes, but we know how to
00:11:24make light bulbs."
00:11:55The President asks a question to some official, "Will we
00:11:58be able to do this when?" The official stands up and briskly reports that
00:12:02all assigned tasks will be completed, just give him literally
00:12:055 years and the industry will definitely flourish. I broadcast all this,
00:12:09and then some specialist from this
00:12:12industry writes or calls me with approximately the
00:12:15following thesis: "I don't know why this official reported
00:12:18that to the President, why did you show it on air, but it is either
00:12:22impossible to complete the assigned task ever, or
00:12:26it is impossible to complete it in 5 years, or it is possible, but
00:12:29it will be so expensive and inefficient that there is no
00:12:33sense in it." The CEO reported on the diodes, according to other
00:12:36specialists, theoretically we can create our own production
00:12:39from scratch, but it will be colossally expensive, and our
00:12:43products will in no way be able to withstand competition with China,
00:12:46for example, which supplies these diodes to the foreign market by
00:12:50the billions. The question is: why then
00:12:53does the President sometimes receive reports...
00:13:25for state interests, the logic is: today I
00:13:27will promise the president everything he asks for, even fully
00:13:31understanding that it is impossible. But I will promise that everything will be done in
00:13:345-10 years, if you give money today for this beautiful
00:13:38future. And by the time this beautiful future arrives, hopefully I will have been
00:13:41transferred somewhere else to work, either up, or diagonally, or horizontally,
00:13:45it doesn't matter. But the one who comes after me
00:13:48will be responsible for these promises and for returning the loans.
00:13:52Does Alexandrev understand this?
00:14:25the West and so on. But if there is
00:14:28discipline, where I visit, in the
00:14:31forest, everything is so neat, they
00:14:35do it perfectly. There's nothing like it in the world. I conclude:
00:14:39we can, we can. Where the president
00:14:43has been, it's good. Well, I'm not everywhere,
00:14:46and example number two, not
00:14:50just from last week, but on the very same day, but
00:14:53already about the city of Brest. I also have other bodies,
00:14:57besides Vasily Nikolaevich, who will control and say
00:15:01what is bad, what is good, how you removed all sorts of
00:15:04trash and scrap metal before my arrival, and so on. But
00:15:08it's good that before the president's arrival you sweep the
00:15:11corridors and workshops, it's not bad, and you remove from
00:15:15the territory what hasn't been removed for centuries. But this needs to be done
00:15:18constantly. I'm leading to the fact that being an effective
00:15:22leader is a very delicate job, and when the president praises
00:15:26someone publicly for something, it doesn't mean that he is unaware
00:15:29of the shortcomings. Similarly, when he criticizes, sometimes it's to
00:15:32better understand how well everything is going. There
00:15:36must be a natural inclination for this, which is why
00:15:40presidents are not made, they are born, but
00:15:43this art is honed by experience, the more
00:15:45experience, the better. And finally, as usual, about personal matters. I am deeply
00:15:49convinced that the best propaganda is honest propaganda, which is why I
00:15:53will never undertake to propagate, let's say, certain
00:15:57democratic elements of our system
00:15:59of state administration, because I believe in strong authority, a strong
00:16:03leader, and I will not call from TV screens, "Don't come
00:16:07to the regional centers, the best jobs are in the regions," because I
00:16:10myself moved to the capital a long time ago in search of the most
00:16:14challenging, most responsible journalistic work. But I
00:16:17can honestly advocate, because it has been tested on myself and is
00:16:20part of my life, moving to a village from a big city to a private
00:16:24house, which the president calls everyone to do, well, 10 acres, so
00:16:27that in the morning you can walk through the dew, and trees nearby, from birches to
00:16:31pines, increase the level of happiness in life.
00:16:35Comfort is also good, but
00:16:38comfort is not equal to happiness, not to mention
00:16:41the mass, in fact, useless race for some
00:16:44ostentation. I can honestly advocate the calls
00:16:48of Alexander Lukashenka to the people to switch to electric heating in
00:16:51houses and apartments. From this summer, I can honestly say that yes, let's all
00:16:55switch to electric transport together, because it
00:16:58is really cool. And most importantly, I have two children,
00:17:02so I, it seems to me, have the right to sincerely say, dear
00:17:05Belarusians, let's have more children, and not just for demography
00:17:09for the good of the homeland, but children are happiness and the meaning of life, and
00:17:12an incentive to perform feats, and the most powerful reason to become older,
00:17:16wiser, and smarter. In September 2024, the Ministry
00:17:20of Internal Affairs of our country offered me to become an unofficial
00:17:23representative of the system of military-patriotic clubs
00:17:26of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Frankly speaking, I agreed with internal
00:17:30hesitation. My son will definitely go to a military-patriotic
00:17:33club, but at that time he was one and a half years old. My daughter is now nine,
00:17:37but she's a very girly girl, so I didn't insist or suggest it. But with
00:17:41Yuliana, I once went on an excursion to a military unit of the Internal Troops
00:17:45of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and she absolutely loved it there. In early summer, she
00:17:48learned from her friends that in such brigades there are children's camps
00:18:01a shift at the military-patriotic camp "Granit," which is military unit
00:18:055448, that is, the first separate.
00:18:15I'm not even talking about the romance of barrack life, albeit adapted
00:18:19for children. I'm not talking about the fantastically cool food
00:18:23in the brigade, which is already customary for the internal troops,
00:18:26and not even about leisure activities within the unit. Military education
00:18:30was also present, and a daily routine, including morning exercises and no
00:18:33gadgets, except for calling parents in the evening briefly. And
00:18:37they touched upon drill training, looked at weapons and equipment, that
00:18:41was there, but much more important was the patriotic component. Sometimes
00:18:44the work in this direction is done poorly, when children and teenagers
00:18:48are seated in classrooms and monotonously lectured, and it's
00:18:52even lucky if they have slides, telling them that they
00:18:55must love their homeland, how to love their homeland, how much the homeland
00:18:59does for them, why they should love it, you simply must,
00:19:02children. Such an approach to patriotic education
00:19:06will only evoke the opposite effect. In the internal
00:19:09troops, I say this not so much as a propagandist and not
00:19:13so much as an official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' VPK, but as
00:19:16the dad of a nine-year-old girl, they do it right. My daughter, in
00:19:202 weeks, was simply shown her Belarus, in such a way
00:19:23that she herself sincerely wanted to love it even more. The children were taken and
00:19:27simply shown all the beauty of their homeland. Here are our rivers
00:19:31and lakes, here are endless forests, and in them live all these different
00:19:35animals. Here's how people used to live here, from the era of castles to
00:19:38modernity. Here, in our history, there was war and the tragedy of Khatyn.
00:19:42Here's how millions of people rebuilt the country. And look what
00:19:46cool things we've learned to make ourselves: BelAZ trucks, tractors, combines, and much
00:19:50more. Here, children, are also entertainments for every taste. For
00:19:53you to have all this, all the dads and moms of the country worked very
00:19:57hard. The fundamental, cornerstone,
00:20:00system-forming element of patriotic education
00:20:03of children: they first need to be shown that the homeland, in the person
00:20:06of all... loves them. First, not so much
00:20:10with words as with deeds, to show this love and care. Only after
00:20:14that, as a final touch, humbly, without excessive pathos,
00:20:17say: "Children, your native Belarus loves you, so love
00:20:20her too." But if everything is done correctly, then even the words themselves will
00:20:24not be necessary. For such military-patriotic
00:20:27education, correct and sensible, I dare
00:20:30to say a common fatherly and common parental thank you
00:20:34to the architects of this system, the Minister of Internal Affairs, the commander.
00:20:50Belarusian woman, Lieutenant of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alena
00:20:53Soboleva, who supervises children in the Granit camp, shift after shift,
00:20:57is universally loved by all parents, because with kindness
00:21:00and care she manages to surround not only children, but also adults,
00:21:03who are constantly interested in what their son or daughter is doing, someone
00:21:07needs something to be passed on, something to be found somewhere, she entertains everyone with
00:21:10photo reports and simply sometimes talks. When they said goodbye
00:21:14to her, the children sobbed inconsolably and promised to
00:21:17meet her again with their
00:21:20militarized leader, I was not
00:21:24surprised, because not all parents in the chat were
00:21:27aware: the Belarusian Red Cross has an amazing project called
00:21:30"Nanny Instead of Mom". Children from infancy
00:21:34who for some reason were left without parents, well,
00:21:37of course, in specialized institutions they are provided
00:21:40by the state with everything necessary, but the warmth
00:21:44of a mother's hands will still not replace it. There are Belarusians who
00:21:48find the opportunity, time and strength, including moral,
00:21:51to become nannies instead of mothers for such children, if only for a short time,
00:21:55not for work, not for salary, as a volunteer, to feed, play,
00:21:59change clothes, take or carry to procedures, just to be near,
00:22:02surrounding the baby with warmth and care.
00:22:06One of these volunteers is Lieutenant Soboleva, moreover, she
00:22:09does 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
00:22:17more volunteers will join, but don't talk specifically about me,"
00:22:20she might say. I am sure we should, Alyona
00:22:24Sergeevna, talk about you and other such Belarusian women
00:22:27who modestly work true miracles, and for this to
00:22:31happen even more often, we just need to promote
00:22:33our Belarusian women more often. My name is Igor Tur, this was my propaganda.
00:22:52Minsk - capital, but not
00:22:54bustling, modern, but preserving
00:22:58the memory of centuries, dynamic and at the same time
00:23:01cozy. It is a city where history breathes
00:23:05in sync with the future. It strikes with its spaciousness
00:23:09and scope, and monumental
00:23:11architecture. The majestic and strict
00:23:15ensemble of post-war revival. This is
00:23:18the city's calling card. Here you can feel
00:23:21the breath of great
00:23:23history.
00:23:31But turn off the wide avenue, and you enter
00:23:35a completely different, intimate and lyrical
00:23:38Minsk. Cozy courtyards, historical
00:23:42quarters, the whisper of the Svisloch river. And
00:23:45Minsk is also an incredibly green city, it is
00:23:49a place where everyone will find their own corner for
00:23:53relaxation. Minsk is not only
00:23:56postcard views, it is a cultural and theatrical
00:23:59capital with a bustling life, it is a business
00:24:03and scientific hub where the IT technologies
00:24:06of the future are born.
00:24:09It's sporty, event-filled, always ready
00:24:12to surprise.
00:24:22But the main treasure of Minsk are its inhabitants,
00:24:26friendly, hospitable and welcoming,
00:24:30they create that special, kind and safe
00:24:33atmosphere that makes the city truly
00:24:36homey, diverse, unexpected,
00:24:40attractive. Come and discover it for
00:24:43yourself.
00:24:56Belarusian and Arab parliaments signed a memorandum of understanding, which will
00:25:00become an inter-parliamentary bridge that will connect Belarus
00:25:03with the Arab world in trade and economic spheres, in
00:25:06education and medicine. Belarus is developing a large-scale
00:25:10project to supply Mozambique with 400 units
00:25:13of agricultural equipment, including a thousand tractors. A country with a population of almost
00:25:1640 million and access to the Indian Ocean
00:25:20is interested in Belarusian technologies. Mozambique needs support in security
00:25:23and combating various forms of organized crime,
00:25:27and in this we can help both with training specialists
00:25:31and with teaching technologies for working with drones, anti-drone
00:25:34systems, and radar complexes. The metallurgical industry
00:25:37plays one of the key roles in the development of the Belarusian economy. It forms
00:25:41a strong foundation for the industrial complex, ensuring
00:25:44the uninterrupted operation of almost all sectors of the national economy.
00:25:48The largest metal producer.
00:26:34unspoiled and
00:26:35historical,
00:26:40vibrant and
00:26:41festive,
00:26:45we show you Belarus every
00:26:47day, 24 hours, free to
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