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00:00:00problems in 60 settlements, but that doesn't mean that they are
00:00:03completely disconnected, they are somewhere partially, somewhere
00:00:07work is being carried out, but the consumer is mostly with
00:00:10electricity, also the Vitebsk energy system provided assistance to the Minsk
00:00:13energy system, which suffered the most, this is
00:00:17Vileysky district, in general the situation is currently
00:00:20under control, in Gomel region the power supply has been
00:00:23fully restored in Svetlogorsk district, in Zhlobin
00:00:27district there are still settlements without electricity.
00:00:30For the prompt elimination of the consequences of the hurricane,
00:00:3429 emergency recovery brigades and 36 units of
00:00:38special equipment were involved. More news on the Newsby website, in our
00:00:41mobile application and multimedia portal videobel.
00:05:03How difficult it is,
00:05:05difficult in the flow of information to extract
00:05:08what is truly important, it's not just about delving deep, it's even
00:05:12harder to ask honest questions and look at
00:05:15ourselves soberly, but this is the only right path if
00:05:19you want to have your own opinion and not settle for
00:05:22what is imposed. My name is Alyona Syrova, professionally and
00:05:25personally I see it
00:05:27this way:
00:05:35right off the bat, what impressed me from the news, well,
00:05:38let's say, over the last few days, regarding the internal agenda?
00:06:42and you are at your workplace, to which
00:06:45he tells me: I don't work, in fact he speaks Russian very badly,
00:06:49this is not Russian,
00:06:52at that moment I say, I will now
00:06:55record everything on my phone's video,
00:06:59because such communication is unacceptable,
00:07:02he started showing us,
00:07:05saying some super bad words, and
00:07:08at that moment started swinging his arms like this.
00:07:43legal assessment, more on that in a few moments, now about
00:07:46what unites not youth in boots and the incident with
00:07:49a foreigner, it's the reaction and parallel
00:07:53realities of life, these messages in social networks, with the migrant it turned out
00:07:56to be very multifaceted, firstly,
00:07:59mainly, I do not justify or defend
00:08:03anyone, but the Minister of Internal Affairs, commenting on the situation,
00:08:06said the following. Indeed, a foreign
00:08:09citizen who came to our country
00:08:13is a student of one of the universities,
00:08:17a guy who wants to study,
00:08:20wants to earn a penny, and naturally works part-time in
00:08:23a taxi, they started investigating, the guy immediately repented,
00:08:27says: the girl immediately introduced herself as
00:08:30a blogger, it turns out, the whole way while they were driving, they
00:08:33filmed this guy on a mobile phone,
00:08:37he doesn't know Russian very well, he asked, put away the phone,
00:08:40he says, he asked several times, but... then, apparently, his nerves snapped,
00:08:44he hit with his hand, but wanted to knock
00:08:48the phone out, so in the end she wrote
00:08:51a statement, yes, regarding his actions we will certainly
00:08:55investigate, but as soon as this appeared on the Internet,
00:08:58all citizens of the Republic of Belarus, yes, probably not only the Republic of Belarus,
00:09:02those who read, write in the comments, deport him,
00:09:06imprison him and so on and so forth, in every
00:09:09situation one needs to understand, it's strange
00:09:12that Belarusians, who pride themselves worldwide on their kindness and
00:09:16tact, and law-abidingness, decided
00:09:19to film someone without consent. Listen, you
00:09:23wouldn't be thrilled either, would you? In our country,
00:09:26generally, this is not allowed, regardless of whether it's a guest
00:09:29or a compatriot, and yes, hitting someone in Belarus
00:09:32is also prohibited. Hence the second point, a very
00:09:36disturbing trend: before calling 102, right there, on
00:09:40the spot, the girls had...
00:10:25in the comments they demand a spectacle and video with a dashcam, forgetting that there are
00:10:28actually legal norms, that's how social networks erode
00:10:31boundaries, if before such conflicts could be provoked by
00:10:35opinion leaders, millionaire bloggers, now any Vasya Pupkin from a fake
00:10:39account can stir up trouble and boom, yes,
00:10:42they will find out, but one should not underestimate
00:10:44the consequences.
00:10:50Social networks today are a digital storefront, a place where people upload
00:10:53селфи, снимают обзор.
00:10:56Originally created for sharing information, reliable communication and
00:11:00communication, the internet has become not only a useful tool for
00:11:03humanity, but a dangerous weapon. Often, one click,
00:11:06a random post or an angry comment from an ordinary user
00:11:09shakes the real world more strongly than a combat
00:11:12projectile. We should give our Filipino
00:11:15maids one day off a week and not take away their
00:11:19passports, and if they decide to leave the country, I am
00:11:23outraged.
00:11:25In 2019, a blogger from Kuwait criticized a new law giving domestic
00:11:28workers more rights. The post caused a colossal international
00:11:32scandal and provoked a mass evacuation of Filipinos. Major
00:11:35brands broke contracts with the influencer, advertisers left, and this is not the first and
00:11:38far from the last time that online
00:11:42publications have carried serious consequences. Once in Canada, airline
00:11:45loaders damaged a musician's guitar during a flight, and they didn't even
00:11:49pay compensation. In response, the artist posted a video online
00:11:52where he ridiculed this situation.
00:12:00The result: the company lost about 180 million dollars
00:12:04in just a few days. Obviously, such results would not have occurred if
00:12:08the post had not gained traction, and it gains traction for several reasons.
00:12:11This is how algorithms work, they immediately evaluate potentially
00:12:15popular publications, and negative messages are always trending, attracting
00:12:18even those who were never interested in the topic. This phenomenon
00:12:22is explainable from a psychological point of view. only one
00:12:25source that expressed one emotion or another, emotionally infected and somehow connected to
00:12:29it, a group, well, it seems, is not
00:12:33mistaken, although this is certainly not true, it is just an illusion, if there is a lot of this information,
00:12:36if they talk about it, it also catches on like a snowball, even
00:12:40if I don't understand this topic, other people react, it's also important for me to say
00:12:44something, that I don't want to be different from others, this is also quite a good
00:12:47safety mechanism, but if in the case of the airline, it was at least
00:12:51fair in terms of the text, there are not uncommon cases when baseless... posts
00:12:55cost not only a loss of reputation, but waves of violence and
00:12:58unrest.
00:13:02In 2024, in the UK there was a knife attack on
00:13:05a children's dance studio, where children died, and then someone
00:13:09posted a fake post about the attacker being a refugee. A wave
00:13:13of anti-migrant protests immediately swept the country, escalating into
00:13:16clashes with police and attacks, and it turned out that
00:13:19the crime was committed by a local resident. Behind the mask of a random
00:13:22eyewitness or an ordinary citizen all...
00:13:55many years, so such experiments are certainly very
00:13:58dangerous and should be considered, ideally, a
00:14:01crime against humanity. There are many examples, for example, the
00:14:05Black Lives Matter movement, which arose in the USA due to one video, or
00:14:09the case in Myanmar, in which ethnic strife flared up due to a post by
00:14:12a local resident. Also, the Arab Spring. The wave of color
00:14:16revolutions also spread thanks to a well-known messenger. An ordinary
00:14:19user created a page in memory of a deceased guy. Over time, the local
00:14:23group turned into... The logistical headquarters of the revolution.
00:14:26A smartphone in hand became a remote control for anger. Not only
00:14:30the Arab Spring, we can recall 2014, November
00:14:331st, when suddenly the same canopy collapsed, for example,
00:14:36at the railway station, Novi Sad in
00:14:40Serbia. It was just an excuse to stir up young people. This is all
00:14:43aimed at young people, so all color revolutions,
00:14:47whether it was in the territory of the Arab Spring, where they spread almost
00:14:51throughout Africa, and even to the Middle East. That's what it's about.
00:14:55As for our Republic of Belarus, this is all, first
00:14:58and foremost, a consequence of the fact that they are working through, looking for weak
00:15:01spots, where and how they can hook people, and any information occasion can
00:15:05be used from a minimal to a global
00:15:09scale. In a world where everything is digitized, you need to filter not
00:15:12only photos, but your own thoughts. The word today is the most expensive
00:15:16commodity and the most accessible weapon, because if before, to start
00:15:20a conflict, resources were needed, now smartphones and viral text,
00:15:23so where are the boundaries here?
00:15:37narratives, yes, there is simply a deficit in the army, yes, there are simply not
00:15:41enough personnel in the agro-industrial complex, all in that vein, well, a logical question, why then
00:15:45into the army, and not just into the forest or forestry, there are, they say,
00:15:49dying professions,
00:15:50but the personnel who are in the forest,
00:15:57by the way, can be and are, in fact,
00:16:00a reserve for the armed forces. Are you
00:16:04registered - are you ready, if something happens, to take
00:16:07up arms? Well, in any case, of course,
00:16:10I am ready, because this is our country, our homeland,
00:16:14hunters have always been
00:16:17ardent defenders
00:16:19of their homeland, always went in the first
00:16:22ranks, I have been dealing with weapons for 25
00:16:26years, I naturally
00:16:29know how to handle them, yes, we are registered,
00:16:32and territorial defense
00:16:35its... this forest, the forest is grown for that very reason,
00:17:37so that after 80-90 or 60 years
00:17:42it can be cut down and put to use for
00:17:46building housing or furniture, for example. This is very
00:17:49important, I have made comments many times about
00:17:53the problems of windthrow and
00:17:56storm-damaged timber. So, the new minister said that he will
00:18:00work on processing, including for
00:18:03export, goods with high added value, but for now
00:18:07we still have firewood,
00:18:10it's unlikely we will consume so much? Yes, today such
00:18:14a quantity of this fuelwood is not
00:18:17in demand, so there is already a sequence, a priority, so that
00:18:21it doesn't spoil, cleanup, that is, earlier harvested timber. As of
00:18:24today, yes, given that the number of
00:18:28energy sources using local types of fuel is increasing, this is wood chips, this is
00:18:32pellets, the residues are no longer increasing, they are at least
00:18:36slowly but surely decreasing. with this
00:18:39problem, of course, the task still needs to be worked on, well, one must understand, this
00:18:43is not a one-day task. out of curiosity, I monitored
00:18:46the situation with firewood, and you know what, some places are
00:18:50even ready to sell last year's, but let's talk about
00:18:53that in October, November, when traditionally the masses will come to their senses
00:18:57and rush to diversify fuel resources,
00:19:00because in the household, neither pellets, nor
00:19:03biofuels, nor firewood will this is if the owner is thrifty and
00:19:07farsighted, has a plan, stopped
00:19:10selling fertilizers abroad, until we provide for
00:19:14ourselves, when we arrive in Mogilev
00:19:17region or Vitebsk or Grodno, and there
00:19:21under the open sky, and also nitrogen fertilizers, you
00:19:24know what will happen to them, nothing will
00:19:27happen, they will melt within a day in the
00:19:30rain, the weather is like that, well, you feel my
00:19:34attitude, I can earn today on mineral
00:19:38fertilizers, even the prices for potash have increased
00:19:40significantly, I direct this to agriculture,
00:19:44and you let them rot under
00:19:48the open sky, or an abnormal attitude towards
00:19:52equipment, experts are united, the
00:19:55Belarusian agro-industrial complex is currently experiencing a golden age, we know how to make
00:19:59it qualitatively and deliciously, we have everything to feel
00:20:03confident in the future, but it's not like that everywhere,
00:20:06global hunger, a cliché that may even seem to us
00:20:09to be imposed and fabricated scaremongering, but it's worth looking
00:20:13a little further than our continent, and if
00:20:16we analyze the events of recent years and months, then
00:20:29over the past 5-7 years the global agri-food
00:20:32system has faced a large number of
00:20:36challenges and shocks.
00:20:51security did not work and were not able to solve
00:20:55the growing food problem. The world community
00:20:58still relies on
00:21:02financing emergency food aid to solve food
00:21:05security problems, which, by the way,
00:21:09is decreasing. For the period from 2022 to
00:21:122025, the volume
00:21:15of funding for food aid in the world
00:21:18decreased by 60%.
00:21:30The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz made it practically
00:21:33impossible to supply through
00:21:36this channel fertilizers,
00:21:39energy carriers, and food. In the first
00:21:42place, this was felt by the states of Southeast
00:21:46Asia and the European Union. For some goods.
00:21:50Dependence on this supply channel was
00:21:5350% or more. Moreover,
00:21:56the Hormuz crisis happened precisely at a
00:21:59critical time for world agriculture, when
00:22:03the sowing campaign was beginning. In
00:22:07this regard, the rise in prices for fertilizers, fuels and lubricants,
00:22:10led to an increase in costs for
00:22:13agricultural producers. I will give such data from international
00:22:17statistics: in April 2026,
00:22:20the price of carbamide on the world market was
00:22:24twice as high as in April
00:22:282025, and the price of
00:22:31triple superphosphate increased by
00:22:3330%. Of course, prices for
00:22:37food also reacted to such a rise in prices for fertilizers
00:22:40and energy carriers. According to
00:22:43data from the Food and Agriculture
00:22:46Organization (FAO), the food price index
00:22:50for the first half of 2026
00:22:53increased by six percentage points, which is a lot,
00:22:57primarily due to the prices of meat,
00:23:01grain, and vegetable oil.
00:23:04I note that the price index for vegetable oil increased by
00:23:0723 percentage
00:23:10points. Farmers in the European Union
00:23:13also experienced an unprecedented increase
00:23:16in costs, respectively,
00:23:18their product competitiveness decreased and
00:23:22their production potential is contracting, as evidenced by statistical
00:23:26data.
00:23:34In the current situation, for the Republic of Belarus
00:23:38it is important not only to gain an advantage from
00:23:42the favorable global food market conjuncture, when
00:23:45prices are rising and demand for our products is growing, but
00:23:49also to occupy niches that are
00:23:52being vacated by countries that have suffered from
00:23:56the Middle East conflict. Our
00:23:59Belarusian model of ensuring food
00:24:02security, our doctrine, it is
00:24:05built primarily on a high level of
00:24:08self-sufficiency in basic agricultural products,
00:24:11raw materials, and food. This allows
00:24:15us, regardless of any changes in the external
00:24:18market situation, to guarantee food security for our
00:24:22population and to carry out stable
00:24:25export supplies of food to the world
00:24:28market. According to the World Food and Agriculture
00:24:31Organization, in the Republic of Belarus, the normative
00:24:34diet of the population is provided
00:24:38by domestic resources at 140%. And
00:24:41furthermore, for 99%
00:24:44of the republic's population a healthy
00:24:47diet is available. Of course, there are not so many
00:24:50human resources in the military-industrial complex, and the whole world is going along the path of mechanization, firstly, because
00:24:54it's speed, secondly, people are no longer willing, even for
00:24:57big money, as before, and do not want to
00:25:00labor in not the most comfortable
00:25:04conditions, I am now tracking
00:25:07imported presses from other countries, observing them, but they are like
00:25:10tanks, they endlessly twist this
00:25:13straw, hay, haylage, this year it's pleasant
00:25:17to watch, and I think, well, Karankevich made
00:25:20his own, and this is very important, journalists
00:25:24who don't understand this, think, well, the press, the president controls
00:25:28the press, okay, this robot that you make for milking
00:25:31cows, there are fewer and fewer milkers, Alyona Surova will not go
00:25:35tomorrow to milk cows, she
00:25:38will not go, who will milk them, we need these
00:25:41robots, we need our own, it's extremely
00:25:44necessary, because not only
00:25:46Alyona, but also...
00:26:02will go milk cows, well, let's see, if this is
00:26:06a matter of our food security, then
00:26:09the concern to ensure that our own people can
00:26:12provide for themselves is quite understandable, yes, it's not
00:26:15as simple as with the baler, especially since there are
00:26:19plenty of analogues in the world, even our Chinese friends can and
00:26:22do, and are ready to share technologies, now in Brest
00:26:26they are comparing two, I admitted to
00:26:29the president that
00:26:33the Chinese baler, which we are now testing on our
00:26:37fields, and also the first pilot
00:26:41work shows that it is not at all inferior to neither Bobruisk
00:26:44Agromash, nor other manufacturers that produce
00:26:47balers on the territory of our country, this is
00:26:51Grodno, this is Minsk region, we have
00:26:54good relations with this Chinese company, which is ready
00:26:58to transfer, let's say, technologies
00:27:01for organization.
00:27:32well, placed an alternative production of one type
00:27:35of baler at this enterprise. So the question is, why should
00:27:39we toil over our own, if everything is so wonderfully
00:27:42falling into place? This is
00:27:45a matter of honor, if you will, and technological
00:27:47sovereignty, not everything is decided by cold calculation. Listen, well, it's
00:27:51like a solo. Everyone looked at
00:27:54the Coat of Arms of Belarus? So it is framed with golden
00:27:57ears of grain, intertwined with clover and
00:28:01flax flowers. These are the very blue field
00:28:04lakes, when it blooms, it is flax, beautiful, comfortable to
00:28:07wear, stylish, but capricious in cultivation and
00:28:11care. How we suffer with it every year? No, there are
00:28:14those who laugh at the phrase about pulling flax, but
00:28:18for those in the know, this process is not at all about
00:28:22pleasure and fun, and we preserve our demanding
00:28:25wealth, although there are analogues,
00:28:29why? Flax in our country is called
00:28:32northern silk, behind this poetic name are years of selection,
00:28:36field work, workshops, machines, we are used to considering it
00:28:39a part of our identity, but today on the shelves next to
00:28:43Belarusian, Chinese flax is increasingly found,
00:28:46the buyer takes it, we are not rushing to conclusions, but the question
00:28:50arose: what is our flax today and most importantly,
00:28:53is it worth investing in it as we do? It all
00:28:56starts at the Mogilev regional experimental station, where long-stemmed flax
00:29:00breeding has been going on for years, during which time 27
00:29:04varieties have been created, among the bestsellers are the reliable
00:29:07Malachite, the resistant Rubiezh, which cover half of all flax fields in
00:29:11the country, but to create a variety takes no less than 15 years, from the first
00:29:14crossing to state trials, all for the sake of the fiber being
00:29:18thin, flexible, strong, two new varieties Patriot and
00:29:22Flagman have just been sent for three-year trials.
00:29:25Varieties of Belarusian selection and for Belarusian
00:29:29climatic conditions, it must have. first
00:29:32of all, high fiber yield,
00:29:35second quality, probably the most
00:29:38important before fiber yield, is its
00:29:42ultimate properties. The station's collection includes foreign samples
00:29:45from China, France, Belgium, Chinese varieties, for example, high
00:29:49yielding, 1 meter 20 cm tall, give excellent yields in their climatic conditions,
00:29:53but in Belarus they are prone to lodging, and the percentage of fiber content and its
00:29:57ultimate properties are inferior to our varieties, so breeders from...
00:30:00use the world gene pool in their work, cross foreign
00:30:04samples with domestic ones, to take the best from them and create
00:30:07a variety ideally suited for our conditions.
00:30:11From breeding plots to a large field
00:30:14at the Gorki Lyon farm, this year 2,000 hectares were allocated
00:30:18to the crop, 90% has already been pulled,
00:30:21just over 160 hectares remain. Flax is
00:30:25not an easy crop, it needs a stable temperature of
00:30:2918 to 25 degrees, rainfall
00:30:31exactly on time. and after harvesting, it cannot be returned to the same field for at least
00:30:355-7 years, otherwise diseases accumulate.
00:30:38The main risks, well, when
00:30:41growing flax before germination, if there are heavy rains, then
00:30:44it will sprout poorly. During vegetation, of course,
00:30:48winds, rains, but during harvesting
00:30:52it is, of course, the necessary amount of precipitation
00:30:55for retting. The raw material is sent from the field to the factory, where
00:30:58two types of fiber are produced: long and short. Raw materials from all
00:31:02over the country flow to the Orsha Linen Mill, the flagship
00:31:05and main processor. Over the past 10 years, about
00:31:09$200 million has been invested here. Today it is no longer just
00:31:12a factory, but a holding company that controls the entire
00:31:15cycle from field to finished product. This year we will complete
00:31:19the modernization of the first weaving factory, where we will
00:31:22process mostly short-staple fiber and
00:31:25produce modern fabrics with
00:31:28the possibility of producing blended fabrics, so that the fabric is more
00:31:32modern, so that the fabric is more comfortable and convenient
00:31:36for our consumers. Convenience and comfort
00:31:39are what consumers most often cite as examples when
00:31:42comparing our flax with Chinese. Their advantage is that they
00:31:46were able to make Elastane. Elastane is great
00:31:50because it holds and does not allow the fabric to
00:31:53stretch. Our fabrics, especially 100% linen, if
00:31:57it lies close and has a little tension, it can stretch. Chinese
00:32:00linen is comfortable and affordable, but there's a catch: for the money it
00:32:04sells for, there's almost no real linen in it. It would seem that
00:32:08in that case we have an advantage, but the market works differently. China
00:32:12is a huge technological country with strong state
00:32:15support, they know how to promote their products, they offer a low price and
00:32:19do it so convincingly that the consumer rarely thinks about
00:32:22the composition, and today China is confidently moving up the
00:32:26price segment, if we don't hold our positions, we risk losing
00:32:29the market, to prevent this, support is needed not only from the giants of
00:32:33Bellegprom, but also from small businesses. We, for example, are a brand that
00:32:37produces products entirely from
00:32:40Belarusian raw materials. Of course, I would like to see priority, even in
00:32:44purchasing raw materials, some financial
00:32:48support, then we can, of course, bypass
00:32:51China, that percentage of loans, taxes they
00:32:54have, it's not the same as ours, so they have very strong
00:32:58government support, until we get such
00:33:01support, we will lose, now let's look at the numbers: the export
00:33:05of the Orsha combine in 2025 is more than $100
00:33:08million to 40 countries, Russia, China, Turkey,
00:33:11European states, while the profitability of flax production in the best
00:33:15farms reaches 70%, is that a lot
00:33:18or a little, given that the state annually increases
00:33:21support, is flax worth pulling, well, here it's more appropriate to
00:33:25ask, can we afford it? allow us to
00:33:28refuse this, we cannot. Flax is not only fabric, it is
00:33:31jobs, it is technological independence, it is our
00:33:34identity, and to preserve this, we must continue
00:33:37to develop, then the northern silk has a
00:33:40future. We have many such outdated
00:33:44brands as flax, and why can't we buy that?
00:33:47But if something changes in the usual or on the shelf in the
00:33:51store, God forbid, it disappears, then expect a wave on
00:33:54social networks, even if the person didn't buy it, and if
00:33:58they love it, it will be like with the Orsha cannery's baby food,
00:34:02please tell me, those who are in the know, where
00:34:05did these MKK meat jars disappear to?
00:34:08If you were looking for Orsha Meat Cannery's preserves, you can
00:34:12stop looking, the jar has been changed.
00:34:15problem: the Orsha Cannery is now under the wing of Agrocombinat
00:34:18Dzerzhinsky, if you didn't know, of course, but the root of the external
00:34:22changes is still different. All people
00:34:25are looking, and we see on social networks that they are asking: where is the tin
00:34:28can of baby food? Baby food was never
00:34:32produced in a tin can. There are special approvals and requirements for
00:34:35the production of baby meat puree, and an aluminum can was used there,
00:34:39an aluminum container that was used in the production of local preserves
00:34:42was imported, that is, it was bought from outside. The aluminum
00:34:46market in the Russian Federation is monopolized
00:34:50by manufacturers who have their own views on the development of this
00:34:53story. If you dig a little deeper,
00:34:57even among Russian manufacturers
00:35:00of products in aluminum containers, there was a resonance, especially among
00:35:04beer manufacturers, due to the fact that aluminum prices in Russia
00:35:07are somehow tied to the
00:35:10London Metal Exchange, and the price
00:35:14formation is... for some reason, for Russian manufacturers and
00:35:17for friendly manufacturers, prices
00:35:20are world prices, which are in no way connected and to some extent are
00:35:24speculative. We see how the situation in the world is developing
00:35:27today, how sanctions operate and work,
00:35:31therefore, taking into account the
00:35:34tasks set, first of all, understanding that
00:35:37an enterprise that produces such an important product as baby
00:35:40food must be provided with domestic
00:35:43components. This decision is within the framework of the
00:35:47import substitution program and rejection of
00:35:50third-party productions, meaning
00:35:53outside the state, to switch to a glass jar
00:35:56of domestic production. This, of course, did not affect
00:36:00the recipes or the contents
00:36:03of the jar, all recipes are preserved, but
00:36:07they simply have a more modern look today. A glass jar is still
00:36:10a neutral material, glass is a neutral material that does not react
00:36:15with food, does not change it, so
00:36:18plus the convenience of heating, it is definitely more environmentally friendly. Here
00:36:22there is a question of a formed
00:36:24habit.
00:36:32Work is underway, so, first,
00:36:36to keep prices down. Here, of course, there are some aspects that
00:36:40we are working on with our major retail, but today a complete understanding
00:36:43has been reached, therefore the end
00:36:46consumer will be offered a clear, familiar product, yes, in
00:36:50a different package, but more recognizable, I think
00:36:53the information field of the glass jar will allow it to be done.
00:36:57Make the label more vibrant, more colorful, more
00:37:00readable. It's not that simple,
00:37:03you need to delve deeper, but you don't want to, because
00:37:07it's much easier to do what is said, it's harder to do it with
00:37:10intelligence, with understanding, for what we want to achieve.
00:37:14You need to go where there will be results, you don't need
00:37:18to show it to the public, to the president on TV and so
00:37:22on and so forth, no need, I have other methods
00:37:25of work, style of work. I see who does what, let's
00:37:29resolve these or those
00:37:33issues in essence, on the merits, and don't promise what you
00:37:36cannot do, and what Belarus does not need today, I
00:37:40mean, starting from Russia, China, ending with
00:37:43Africa, we need to do only what we can
00:37:47today, it's difficult to figure it out,
00:37:51not so hyped, perhaps bright, but you know,
00:37:55stable?
00:38:18Our specialists get their education at the university,
00:38:22our educational institution is called the University of Civil
00:38:24Defense, it is a departmental institution. It
00:38:28has quite a lot of experience in training specialists,
00:38:31quite good traditions of training
00:38:35practical specialists who are ready, having received
00:38:39an education, to perform tasks, practical
00:38:42tasks for preventing and eliminating emergencies.
00:38:46Our educational institution trains
00:38:49specialists in main specialties, this is
00:38:52prevention and elimination of emergencies, as well as fire and
00:38:55industrial safety. These areas are really
00:38:59quite practice-oriented, so we have
00:39:01a whole system of personnel training that
00:39:05recently celebrated its ninetieth anniversary, and
00:39:08we have a number of methods and developments on how to train
00:39:12specialists so that they can further perform all possible tasks
00:39:15in practical activities, so answering your question, I can
00:39:19say that you need to get professional training and then
00:39:22improve yourself within practical tasks, responding to
00:39:26emergencies, including those of an international nature. If we talk
00:39:29about elite fighters, then here some special requirements
00:39:33are imposed. Yes, here special training is
00:39:36required. The training
00:39:38of cadets indeed takes place in
00:39:41conditions close to reality. We
00:39:44have a very good training ground where
00:39:47a number of emergencies of various
00:39:51types can be simulated. This training ground is also
00:39:54used in training, starting
00:39:57from the first courses of cadet
00:40:00training throughout
00:40:04the entire training program, and indeed
00:40:08this probably requires qualities of character such
00:40:11as not being afraid of difficulties, not being afraid to overcome the difficulties that
00:40:14arise and to strive for the goal you have
00:40:17set. And with which countries does your university
00:40:20cooperate today? Our university actively cooperates, this is a number
00:40:24of international ones.
00:40:58its own specifics, somewhere there is an exchange of
00:41:00cadets, somewhere we exchange
00:41:03experience based on the results of scientific research, somewhere
00:41:07we help with the organization of specialist training,
00:41:11these can be short-term training programs, it can be classical
00:41:15education over 4 years
00:41:18in the field of higher education, and thus
00:41:21quite active cooperation
00:41:22is carried out.
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