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00:00:01Hello viewer, my name is Igor Tur, this is my propaganda.
00:00:04Let's begin. Last week was marked primarily
00:00:07by the participation of Alexander Lukashenka in the Shanghai
00:00:11Cooperation Organization summit. But, I want to start today's program
00:00:15with something else, with school. At the end of August, like thousands of other
00:00:18parents across the country, I was at a parent-teacher meeting before
00:00:22the start of the academic year, at which the director announced
00:00:25a new regulation, according to Council of
00:00:28Ministers Decree No. 307 on the implementation of security activities,
00:00:32a selective search of students' personal belongings
00:00:35will be organized at the school entrance by employees
00:00:39of the Ministry of Internal Affairs security department. About
00:00:4280 percent of the assembly hall calmly continued to listen,
00:00:46the rest began to whisper among themselves and to themselves,
00:00:49and despite the fact that nothing much was heard, but by their facial expressions
00:00:53and gestures, it was highly likely
00:00:56that they were saying something like: what is happening,
00:00:59and why? Do they have the right, why should we endure this and so
00:01:03on. If these whisperers had just
00:01:06diverted their attention from this process and listened further, they would have
00:01:09learned that nothing fundamentally new had happened. Searches
00:01:13could have been done before, but from September 1st of this year, according to the regulations, it
00:01:16must take place in the presence of a duty teacher, and
00:01:19before, if a police officer had reasonable suspicion, he could still
00:01:23search a student, but in the presence of the child's legal
00:01:27representatives, meaning a father or mother had to be called to school
00:01:30so that their son or daughter could show their backpack. This
00:01:34objective, insurmountable obstacle led to the fact that in
00:01:38practice there were almost no searches, although I emphasize again,
00:01:41the Ministry of Internal Affairs had the right to do so before. I
00:01:45am wholeheartedly in favor of the new regulation, just as I was strictly
00:01:48in favor of banning mobile phones in schools, introduced a year ago.
00:01:51Then too, there was whispering, open arguments with the director, indignant,
00:01:55what will happen if you really need to call your loved ones, and where will they be
00:01:59stored? The phones, and won't they be stolen? And in general,
00:02:03why change anything, if from the point of view of some parents,
00:02:07everything is already fine. I like to rely on personal experience. In
00:02:112004, one of my classmates got a
00:02:14top-of-the-line flip phone with a memory card and a bunch of games on it.
00:02:18And in the company of ninth-graders, math, languages, chemistry,
00:02:22biology, geography, everything else was sent packing,
00:02:25because at the back desks we were constantly playing
00:02:28"worms". This was game number one, I more than assume
00:02:32that this very fact was one of the reasons why some of that
00:02:36company did not enter university, failed the
00:02:38CT, did not get the profession they dreamed of and did not become successful
00:02:42and happy in life. So, there is no place for smartphones
00:02:45in school, here it seems to me there is nothing
00:02:49even to discuss. As for the new search regulations,
00:02:52I dug into my memory to recall what I used to bring to school, despite the fact
00:02:56that I was a good student and not a hooligan. My parents will probably be surprised now: well,
00:03:00what can you do, Dad, Mom, hello to you, at different times I
00:03:03brought a small knife to school, a larger knife, a folding penknife,
00:03:07a butterfly knife, because back then it was particularly fashionable, also
00:03:11at different times I had a brass knuckle in my backpack, a gas
00:03:14canister found somewhere, before the New Year, a small pocket of my backpack was
00:03:18more or less always stuffed with firecrackers, for which, of course, a lighter was needed,
00:03:22and I always had one, although this is, of course,
00:03:25not normal and should not be, especially today.
00:03:28Current children seem to have it harder than us, because their little
00:03:32heads are overloaded with the internet, which they constantly sit on,
00:03:36they can read who knows what and listen to who knows whom,
00:03:39and an unstable child's psyche can fail. While
00:03:43on social networks, some Belarusian parents actively
00:03:47discussed the horror happening in schools with this total
00:03:51police control, in neighboring Russia, where exactly the same
00:03:54children and exactly the same parents exist, on September 1st, in
00:03:58Krasnoyarsk Krai, a...
00:04:09This does not mean that something is worse in Russia, it means that
00:04:13something similar could have happened in Belarus, but it didn't
00:04:17and won't, because we have, as some like to wring their
00:04:20hands, a police state, for
00:04:23which most adequate parents actually thank the police,
00:04:27because if something similar were to
00:04:31happen to us, the same people who were indignant about the new search
00:04:35procedure in schools would discuss with the same zeal
00:04:38why the tragedy happened, how the school and police allowed
00:04:42it, and when will all this end? They have this trick of
00:04:45wringing their hands and suffering over any issue, even
00:04:49in support of conflicting events. Dear
00:04:53parents, the list of items prohibited in school: weapons,
00:04:56ammunition, stabbing and cutting objects, pyrotechnics, flammable
00:05:00liquids, matches, lighters, self-defense means, for example, gas
00:05:04canisters, alcohol, drugs, tobacco products, including
00:05:07electronic smoking systems, and I assure you, every
00:05:11homeroom teacher knows or reasonably suspects which
00:05:14of his students might have something from this list in their backpack, but if
00:05:18before the teacher had to independently demand that
00:05:21the student hand it over, and children, of course, would put up
00:05:25a fight, argue, swear and get on the teacher's nerves,
00:05:28now the teacher just needs to signal the police officer on duty that
00:05:32these kids might have something forbidden with them. That's it, then
00:05:35the search is conducted by a person in uniform, whom you can't really
00:05:39argue with. After two or three such incidents at school,
00:05:42word-of-mouth by October, I assure you, all the hooligans of all
00:05:46schools in the country will be afraid to bring anything dangerous to class,
00:05:50and the goal of the introduction will be achieved. And to those who are against
00:05:53it, I will answer subjectively: there are about a million schoolchildren in Belarus.
00:05:56If on one side of the scale is searching them, even every single one, every day,
00:06:00and on the other, the danger of at least one child getting a knife to the rib
00:06:04in some teenage brawl, at least one eye theoretically shot out with an airsoft
00:06:07or traumatic gun by a boy during a break, at least one
00:06:11girl having a finger torn off by a boy's firecracker from a suitor who didn't
00:06:14come up with a better way to get her attention, not to mention, God forbid,
00:06:18a tragedy involving the death
00:06:21of a child. If it is necessary to search
00:06:25all a million schoolchildren in the country
00:06:28every day for this, it must be done, although it will be more
00:06:32than enough if, as is currently the case in Belarus, searches are conducted selectively,
00:06:35upon reasonable suspicion, at the signal of a teacher.
00:06:38This is all very right, and this is very much for safety in...
00:07:43on another continent, but instead of us deciding what to do
00:07:46on our own continent, we are more or less
00:07:50waiting for what some external forces will say about this,
00:07:54starting with representatives of the country that actually provoked
00:07:57this military conflict. This is not good for China, nor for Russia,
00:08:01nor for economically and politically strong Germany
00:08:04or France, but somehow it has become the norm in the world, and something
00:08:08definitely needs to be done about it, which is what Alexander Lukashenka
00:08:12says. It is possible and necessary to criticize NATO, it is possible and necessary to say that in general, especially before
00:08:15Trump's arrival and the escalation of relations between Washington and Brussels,
00:08:19the North Atlantic Alliance was a geopolitical dictatorship where
00:08:22the USA dictates what to do, and the rest meekly agree,
00:08:26but it was still a powerful, manageable center of power.
00:08:29The hegemon says: we are imposing sanctions, all others instantly
00:08:33comply. Support for some war goes in cascades
00:08:36of group statements, and increased military spending, the deployment
00:08:40of military force to this conflict zone. If anything
00:08:43doesn't suit one of the NATO members, all other
00:08:46allies immediately step in for them. The goals are often
00:08:50monstrous, but the mechanism itself works at a high
00:08:53level, which, to be frank, other unions and
00:08:57associations lack. The SCO
00:09:00is demonstrably a non-military alliance, as are BRICS and many
00:09:03others, but if we talk about the economy, it's the same thing,
00:09:06unified, commanded, and massive pressure from the West on
00:09:10Russia and Belarus, and what's there to say? There is a lack of unity in our
00:09:13alliances; weak countries, medium, strong, they all look out
00:09:17for their own interests first, and allies are
00:09:21asked to understand and forgive them. The further we go, the more obvious
00:09:24it becomes that this cannot continue. Even those countries that
00:09:27tried to sit on two chairs are coming to the conclusion that this process
00:09:31is not the most pleasant and somehow does not lead to the desired
00:09:35result even for them. The nominal current
00:09:38security architecture, represented primarily
00:09:41by the UN and its Security Council, well, everyone
00:09:45understands perfectly that it not only doesn't work, but has even
00:09:48collapsed with a deafening crash. The longer there is no
00:09:51adequate counterbalance with adequate unity in the world,
00:09:55the more often new military conflicts and new economic confrontations
00:09:59will occur on the planet, of which there have already been a lot in recent years.
00:10:03In essence, this is what Alexander Lukashenka is saying, and everyone is saying
00:10:06it, only he is doing it loudly at the highest political level.
00:10:10Nominally, the SCO is half of the
00:10:14economy, potentially the SCO, which includes China, Russia, India, Iran, and other
00:10:18strong countries, is a dominator on the planet, but in fact, in
00:10:22the organization itself, there is no unity yet, from which...
00:10:57we are already afraid to say why, for some reason. Naturally, the President of Belarus' job is to protect the national
00:11:01interests of his country and his people. Naturally, Alexander
00:11:04Lukashenka is primarily concerned that if
00:11:07sanctions are suddenly imposed against Belarus by someone, all partners in the SCO
00:11:11stand up tall and declare, ready to execute this, "Don't dare
00:11:15pressure Minsk, otherwise we will unleash such retaliatory measures
00:11:18that you won't like it." If we are forbidden to fly to the West and they don't fly
00:11:22from there to us, the answer is, "no problem, then we will push
00:11:26Western companies off some routes and give them to Minsk." Banking restrictions
00:11:29are 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
00:11:37operations on our territory, so that you don't get away with it," and so
00:11:41on and so forth. Well, it's clear that NATO and the European Union are much deeper
00:11:44alliances with history, but they need to be caught
00:11:47up with. Of course, one can smile that our opponents,
00:11:51well, yes, they periodically make loud, general statements. Countries
00:13:55do this regularly, because their gold in London, in one
00:13:58of the world's leading financial centers, is more convenient for swap
00:14:02operations and for other investment activities.
00:14:05Yes, in general, according to established practice, if
00:14:08a country wants to buy gold for its reserves, and there is a seller
00:14:12who is not against the deal, for example, Britain, the deal is concluded,
00:14:16but physically the gold, legally belonging to the one
00:14:19who bought it, continues to lie in the seller's vaults. At a
00:14:23basic level, it's silly, but in global terms, this was
00:14:26considered normal. Three years later, Hugo Chávez decided
00:14:30to return Venezuela's gold from all over the world to his country.
00:14:34Due to the predicted crisis in the US and EU, but why
00:14:38should Caracas report to and give reasons to get back
00:14:41its own gold? It was about 160 tons
00:14:45of ingots, of which 31 tons still remained in
00:14:48Great Britain, because London refused to return
00:14:52their gold to Venezuela, citing the policy of allegedly illegitimate. Nicolas Madu,
00:15:12but London still didn't return it and didn't, because it conveniently
00:15:16started considering Juan Guaidó as the allegedly legitimate
00:15:20leader of Venezuela, 4 days after this comrade declared
00:15:24himself allegedly temporary...
00:15:37The Central Bank of Venezuela sued, but of course, the most
00:15:40democratic and allegedly correct judicial system of Great Britain
00:15:44did not satisfy this claim. In June of this year, a tragedy
00:15:48of historical proportions occurred in Venezuela. Two earthquakes claimed
00:15:51the lives of over 6,000 people, 22,000 buildings collapsed,
00:15:55some cities were almost completely wiped off the face of the earth. For
00:15:58the country's recovery, Venezuela needs money, a lot of money. And this
00:16:02issue even united political opponents there.
00:16:06Caracas, in the person of Delcy Rodríguez, who temporarily leads the country
00:16:09after the US kidnapped and exported Nicolas Maduro, on behalf
00:16:13of all political forces in the country appealed to London: return
00:16:17our gold to us. An official letter was even written to King Charles
00:16:20III asking for help. I take off my hat, the Caracas authorities even went
00:16:24to the humiliation for the sake of their people, asking
00:16:27an overseas king to help them get back their own gold. But even
00:16:30after that, nothing happened, as in the famous meme,
00:16:34nothing, just nothing, and it is unlikely
00:16:37that it will ever happen, because
00:16:40as long as Venezuelan gold is in Great Britain, London can
00:16:43influence Caracas's policies, twist their arms, promise to return
00:16:47the ingots for certain necessary decisions, but then deceive them again and put forward
00:16:51ever new conditions. Conclusions have been drawn by everyone in the world.
00:16:54On March 14, 2022, the President signed a decree on
00:16:58additional measures to ensure the stable functioning
00:17:01of the economy, in the development of which the government and the National
00:17:05Bank of Belarus adopted a resolution on the procedure for operations and
00:17:08settlements with measured ingots and with precious stones,
00:17:12in accordance with the norms of this resolution, by order
00:17:16of the Ministry of Finance, the Gomel Kristall holding began to produce
00:17:19its own measured ingots, small ones right away, with denominations
00:17:23of 1, 20, and 50 g, but this is only the beginning. In November 2024,
00:17:26Alexander Lukashenka actually visited Kristall, where he instructed
00:17:30them to import substitute the production of gold measured ingots. The quote
00:17:34then was: "So that we don't import anything from Switzerland."
00:17:37I assume that this is primarily because at any moment Switzerland can
00:17:41refuse to sell us what it sold before, or even
00:17:44refuse to give us what we actually bought and already paid for,
00:17:48but where do we get the gold itself for our measured ingots and for
00:17:52our gold and foreign exchange reserves? The fact is that a month
00:17:55before the visit to Kristall, in October 2024, with the exact
00:17:59same leader of Laos, Alexander Lukashenka had already spoken about
00:18:02the prospects of joint gold mining, this was on the sidelines
00:18:05of the BRICS summit in Kazan. That is, it seems, the president
00:18:09conducts preliminary negotiations with a partner, he flies to
00:18:13Belarus, then he goes to give instructions to produce his own measured
00:18:16ingots and not depend on anyone, as happened with Venezuela, already
00:18:20understanding that Laos will provide us with gold for these ingots.
00:18:23Last week, it seems, the project entered a new stage,
00:18:27especially since the President of Laos stated that Belarus has
00:18:31good experience in gold mining, but we don't actually
00:18:34mine it ourselves, so where does the experience come from?
00:18:37Welcome to Africa, relations with which our
00:18:41president is successfully developing. In Africa, gold is plentiful,
00:18:44and it, especially the unmined gold in the ground, is not more needed
00:18:48than food, medicine, agricultural machinery, and much
00:18:52more that Minsk offers. Surely with most
00:18:55partners in Africa, Belarus is talking about the same joint
00:18:59gold mining as with Laos, we are already mining it there, what's
00:19:02there to say? I think we can also introduce mutual settlements
00:19:06for our conditional tractors there, especially since Western banks are trying to put a
00:19:10spoke in the wheels for both Africa and us. Yes, with Myanmar, for example,
00:19:14we have become closer friends, guess what Myanmar
00:19:16has a lot of? That's right, gold. Everyone noticed our special
00:19:20relations with Uzbekistan, and Tashkent is actually the eighth
00:19:24largest gold producer on the planet, in sixth place
00:19:27in this ranking is such a wonderful country as Ghana, whose president
00:19:31visited Minsk in June of this year.
00:19:34Indonesia is tenth, and was visited by Lukashenka
00:19:38in July of this year. in the ranking of the world's
00:19:42largest gold producers, our two main trading and,
00:19:45even more importantly, political partners. I think everyone
00:19:49understood my logic well, but still, what is very important,
00:19:52the ultimate main goal of the president, in my opinion, is not super-profits
00:19:56from gold, although that is also good. The main thing is that
00:19:59Belarusian gold is physically in Belarus and in sufficient
00:20:03quantities, because it is one of the guarantors of the country's sovereignty
00:20:06and independence. For at least a decade, so
00:20:09that no London, Washington, Brussels, or anyone
00:20:12else, would dare try to manipulate us at their
00:20:15discretion, as they have done, are doing, and will do with other
00:20:19countries similar to ours. Belarus will not
00:20:23allow this trick to be pulled on itself,
00:20:26thanks to the efforts, of course, of the president. My name is Igor
00:20:30Tur, this was my propaganda.
00:22:20not a drop of blood, to be completely honest, for us the standard has always
00:22:23been Western Europe, the pinnacle of well-being, but their
00:22:27well-being is not in anthropological political
00:22:30postmodernism, and we are gradually and confidently
00:22:33improving the life of our country, albeit at the speed of a combine
00:22:36harvesting grain. But now our media policy is not to frighten
00:22:40Belarusians with threats, let them rejoice, clap, root
00:22:44calmly work, but at the same time, we should not forget
00:22:47to be grateful to God, parents, homeland, and...