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00:00:00happen in the life of our society, such
00:00:03studies, they allow us
00:00:06to see what directions
00:00:09of life of our society, what directions
00:00:12of state policy are being implemented, successfully,
00:00:16meet the interests, needs of people, where
00:00:19there are certain issues, that should be put
00:00:23in the focus of attention of the relevant public
00:00:26administration bodies, in the focus of attention.
00:00:30of the media community in order
00:00:33to get
00:00:36the most reliable, complete and exhaustive answers to those
00:00:39questions that interested us, that interested
00:00:42the client, and the client in this study was
00:00:46the Belarusian Institute of Strategic
00:00:48Research, we very carefully approached
00:00:52the formation of our tools, first of all,
00:00:55the tool in this case was a questionnaire, we
00:00:58offered this... questionnaire to be filled out
00:01:01by respondents, residents of 99
00:01:04settlements were surveyed, a
00:01:08representative sample
00:01:11was formed, a sample is those people who
00:01:15directly answered the questions that
00:01:18our interviewers offered. At
00:01:21the core of this sample is primarily
00:01:23the structure of the population of our
00:01:27country, up-to-date data from our
00:01:30national statistical committee, and
00:01:33the sample reflects the male and female
00:01:37структуре генеральной совокупности, мужское и женское
00:01:40population, residents of large
00:01:43cities, and small settlements,
00:01:47the sample includes the population with
00:01:50different levels of education, with different marital
00:01:54status, and this allows us
00:01:57today to use the results of this study and
00:02:01consider them as truly accurate
00:02:05diagnostics of the opinions that our
00:02:08respondents shared with us, well,
00:02:12in general, the need to conduct such a large-scale
00:02:16study is dictated by
00:02:18the fact that we
00:02:21are now participating in the implementation of the program
00:02:25of socio-economic development
00:02:26of the country, the first year.
00:03:00values talked about peace, and
00:03:03indeed peace, how can this be explained from the point of view of both
00:03:07sociology and philosophy, why has such a value come to
00:03:10the leading position today? I believe that
00:03:13here we must first of all start from
00:03:17our domestic Belarusian realities, we live under a peaceful
00:03:20sky, we all have the opportunity
00:03:24to engage in work, get
00:03:28education, spend our free time
00:03:31as we wish,
00:03:34and not especially worry about
00:03:37something happening,
00:03:40or rather, it is necessary to worry about it, but
00:03:43what we see outside our country, it
00:03:47especially emphasizes the importance of living in peaceful
00:03:50conditions, therefore the value of a peaceful life is
00:03:54primarily dictated by
00:03:57the ability to compare, to contrast what is happening with us and what
00:04:01is happening, unfortunately, in other
00:04:04countries, in other regions of the world. And how sometimes this peace can be fragile? And hence
00:04:08it is necessary to conclude that
00:04:11in order to maintain it, efforts are needed not only from
00:04:15law enforcement agencies, the military-industrial complex, the army, not
00:04:19only from the state itself, but also from
00:04:23each of us, the president constantly talks about
00:04:25this, that you
00:04:28work, good. give me the economy, the rest
00:04:32of the issues are my competence, and it must be said that
00:04:35this competence
00:04:38is fully implemented here, but this is no reason
00:04:41to believe that since it has been so
00:04:45for almost 100
00:04:48years, the Great Patriotic War ended in 1945,
00:04:51that this peaceful sky is
00:04:54absolutely guaranteed to us, without our own efforts,
00:04:58without work with
00:05:12an absolutely everyday comparative
00:05:15analysis, but undoubtedly here
00:05:18our traditional life wisdom, traditional
00:05:21values, to
00:05:24which we sometimes are more skeptical
00:05:28than required, in fact, the well-known
00:05:31expression that
00:05:34there should be no war, however paradoxical, but
00:05:38the first quarter
00:05:41of the century is already ending, it is more relevant than
00:05:44ever, therefore at the basis of such a distribution
00:05:47of opinions here, strictly speaking, are also the opinions of people who
00:05:51focus their attention on this, our life
00:05:55philosophy, which proves its worth in this regard,
00:05:58in the list of what Belarus
00:06:02is proud of, social protection, quality of products,
00:06:05cleanliness of cities, preservation
00:06:08of historical memory were also especially opinion, how do these values...
00:07:43of our character, our mentality, our culture,
00:07:46the desire for order, the desire for harmony, the desire to do everything not
00:07:50just productively, efficiently,
00:07:54but to do everything beautifully, this
00:07:57whole set of values, it expresses and
00:08:01represents the result not only of those
00:08:04areas of activity that the state
00:08:07implements, but it also reflects our
00:08:11own inner world. we live like
00:08:14this at home, we organize our
00:08:17working life, our daily life,
00:08:21we strive for this, so in aggregate, why is this so,
00:08:24well, this is our everything, this is who we are,
00:08:27and you have already spoken twice today about work, that you really need to be
00:08:31very attentive to your workplace
00:08:35and indeed, if everyone works professionally and well,
00:08:39this is the basis of both security and the well-being of all.
00:09:12work a lot or work less, relax more, so
00:09:15more than half of the respondents, when answering
00:09:19the question, what do you want, to work more,
00:09:23to work more or to have a small level
00:09:26of income, but more free time, so
00:09:30more than half of our respondents, more
00:09:33than 50%, chose the option to work more
00:09:37and accordingly earn more, approximately
00:09:40every third respondent...
00:10:55in this particular study is the age group from 18 to
00:10:5930 years old, and I can
00:11:02assume that, probably for that part
00:11:06that is still in college,
00:11:09which has not yet started its own family,
00:11:12obviously for this group, it will be a greater priority,
00:11:16probably the trend
00:11:19to somehow have more free time,
00:11:22but already after
00:11:26as they get older, when people come to their
00:11:29workplace, when they start to understand more clearly
00:11:31that life success is achieved through work,
00:11:35everything that we aspire to, everything that we strive for,
00:11:39it can only be achieved through work, here these accents
00:11:42shift, well, and for an older category
00:11:46of respondents, for that category that
00:11:49is already retired, there, absolutely,
00:11:53probably reasonably. to a certain
00:11:56extent, career, professional success,
00:12:00self-realization is a matter, well,
00:12:03of the present, and a little bit of the past, and there is more
00:12:07desire to focus on
00:12:09managing one's free time, this is also
00:12:13a wonderful trend, it means that it indicates
00:12:17that there is an opportunity to truly
00:12:19concentrate on other aspects of one's
00:12:22life, if we talk about quality. life, the
00:12:26data say that 88% are satisfied
00:12:29with the work of trade, 65%
00:12:32are satisfied with healthcare, more than 60% with housing and communal services,
00:12:35these are quite high indicators, even in general, if we take
00:12:39the average world indicators of developed, developing countries
00:12:43and so on, but what lies behind those who were really dissatisfied, we
00:12:47are talking today about the majority of results, when people are really
00:12:50satisfied, but there are, we understand, that there are dissatisfied people, this is absolutely
00:12:53normal. what problems do they mention
00:12:57and how do you then transmit these
00:13:00signals to the relevant services, so that this can also
00:13:02be worked on, I will go back a little
00:13:06to the beginning of the question, I want to say
00:13:09that the figures that you
00:13:11announced, some figures I can repeat, 88%
00:13:15of those surveyed positively answered the question that yes
00:13:19they are dissatisfied with trade, 65%,
00:13:22with healthcare, more than 60%.
00:14:25leisure develops, the quality of life improves,
00:14:28accordingly, this indicates
00:14:32that the demands that were once
00:14:36earlier, are satisfied, new demands appear,
00:14:40this desire to live
00:14:43better, this is an absolutely normal, natural desire of
00:14:45the state,
00:14:48firstly, to a large extent these demands
00:14:51are satisfied, but secondly, it must be
00:14:54said that the orientation towards
00:14:58a welfare state, the orientation towards
00:15:01someone having to provide all these
00:15:05benefits, it still has to imply
00:15:08the reverse measurement, one's own contribution to the development
00:15:11of the economy, to the improvement of one's settlements,
00:15:15to maintaining order in the workplace,
00:15:19in one's city, here
00:15:23these very problems.
00:15:25moments, they are connected with the fact that one wants
00:15:29more, one has become accustomed to good things, and we pay attention to
00:15:32those shortcomings that we did not consider necessary
00:15:35before, even...
00:15:39As for indeed
00:15:42those questions that our respondents pay attention to, they
00:15:45are certainly present,
00:15:49the shelves of all Belarusian stores are filled with
00:15:51goods of various quality, in various price ranges these
00:15:55goods are presented, but as one of the questions, and
00:15:59there is no news here,
00:16:03Belarusians are worried that prices are rising, these
00:16:06issues... are under
00:16:09close control of
00:16:11the state,
00:16:13but how much can this price increase be stopped,
00:16:17how problematic these
00:16:20issues are, at least within our
00:16:23research, we at least draw attention to the fact
00:16:26that for the residents of our
00:16:29country this is, well,
00:16:32such a point, so to speak, a point
00:16:36of attention...
00:17:07queues in clinics and hospitals,
00:17:10sometimes it's difficult to get
00:17:13a consultation with the necessary specialist,
00:17:16the problem of the shortage of medical
00:17:19personnel also exists, for this
00:17:22the state is doing a very serious job, in particular,
00:17:25enrollment in medical universities for state-funded
00:17:29education is significantly expanding, these are
00:17:32issues that certainly did not appear
00:17:36today, not here and now, but at the same time, it must be
00:17:39understood that within, say, one admission
00:17:43campaign or graduation campaign from a university, on a national
00:17:47scale, to answer all such
00:17:50problematic issues is also quite difficult, if at all
00:17:54possible, therefore this is a priority that is
00:17:58in the focus of attention of both the head of state and the government,
00:18:01if we talk about housing and communal
00:18:04services, yes, we...
00:19:12In this regard, we are grateful to our journalist colleagues who provide an opportunity to convey to everyone who wants to hear
00:19:16this picture of things. The second point is related to the fact
00:19:19that when designing this study, our clients were
00:19:23given a strict requirement to obtain
00:19:26the most objective picture. Well, the third
00:19:29point, work on the tools,
00:19:33on those problematic issues that we planned to study.
00:19:38we attracted
00:19:41a number of experts who helped
00:19:43to crystallize precisely those topics, those
00:19:47questions that are directly in the focus
00:19:50of attention of public administration bodies, and of course, always
00:19:54in the focus of attention of the head of state, so such
00:19:57complex work allowed us, in this case, for now
00:20:01we are presenting a block that we call
00:20:04socio-economic assessments, socio-economic.
00:20:07aspects, we still have a block of questions
00:20:11related to the assessment of the socio-political situation
00:20:14in society and another block of questions that concerns those, as
00:20:18it were, resonant questions that concern
00:20:21ordinary citizens, that is, this will be in three stages, you will tell us in three stages, but it is worth
00:20:25completing this topic, about which you spoke, you briefly mentioned and
00:20:29quite modestly that the indicators are growing, but in these 5 years, what a
00:20:32large-scale work the state has done in each of these areas, we are not
00:20:36talking about growth.
00:20:50queues and so on, speaking of housing and communal services, yes, new services
00:20:53where you can leave applications today, sometimes we just keep silent about it, but
00:20:57the state does a huge job, thank you for this, and
00:21:01to the Institute for Strategic Studies, that all these questions do not just remain
00:21:04somewhere and work continues, it is also interesting to know
00:21:08about the fact that the study covered all
00:21:11regions, it is very interesting, are there differences between, for example,
00:21:15residents of the capital, they always say, Minsk thinks differently,
00:21:19you have it like that. we have it like that, but our head of state
00:21:22always says that everyone should have equal conditions, access to
00:21:26all resources, and tell us, are there these differences
00:21:30between regional centers, residents of rural areas, the capital
00:21:33in priority, level of perhaps satisfaction and so on,
00:21:37yes, of course, certain differences exist, but for
00:21:40all that, such differences are not
00:21:44some, so to speak, resonant,
00:21:48fundamental. urban
00:21:51areas
00:21:59do not exist, well, since I said that
00:22:02certain differences, of course, exist,
00:22:06residents of the capital, residents of large cities,
00:22:09they are more critically minded towards
00:22:12certain aspects of their life, towards certain
00:22:16aspects. uh,
00:22:20that characterize the development of this settlement. Rural residents
00:22:24in this regard are more loyal. As
00:22:27for the assessment of the quality of life,
00:22:30the standard of living, well, for example, higher
00:22:34ratings for these aspects
00:22:36of activity were given by residents of the Grodno
00:22:39region, but at the same time, when asked
00:22:43how happy they feel, how satisfied they
00:22:46are with their situation,
00:22:50very high indicators were
00:22:52demonstrated by residents of the Vitebsk region, this
00:22:56reflects not only
00:23:00the fact that our, our assessment
00:23:03of everything or our assessments of everything that is happening are determined
00:23:06by the level of wealth, there are many other factors here, in general,
00:23:10if we talk about
00:23:12the situation that is characteristic for the residents of the Republic of Belarus in
00:23:16general and those critical assessments, positive
00:23:20assessments, they are promptly communicated
00:23:22to the government bodies,
00:23:26recalling the previous question, I want to add
00:23:30that the presentation that
00:23:33is currently taking place thanks to you, for which many
00:23:36thanks, it is not a single act, we
00:23:39promptly inform about the results of the conducted
00:23:42research to our government, and
00:23:46this information becomes
00:23:50widely available, thanks to the fact that
00:23:53journalists are interested in the data of public
00:23:57opinion polls, therefore the feedback
00:24:00works in those directions
00:24:04that you mentioned, the growth
00:24:07of satisfaction with the work of trade
00:24:11facilities, with opportunities for
00:24:14leisure activities, this is also a consequence of the fact that
00:24:17local authorities respond to those
00:24:20moments of dissatisfaction, to those moments that
00:24:24are problematic, they are not points of application of effort,
00:24:27and such
00:24:30communication enables us
00:24:34to develop further, the Day of National
00:24:36Unity is approaching, it is very interesting how the intersection of interests of different
00:24:40groups of the Belarusian population, we talked with you about the gender composition,
00:24:43age composition, different regions,
00:24:46how does the intersection of interests help strengthen.
00:25:20our surveys do not record any differences, not
00:25:24just fundamental, but even significant differences in the assessment of certain
00:25:27aspects of our life between men and women, between
00:25:31urban and rural residents, between those who live in large
00:25:35cities and regional centers,
00:25:38yes, between age groups, certain differences
00:25:42certainly exist, but these differences are precisely the basis for
00:25:45concentrating
00:25:48to a greater extent certain
00:25:51directions, efforts of either the state
00:25:54as a whole, or local authorities, on some key
00:25:58issues related to, somewhere with the improvement of cities, somewhere with
00:26:01the equipping of leisure places,
00:26:05somewhere with the creation of new jobs,
00:26:08when we talk about the general
00:26:11consolidation of society, about unity, I
00:26:15believe we can safely say that this tradition,
00:26:18the tradition,
00:26:22the tradition of working together, the tradition of celebrating
00:26:25holidays together, free time,
00:26:28this tradition is those deep foundations,
00:27:32an example of how through
00:27:35creation one can build the future, well, that's precisely
00:27:39about the future, our traditional forecast, with
00:27:42each guest we try to predict what
00:27:45Belarusian society will look like in 5 years, in terms of
00:27:48sociology, it is very interesting, in your opinion, in 5 years, what will
00:27:52sociology look like, yes, when a new survey will be conducted, what
00:27:56challenges might we face during this time and perhaps what new
00:27:59values might come to the forefront, well, now we practically at
00:28:03each of our current microphones talk about the challenge
00:28:06of artificial intelligence, the possibility when it penetrates our
00:28:10lives even more, and values may change somehow, so your
00:28:13short lightning forecast,
00:28:17well, I will try to present my reflections on this topic, regarding
00:28:21sociology, our institute actively
00:28:25works, attracts and invites young
00:28:28specialists, graduates of relevant specialties, we have
00:28:31sociologists and political scientists
00:28:34and those university graduates who
00:28:38studied other specialties, therefore, in relation to
00:28:42the development trend
00:28:45for the continuation of such
00:28:48research, here I look to the future with absolute
00:28:52optimism, a hardworking team, talented
00:28:55researchers who are united by a common
00:28:58idea and a desire to work for the good of the country, for the good...
00:29:32very important here is a trivial
00:29:35thing, but working with people's minds, working with public consciousness, with
00:29:38individual consciousness, what we are doing now, the challenges of artificial
00:29:42intelligence, undoubtedly, very serious
00:29:45challenges, demographic challenges are very serious, but I think
00:29:49that those priorities that the state
00:29:53positions as the most important for
00:29:57strengthening our country, for the development of Belarusian
00:30:00statehood, they...
00:31:03this will undoubtedly ensure that we fulfill not only the plans
00:31:06for socio-economic development, but also further successful
00:31:10development and maintenance of peace and well-being of our citizens. Thank you
00:31:13for your answers.
00:32:15question, thank you, the question is serious, the question
00:32:17is professional, therefore I want to thank
00:32:21the respected listener for their attention, for
00:32:25such a very
00:32:27reasonable approach, uh, 2000
00:32:31respondents, we surveyed a little over 2,000 respondents,
00:32:34this is a sufficient volume of the sample to
00:32:38be able to discuss the
00:32:41results that
00:32:45we are presenting. With your permission, I will not
00:32:48delve into the calculation methodology, although I can
00:32:51present it, this
00:32:53corresponds
00:32:56to the practices that are implemented not only
00:32:59in our institute, the sample size of up to
00:33:032,000 people is representative
00:33:07to draw such conclusions, as
00:33:09for parts one, two,
00:33:13three, well...
00:34:15The Institute of Sociology conducts surveys throughout the country, exactly,
00:34:19three very interesting questions came from the regions,
00:34:22here is a call from Mozyr,
00:34:26do you plan to conduct a social survey only
00:34:29regionally, for example, in the Gomel region,
00:34:32given that there are the most Chernobyl spots there,
00:34:36the land is being revived,
00:34:39and maybe it raises relevant questions
00:34:42like that, because well, maybe this is... in April
00:34:46days, it's up to you to decide? Dear Elena
00:34:49Nikolaevna, dear listeners, the Institute
00:34:53of Sociology,
00:34:56for already, I can confidently say, several
00:35:00decades, since the early 2000s and
00:35:03even earlier, actually, soon after
00:35:06the accident at
00:35:10the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Belarusian sociologists
00:35:13drew attention to this
00:35:45problem as a comprehensive problem, and it was
00:35:48shown that
00:35:51the consequences of the Chernobyl accident are not
00:35:55only that the territories are contaminated, not only that
00:35:58there is colossal economic damage, the scale
00:36:01of which cannot be accurately calculated, it is also
00:36:04a social catastrophe,
00:36:08socio-demographic, socio-psychological,
00:36:11and we conduct such studies constantly, the topic
00:36:15of Chernobyl territories is in the focus of attention of our sociologists, specialized
00:36:18conferences are held, and we
00:36:21conduct such studies constantly, and we also
00:36:25present the results of such studies.
00:36:28and as
00:36:30for
00:36:33the conduct of regional studies in general, within
00:36:37the framework of our current study, we talk and can talk
00:36:40in more detail about the situation that is characteristic of individual
00:36:44regions, for certain territories, we truly
00:36:47represent the population of the entire country, and last but not least, in
00:36:50Gomel there are wonderful professors
00:36:53Kiriyenko, works at the university.
00:37:27and where else can we be cautious?
00:37:30two, two interesting ideas, from Grodno and from
00:37:33Vitebsk. Grodno, says, I listened yesterday to a report from
00:37:37the presentation of your social research, I think it
00:37:40took place at Belexpo, he even knows where. How do you like this
00:37:43idea: to survey the border regions?
00:37:47Uh, so, many live not far from the Baltics,
00:37:51many live not far from Poland, how do they live, what
00:37:54would they like to change? Here is one such. Answering this
00:37:58question, indeed, we
00:38:01study and need to study not only the population
00:38:05of the country as a whole, in the context of individual regions, there is
00:38:09a wide range of topics for individual special studies, as
00:38:13for the topic of border regions,
00:38:16there was a, well, it continues to exist, school
00:38:20for studying border regions at Grodno State
00:38:23University Minyanki
00:41:06for studying
00:41:09the topic, the role of women,
00:41:13this topic is being studied by us quite
00:41:16actively, in particular,
00:41:19our institute on October 29-30
00:41:22is holding a large conference, this is the sixth international
00:41:26conference,
00:41:40in the life of modern society, its priorities, values
00:41:44and a number of other issues,
00:41:48therefore, for example, taking
00:41:51the opportunity to be here, I will emphasize once again, please
00:41:55pay attention to the website of the Institute of Sociology, where you can
00:41:58find information about this event, I invite everyone who is
00:42:02interested to participate, to attend, to come,
00:42:04to be at this event, as
00:42:08for demography itself, of course... this is a complex question,
00:42:11and I want to say that in our
00:42:14study, we also paid attention
00:42:17to a number of aspects of this topic, we
00:42:21asked respondents the question, how many
00:42:23children would you like to have or already have,
00:42:27the second question, how many children would you like to have if
00:42:31your conditions, material conditions, would significantly
00:42:34change, what I want to say is, the preference
00:42:38is for two children.
00:42:48in real-life conditions, about 12% of respondents said that they
00:42:52have or would like to have two children,
00:42:55if the conditions were different,
00:42:5822% named three children,
00:43:01how to evaluate this fact? on the one hand, yes, of course, we can
00:43:04talk about a certain reserve, 10% of the population
00:43:08they, with... the direction
00:44:11we are also working on, studying the opinions
00:44:14of people, their moods in order to
00:44:17provide relevant information to state administration bodies. Two more questions,
00:44:21please, very interesting ones, and where can one find the full
00:44:24list of questions, answers, will it
00:44:27be published on your website,
00:44:31and this is also from Vitebsk, they called,
00:44:34so, maybe, conduct a survey among
00:44:37the elderly, are they satisfied with the level?
00:44:40of pensions, do they work in their specialty, if
00:44:43they work after graduation, they proposed this
00:44:46topic, well, in continuation,
00:44:49a woman slightly disagrees with you,
00:44:53so, you said
00:44:56that when the question was asked, how
00:44:59do you want to live, earn more, so that you earn
00:45:02more, work more, or on the contrary not work, so that you have more
00:45:06free time, there was such a question, I think, you had it, right? So
00:45:09here. she says: so what, she says, to ask,
00:45:13it is clear that this young generation, it is already provided for by
00:45:16the older generation, they have apartments, they have
00:45:20cars, so they, of course, can not work, and
00:45:23relax, so it is, also, so
00:46:40Therefore, when we talk about what to do next, we
00:46:43focus on the need for
00:46:46systematic and comprehensive work, and here
00:46:49that work plays a very important role. that work.
00:47:52in printed media you can find this information in newspapers,
00:47:56we are actively working with journalists, so this
00:48:00information is brought to the attention of everyone who
00:48:03might be interested, it is in open access in
00:48:07the space, our media works
00:57:41The West, Milosevic said, is a chained rabid dog that will
00:57:44always bite your throat, it has a life.
00:58:17which they provoked, the war in Chechnya, which they sponsored,
00:58:21to finish, to finish, to destroy, we hate, it doesn't
00:58:24matter, it is hateful to them by itself, they cannot
00:58:28allow it, because sooner or later their people will say, maybe
00:58:32we will
00:58:32try that,