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00:00:00settlements constantly new ones,
00:00:04we introduce into our selection procedure
00:00:07and eventually we surveyed
00:00:11a very large number of people during
00:00:14these surveys, so the opinions of not all,
00:00:18certainly, but many Belarusians are taken into account, and
00:00:21thus, yes, given that certain people belong
00:00:25to certain societies, including
00:00:28united ones.
00:00:53feel themselves, identify themselves as citizens of a sovereign, independent, free, democratic country, feel themselves primarily as citizens of Belarus, and you
00:00:56noted that this is characteristic of all generations. That is, in principle,
00:01:00these figures were very, very
00:01:03high everywhere. What does this mean? What could be behind these figures? Is it the results
00:01:07of the state's work, is it a natural feeling of every citizen, or
00:01:11is it due to external pressure? We touched on part of this topic,
00:01:15but what can these figures tell us? Well, if we talk
00:01:18specifically about the overwhelming majority of the country's
00:01:21residents identifying themselves as
00:01:24citizens of Belarus and calling themselves citizens of Belarus, this
00:01:28reflects... absolutely everything, including
00:01:31the attitude towards their small homeland, the attitude towards
00:01:35our country as a whole here, and the attitude towards the state here,
00:01:38an understanding that living on
00:01:41the territory of our country at the present time,
00:01:44working, engaging in a wide
00:01:47range of other issues - this
00:01:50is primarily the opportunity to live, create in peacetime,
00:01:53the opportunity to engage in creative work,
00:01:57the opportunity to feel safe, that's... these
00:02:00are all attributes of our modern
00:02:02statehood, although for all that, this does not
00:02:05exclude the fact that Belarusians are very reverent and respectful
00:02:09of what we call the small homeland.
00:02:12Belarusians identify themselves, of course, with that
00:02:16or another nation, of which they
00:02:19are a part, with that or another confession, these
00:02:22are all signs, characteristics of our
00:02:26identity, but the events of recent years.
00:03:00identity, civic, state identity,
00:03:03although each of these categories implies its own more
00:03:07narrow content, nevertheless,
00:03:10national state identity
00:03:14in the minds of Belarusians today
00:03:16is clearly leading, the overwhelming majority
00:03:20of Belarusians trust our president,
00:03:2387.6%.
00:03:26What is the leader's role in unifying society, what else? How else did
00:03:30respondents answer this question? I understand it was posed more broadly,
00:03:34how do they feel today,
00:03:36in general, their belonging,
00:03:38including to this common trust in our
00:03:41Head of State? Belarusians expressed
00:03:45a very high level of trust in the Head of State, such assessments
00:03:48are absolutely justified, the Head of State
00:03:52is doing tremendous work to
00:03:55ensure the security of the Belarusian state. The topic
00:03:58of our security is repeatedly emphasized,
00:04:02absolutely justly, and
00:04:06is a source of our common pride. The Head
00:04:09of State is doing a very serious, very
00:04:13large-scale, very systematic work to
00:04:16ensure a comfortable life for all citizens of our
00:04:19country. This work includes a wide range
00:04:23of areas, and the assessments that
00:04:27our respondents expressed, this is...
00:05:00the work done by the head of state,
00:05:03and by other government bodies,
00:05:07and a very important
00:05:10role in this work, and the president emphasizes:
00:06:12it is very important for absolutely all participants
00:06:16of our process, the socio-political
00:06:18process, subjects of civil society,
00:06:22we need to understand that the efforts of the Belarusian
00:06:26state are reflected
00:06:29in the minds of people. Well, in developing
00:06:32the topic, in the course of the research, the so-called
00:06:36formula for political success of Belarus was also formulated,
00:06:39this is peace...
00:07:42we raise in the process of solving our
00:07:46internal issues, nevertheless, at the core of everything
00:07:50really lies production, at the core of everything
00:07:53is people, at the core of everything lies an understanding of responsibility
00:07:57for what is happening, and of course it is very
00:08:00important in this extremely difficult time,
00:08:04although we note that times are not always difficult, and nevertheless,
00:08:07it is very important to have a clear
00:08:10understanding of how we...
00:09:12that in general, according to the results of the study, one can observe
00:09:16such a trend that trust in all government institutions is increasing, as you said, including the Council of Ministers,
00:09:20the legislative branch, the judiciary.
00:09:24So, the All-Belarusian People's Assembly changed
00:09:27its status during this period, over the last 5 years, and
00:09:30we also see from the results of the study that
00:09:34trust is growing, over 70, more than
00:09:3870% of respondents answered positively, that
00:09:41they trust the All-Belarusian People's Assembly. In general, also, in your opinion,
00:09:45considering that you are deeply immersed in the
00:09:48aspirations of our entire
00:09:52Belarusian society, why do we generally observe
00:09:55this trend of trust today, and especially towards
00:09:59the All-Belarusian People's Assembly? When we
00:10:01talk about the social sentiments of Belarusians, about
00:10:05how they evaluate
00:10:08the effectiveness of our entire large state machine,
00:10:12we must understand that the state
00:10:16is simultaneously represented in our consciousness
00:10:19by the activities of the Head of State and
00:10:22by the activities and...
00:10:55and high and, one might say, largely
00:10:58similar, because
00:11:01we do not make any particular fundamental
00:11:05distinctions in evaluating the effectiveness
00:11:08of various structures, and this is true, and
00:11:11such structures themselves
00:11:14do not give us any reason to doubt
00:11:18how effectively they work, but as for the role
00:11:22of the All-Belarusian...
00:12:29and delegates, we appreciate the importance of the state's efforts to diversify this system of public administration.
00:12:33It is obvious that the All-Belarusian People's
00:12:36Assembly, taking into account
00:12:39the role it now plays in the system of political
00:12:42relations, will continue to demonstrate and
00:12:46implement itself, and further
00:12:49demonstrate the
00:12:53very serious opportunities
00:12:56that were embedded in the design
00:13:00of this transformation
00:13:03at certain previous
00:13:06stages. An interesting research trend is a positive
00:13:10attitude towards socially responsible entrepreneurship, and
00:13:13a demand for support of private initiative,
00:13:16farmers, how does this generally combine with
00:13:19our social state? This
00:13:22really provides that very opportunity for absolutely anyone, everyone, to
00:13:26express themselves, to create these conditions, so that you can absolutely
00:13:30express yourself in any capacity as a professional,
00:13:33what are the results of the research regarding
00:13:36entrepreneurship and support for entrepreneurship? Well, here we need to
00:13:39say that the existing legal framework
00:13:43in our country, the existing conditions
00:13:45for doing business, they offer
00:13:49the population various forms
00:13:51to show their activity, their independence... to unlock
00:13:55their potential, there are indeed
00:13:59many such opportunities, we have no obstacles
00:14:02that would force
00:14:05a person to choose either this or
00:14:09that sphere of their activity, the sphere of
00:14:12entrepreneurship is developing so
00:14:15that, well, perhaps more
00:14:18objectively to assess the state of affairs in this area, we need
00:14:22to take into account, in my opinion,
00:14:55continues to work effectively, but for all
00:14:58that, the mechanism that existed was not
00:15:02oriented towards freedom of entrepreneurship, towards
00:15:05the free development of the market, towards freedom of creativity in this
00:15:09sphere, certain changes
00:15:11occurred, in fact, only in the eighties,
00:15:15during this period of time, to develop
00:15:19the entrepreneurship market in the broadest sense of the
00:15:22word, is probably objectively impossible. This
00:15:26is the sphere of our economic activity that
00:15:28is, well, in a state of formation, in a state of
00:15:32development, the legislative
00:15:35framework is being updated. The conditions
00:15:38of economic activity
00:15:39are changing in a certain way,
00:15:42people understand, accept,
00:15:45that this sphere can be a sphere of their
00:15:49self-realization, but this
00:15:52process of formation, it is going on naturally,
00:15:55the state encourages citizens' initiatives and creates
00:15:59the necessary conditions for this,
00:16:02how ready we ourselves are to show our conditions, how ready we
00:16:06ourselves are to take risks, how
00:16:10ready we ourselves are to take
00:16:13responsibility, this is the second, no less important
00:16:17side of the coin, it is no secret that
00:16:20paternalistic sentiments, the hope that
00:16:23the state is called upon to provide us with everything necessary, they are very
00:16:26strong for representatives of different
00:16:30generations, yes, young people in this regard
00:16:33are more mobile, more active,
00:16:36well, if we evaluate the sphere
00:16:39of entrepreneurship as a whole, it's not just young people, there are
00:16:43representatives of very different age groups and
00:16:45professions, and I believe
00:16:48that this component of our
00:16:51mechanism will continue to develop,
00:16:55some rapid changes, the head of state
00:16:58said yesterday, we need to think, we need to work quickly, but
00:17:02at the same time not rush, so changes in this area
00:17:06must also occur.
00:18:07not so much a thick
00:18:10wallet, maximum comfortable
00:18:13housing, an expensive car,
00:18:16other attributes with which we
00:18:19associate prosperity, happiness, first of all it is
00:18:23the state of a person, a human soul,
00:18:26human consciousness, human behavior, it is
00:18:29emotional experiences, emotional experiences, at
00:18:32the core of which lies the feeling of the fullness of one's
00:18:36being, the feeling...
00:19:07but it does not stem only from material
00:19:11well-being, although, of course, if we talk about
00:19:14the components and conditions of life - this is also
00:19:18an important, important component of happiness, this is
00:19:21the presence of loved ones, beloved people
00:19:24nearby, this is also a very important component of happiness,
00:19:27happiness is a peaceful life, happiness is
00:19:31a very complex, intricate construct, indeed our
00:19:34research has shown and this is very...
00:20:37make much greater efforts, but a person
00:20:41works when he performs his
00:20:44task, there is also the question of whether the tasks were correctly
00:20:47formulated, and the goals set. a clear and
00:20:50control system should be in place, and a motivation system,
00:20:53but if we achieve certain
00:20:57results that satisfy us, we
00:21:00feel comfortable, therefore,
00:21:03there are no fundamental differences in the level of happiness between
00:21:07residents of large and small cities, between
00:21:10residents of certain regions and
00:21:13the capital, it might even be the other way around, where
00:21:17living conditions are most comfortable.
00:22:36of Sociology, both short-term plans for your
00:22:38research, and long-term ones, maybe what you are thinking about, maybe
00:22:41what you are dreaming about, yes, how do you plan
00:22:45to develop science, sociology, in your opinion,
00:22:49the institute as a whole?
00:22:52what we think about, what we plan, what
00:22:55we dream about. As for the plans
00:22:58of the Institute of Sociology, in the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
00:23:02as a whole, priority areas are defined and
00:23:05scientific research is being carried out, plans for our
00:23:08work for the current five-year period, for the current year, for
00:23:12subsequent years, are defined. A wide range of issues are in our attention,
00:23:15which interests us, as scientists, as
00:23:18researchers, which...
00:23:50research by state administration bodies,
00:23:53this is our media space, and
00:23:56we work very actively, practically with almost all
00:23:59our leading media, with the Ministry of Information, and
00:24:03the field of research is wide, I
00:24:06believe, I am just
00:24:09confident that we have the potential
00:24:13to successfully implement these tasks,
00:24:15it is fundamentally important that we have
00:24:19the opportunity and see interest from
00:24:22journalists, from representatives of the real sector
00:24:25of the economy in referring to
00:24:29the results of our research, in order to use them
00:24:31in various areas of their activity, well, ultimately all our
00:24:35research work, all our implementation work
00:24:39is aimed at ensuring that Belarusians
00:24:43understand, and the state, the authorities understand,
00:24:46that ...
00:25:20are ready to participate in the discussion of these
00:25:53so, the second part of your
00:25:56social survey, the listener asks such a question, this
00:25:59question caused a great public resonance.
00:26:33We did not ask such questions, because we asked questions
00:26:37to the residents of our country, we are primarily interested in
00:26:41the opinion of those who walk on the same
00:26:44streets as us, who live our life, who watch
00:28:03who, with his policy, forms
00:28:06such an environment, such conditions that allow
00:28:09us to unleash our economic potential, without
00:28:13using any super-resources for this. Our
00:28:16resources are land, it is people, it is
00:28:20our intellect, it is our readiness to work, and nevertheless,
00:28:24by mobilizing these resources, we
00:28:27achieve very serious results, and this
00:28:30is primarily the most important achievement of the head of state,
00:28:34trust in the All-Belarusian People's Assembly, did you have such
00:28:38a question, yes, the BPC is a relatively
00:28:41young state entity,
00:28:45of course, if we don't take the historical aspect, that's
00:28:49how your question was posed, and
00:28:52it wasn't only, for example, the middle and older generation that answered, but also
00:28:55young people, who was most interested in
00:28:59state policy? It was
00:29:02precisely with regard to the All-Belarusian People's
00:29:06Assembly, did young people give interesting answers or, conversely,
00:29:10older people? The question of trust in the All-Belarusian
00:29:13People's Assembly, the question of trust in other
00:29:17government bodies, it
00:29:20was formulated precisely in this way: how much do you
00:29:24trust? Here, when
00:29:26constructing this question, we did not make any distinctions so
00:29:30that all government bodies,
00:29:33whose opinion
00:29:36of the people we are interested in, were in absolutely the same
00:29:39position, therefore, I will repeat once again that trust
00:29:43in all institutions of state power is at a very high
00:29:47level. As for the division of opinions of
00:29:50younger and older respondents, here on
00:29:54many positions, I will not now specifically
00:29:57talk about how the opinions of people were distributed when answering
00:30:00the question of trust.
00:30:32relations are even more critical, more cautious,
00:30:36this is a certain component of our mentality, as for both
00:30:39the BPC and other government bodies,
00:30:42there are no polar assessments,
00:30:45differing ones, evidence that the younger
00:30:49generation is involved in the processes
00:30:52of state building, it does not
00:30:55overlook what is happening at
00:30:58the level of the highest state administration.
00:31:00This also evokes a certain interest, perhaps not as great as among
00:31:04representatives of older generations, but the trust of
00:31:07young people is no less than that of representatives of older
00:31:11generations.
00:31:57representatives of civil society, it includes
00:32:00journalists, I think, necessarily,
00:32:03interested in this our young
00:32:06citizens, all these issues are studied by
00:32:09specialists, and lawyers, political scientists, and
00:32:22perhaps, one can, of course, think about creating some
00:32:25special structures, but in my opinion, first, there are already
00:32:29enough of them, and second, our
00:32:32mass media, our government bodies, they are
00:32:36maximally open to hear the opinions of all and everyone, and
00:32:40to explain, and to answer some questions, our...
00:32:42какие-то вопросы, наши...
00:34:15these, so to speak, actions, or does the referendum have
00:34:18a wider, more large-scale audience? These
00:34:22are different goals, a referendum is held to
00:34:26provide an opportunity for absolutely
00:34:28every resident of our country to express their
00:34:32opinion on the most
00:34:35important, most nationally
00:34:38significant, socially significant issues, a referendum is
00:34:41a procedure that is responsible,
00:34:45and let's not forget, this procedure is also
00:34:48very difficult, from an organizational point of view, from
00:34:51a technical point of view, this procedure is expensive, but
00:34:55when our lives are at stake,
00:34:58and the issues are critically important,
00:35:01the state, represented by its respective
00:35:04representatives, structures, conducts a referendum. As for
00:35:08public opinion questions, this is
00:35:10a much more mobile way of obtaining information, which does not
00:35:14imply.
00:36:35Yes, we interact with state statistics bodies. At the beginning of our meeting, I noted that the basis for constructing our
00:36:39sample is data from the National Statistical
00:36:42Committee. We cooperate in the sense
00:36:46that our field of activity is not
00:36:49only directly conducting population surveys,
00:36:52the results of our research we
00:36:55present in the most diverse, in the most
00:36:59diverse audiences in order to show,
00:37:02illustrate, and sometimes problematize what
00:37:05is happening to us, what is happening in society. And here, along with
00:37:09the results of surveys, we refer to the results of those
00:37:12studies that are conducted by our
00:37:15statisticians, the National Statistical Committee, regional
00:37:18divisions, and here we only need to take into
00:37:22account the fact that for the National
00:37:25Statistical Committee.
00:37:28This kind of material for work is statistical data,
00:37:32we operate with people's opinions, but when it is all
00:37:35considered together, it allows, of course, to get a more
00:37:39complete, more objective, a kind of stereoscopic
00:37:43picture, and also, regarding
00:37:47the Statistical Committee, they regularly conduct surveys
00:37:50of households and obtain very, very interesting materials
00:37:54regarding how the budget of
00:37:57free time is distributed, how money
00:38:00is distributed, coupled with the assessments
00:38:03that people give, this is a very interesting
00:38:06information resource. Which state structures
00:38:10use the results of your social survey? The president, it's
00:38:13clear, he follows it, well, the government,
00:38:16departments, again, a question of this kind, where can
00:38:20one get acquainted with the materials of your social survey, in
00:38:24which publications will
00:38:37bodies, various
00:38:40ministries, local authorities, actively
00:38:43turn to us with a request to either conduct
00:38:46research on relevant topics. The second
00:38:50point is, we provide the results of our
00:38:53research to the administration
00:38:57of the head of state, we
00:39:00provide the Council of Ministers with the results of our
00:39:03research, we work very closely on a constant systematic basis
00:39:07to solve various research
00:39:10tasks with the Ministry of Health, with the Ministry
00:39:14of Education, the Ministry of Information is our traditional
00:39:17partner, well, and this list can be continued for quite
00:39:21a long time, the point is
00:39:24that this feedback
00:39:27works, it is needed,
00:39:31it is used in
00:39:33the practical activities of a wide range of structures,
00:39:37so we work together, we interact together. As
00:39:41for where you can get acquainted, I am very
00:39:44grateful to absolutely all our publications and all
00:39:47television channels and all print
00:39:51publications that present the results of the conducted
00:39:54research and do it very beautifully, very
00:40:05television channels present the results of research, my
00:40:08colleagues from the Institute of Sociology, our clients,
00:40:12colleagues from the Belarusian Institute for Strategic
00:40:16Studies, actively participate in the presentation of such results,
00:40:19so newspapers, Belarusian central newspapers,
00:40:23for, I think, regional newspapers, I haven't looked yet, I assume also...
00:41:08about happiness, financial happiness was touched upon,
00:41:12of course, when we
00:41:15were interested the widest range of issues,
00:41:19we were interested in how satisfied people were with their financial situation,
00:41:23their work, how much they
00:41:25liked this particular
00:41:28component, yes, this is an important
00:41:32resource of happiness, and their financial
00:41:35situation, the overwhelming majority of surveyed citizens of our
00:41:38country, assess very... positively, therefore, when you
00:41:42have a family,
00:41:45children, when you have the opportunity to work
00:41:48and do what you like, when you
00:41:52have the opportunity to
00:41:54earn as much as you want, uh,
00:41:58when you are ready to put in some
00:42:01effort for this, when you don't absolutize
00:42:05the idea of material well-being,
00:42:08career growth, but... you have the opportunity
00:42:11to approach it reasonably,
00:42:14you should always set maximum goals for yourself,
00:42:17but when evaluating everything that is happening,
00:42:21you need to compare, you need to correlate,
00:42:25you need to consider a lot of what is happening
00:42:29inside and outside, not to rush on the one
00:42:32hand with some critical conclusions, but to stop
00:42:36for a bit, think, listen to what they will tell you...
00:44:10such a sinusoid,
00:44:12it does not have any pronounced,
00:44:16so to speak, problematic character, yes,
00:44:19it slightly affects our well-being the time
00:44:23of year, of course, some other situational
00:44:26circumstances, but this is what is, as I already
00:44:30said, within the limits of statistical
00:44:33error, therefore, when investigating, it is taken into account, yes,
00:44:36therefore, we, as it were, trust our people
00:44:40and understand that they, despite everything, answer various
00:44:43questions, including such serious, fundamental questions,
00:44:47they answer
00:45:15program "Actual Microphone", hosts Dmitry Voronyuk, Elena
00:45:19Shvayko, let me remind you that the guest of our program today was
00:45:22Meslivets, Nikolay Leontsevich, Director of the Institute of Sociology
00:45:25of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, all the best, see you
00:45:28again, may everything be
00:45:30well.
00:45:57December 1926, the Culture cinema
00:46:00opens on the site of the former choral synagogue, despite the frost, people
00:46:04stand in line for hours to see the silent
00:46:07forest legend, this is the premiere in one and a half...
00:47:52Minsk, and which were the main
00:47:55sports arenas of the country. And nearby,
00:47:59the size of eight football fields, the All-Belarusian
00:48:02Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition.
00:48:05Scale of 75 hectares in the quarter of Academic Street,
00:48:08Kalinin Square. For 2
00:48:12and a half months, this is the main review of the achievements of the national
00:48:16economy of the BSSR in the first five-year plans, then 350,000
00:48:20people visited.
00:48:52did not stop, when they built, they built only prisons for us,
00:48:56Lukishki, Maladzechna, well,
00:48:59and in full accordance with the Polish Nazis,
00:49:02taking the Dachau as a basis, they built Bereza
00:49:06Kartuska, this is what symbolizes Poland for us,
00:49:09there is such a saying in Stawtsiansky and Nesvizhsky districts, I heard,
00:49:13when I was a child, when they lived under the king, they drank tea
00:49:17with pie, when the Poles came, they began to eat three kinds of bread, white,
00:49:21black and none.
00:49:52in 1933. At the laying of the house
00:49:56by the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, Nikolay Fyodorovich
00:49:59Ikalo. On Troitskaya Hill, the foundation of the Opera and Ballet Theater
00:50:02was laid. The great is seen from a distance and
00:50:06today the Opera and Ballet Theater, a witness to a great era
00:50:09and it was destined to acquire a new breath in
00:50:13independent Belarus. We brought it back to life with the подачи
00:50:16of the president, because in the early 2000s, the emergency
00:50:20fire-hazardous, dilapidated
00:50:23building of the Academic Theater really required
00:50:26both reconstruction and
00:50:27restoration.
00:50:30Historians, builders, specialists of Minskroy, the Belniis Institute,
00:50:33even the Metro construction and the Mozyr
00:50:36Oil Refinery. 24 specialized organizations and
00:50:40almost 600 people worked on the revival
00:50:44of the great. Even from afar, the grandiose foundation pit
00:50:47that was dug here was visible, mountains of earth
00:50:50that were dug out in order to install new equipment and
00:50:54generally implement the ideas that were proposed
00:50:57by the designers. The approach itself is not narrowly corporate, when
00:51:01dozens of organizations are involved
00:51:05in terms of working with the building
00:51:08project, with its internal filling, with organizations
00:51:12that deal with all the internal part
00:51:14of electronics, when such a number
00:51:17of specialists is an absolute copy of what is happening in
00:51:21our culture. In our
00:51:22art.