A recipe for peace from Lukashenka, construction without a "talking shop", exports, military affairs and a vow for Christmas. Details of President's Week

ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO during a visit to the Christmas service in the church on the territory of the St. Elisabeth Monastery Alexander Lukashenkolistened to a report on the state of affairs in the construction industry and asked how the task of simplifying the construction process for different categories of facilities is being implemented Alexander Lukashenko visited the 230th Obuz-Lesnovsky combined-arms training ground Alexander Lukashenko visited the Christmas service in the church on the territory of the St. Elisabeth Monastery Alexander Lukashenko heard report on the state of affairs in the construction industry and asked how the task of simplifying the construction process for different categories of objects is being implemented Alexander Lukashenko visited the 230th Obuz-Lesnovsky combined arms training ground Alexander Lukashenko visiting the Christmas service in the church on the territory of the St. Elisabeth Monastery 123

The work schedule of the President of Belarus is always very eventful. Alexander Lukashenko holds conferences and working meetings on the most pressing issues of the country's development, regularly visits the regions, makes foreign visits and receives foreign guests himself, communicates with journalists, signs decrees and laws... And even when there are no public events, this does not mean at all that the HEAD of state is not working. However, during the rest, whether it's hockey training or chopping wood, Alexander Lukashenko no, no, and he will find a reason for the next assignment. As he likes to say, in everything one must proceed from life.

The "President's Week" project is for those who want to keep up with the head of state, to be aware of the most relevant statements and decisions of the Belarusian leader. On whom and what will peace in Belarus depend on; why the President does not need a "talking room" in construction; whether admission to universities will become a lottery; Is money really everything? what the Russian military are doing in Belarus and why Alexander Lukashenko came to them. And also about the vow that the head of state made in the church on Christmas, promising to do everything for Belarus to live in peace and harmony.

All this and much more in the first issue of BelTA's special project "President's Week".

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE TIME. What recipe for peace Lukashenka prescribed to Belarusians on New Year's Eve

Residents of Belarus learned about the main decision for the whole coming year. 2023 has been declared the Year of Peace and Creation in the country. Alexander Lukashenko gave a clear answer to the question of what and who will determine whether Belarus will remain an island of security.

"The answer is simple: everything in our life will depend on each of us. And on all of us together. If we want to live in peace and security, then first of all we must respect and appreciate the work of people in uniform, raise children as patriots of our country and abide by the law "If we want to live in peace and prosperity, we must work hard, honestly and conscientiously. If we want to live in a free and independent state, we must cherish and protect historical memory, spiritual values ​​and primordial traditions," the Belarusian leader.

"We are announcing the next year. This is in line with the spirit of the times and the aspirations of our hearts. I, just like you, wish peace and goodness to my native Belarus. Good HEALTH and children's laughter to every family. Friendly care and warmth to everyone, who is lonely. Family harmony and well-being in every home,” said Alexander Lukashenko.

The decision to declare 2023 the Year of Peace and Creation was formalized by Decree No. 1 of January 1. The key areas in the coming year will be improving the system of military-patriotic education of the population, promoting peaceful initiatives of citizens and the public, promoting interfaith dialogue that ensures peace and harmony in the Belarusian society, demonstrating the advantages of the Belarusian economic model in the context of global turbulence, positioning creative labor as the main condition for development Belarusian state.

Such topics will strengthen the perception of Belarus as an island of peace, the undeniable value of which for the population of the country is a weighty argument in reaching agreement on other important issues of public life. The Belarusian response to militarization in the European region will be the peaceful creative work of compatriots.

REBUILD THE OFFICIALS. Why the President does not need a "talking room" and what are the main issues for the construction complex

The first public event in the new year at the head of state was a report on the state of affairs in the construction industry. Immediately after the New Year holidays, on January 3, relevant officials kept a report in Alexander Lukashenko's office.

Starting a conversation about problematic issues related to the construction industry, the head of state stressed: "Nobody just needs a talking shop here. I am interested in the first question (we agreed on this) - simplification of the construction process. Just like they did for private construction."

In relation to the construction of private housing, the requirements were significantly simplified, the President recalled, and this was positively received by many people. "A person has a plot - a system. You build for yourself, you are responsible for this, and, as you can see, people themselves went to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and to some kind of supervision, and to you so that you could suggest how best. it should be so. A person should decide how to build a house," Alexander Lukashenko said. "Those who build are 100% thinking people. They will decide how to build. They need to ask us to give them advice and help."

"The rest of the housing, construction projects - we agreed that within a year (you told me by this year) you will settle everything and no one will be offended, neither from the heads of enterprises that build new workshops, nor private individuals, nor civil servants, nor those who will build their own housing or buy an apartment in high-rise buildings - they will not be offended by us for excessive, unnecessary demands, - the President said. - That we will regulate these norms, rules and requirements. I would like to hear today: did you do it or not done".

Another topic discussed by the head of state was the results of the construction industry in 2022. “They don't make us happy in the construction industry, frankly,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

“You are again starting to create long-term construction projects in the country,” the head of state said, addressing the responsible persons. “You have unfinished construction projects. And even residential facilities. In my opinion, as many as 22 residential buildings, 19 in MINSK. This is a disgrace. We promised that we would commission the facility, residential buildings, on time, but we are not commissioning them. There are other unfinished facilities. There will be a serious demand for this."

At the moment, the situation with long-term construction in the country leaves much to be desired. "Protracted construction projects have not been put in order," the President emphasized. "If this is not the case, you tell me."

At the same time, Alexander Lukashenko warned against repeating the situation that developed some time ago, when tough decisions had to be made in order for the situation with long-term construction to move forward.

As another important topic, the President outlined the prospects for the development of the construction industry, especially taking into account plans for the priority provision of housing for military personnel, large families and other categories.

As Minister of Architecture and Construction Ruslan Parkhamovich reported, the work of the ministry in 2022 was aimed at ensuring the sustainable functioning of the country's construction complex, unconditional fulfillment of tasks in housing construction, diversification of sales markets for construction products, and continued work on improving the regulatory framework in construction. In 2022, about 4.2 million square meters of housing were put into operation, which corresponds to the target indicator of the state program. Almost half of the built housing (45%) is individual. Housing with state support in 2022 was commissioned by 100,000 sq.m more than planned - 1.3 million sq.m. Also, plans for the construction of rental housing were exceeded by 60% and for the construction of electric houses - by 35%.

DOTS ABOVE "i". Will admission to Belarusian universities become a lottery?

This week, Alexander Lukashenko signed another important document - a decree approving a new version of the rules for admission to universities. It was decree number 2, signed in the new year.

In 2022, the rules were approached more than once, including at the level of the head of state. The key requirement of the President was to prescribe such norms in order to see each applicant during admission to universities. Ensure fair treatment and create equal opportunities for education in higher education institutions for all applicants.

Recall what Alexander Lukashenko said on this issue on December 2 last year: “Permanent reforms and improvements should be stopped after today’s discussion. Except for textbooks that you will improve, reform, write new ones, modernize old ones. changes in the field of education. - Note by BelTA). And it is impossible to constantly change the rules of the game. Let's finally put an end to this protracted conversation and start painstaking work."

"Entrance campaign to universities should not be a lottery or a lucky coincidence for individual applicants," the Belarusian leader emphasized.

This was the final meeting before the rules were approved. And here is the point. The document has been finalized taking into account the results of a broad study of public opinion and expert assessments, as well as the testing of certain norms during the 2022 admission campaign.

The rules are aimed at increasing the objectivity of assessing the knowledge of applicants and ensure compliance with the principle of equal opportunity to enter universities. They also provide for the improvement of the selection of the most prepared and motivated applicants for obtaining specialties in demand by the country's economy.

The categories of applicants who have the right to enter universities without entrance examinations are determined. These are winners of international and republican Olympiads, winners of university Olympiads when entering these universities, graduates of the National Children's Technopark on the recommendation of the Supervisory Board, and a number of other categories.

Out of competition, children of military personnel, employees of internal affairs bodies who became disabled in the line of duty, students of military-patriotic clubs when entering universities of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Border Committee and military faculties will be enrolled.

Special conditions are being introduced for admission to specialties for the Armed Forces, transport troops and border service bodies.

Special attention is paid to admission to universities on the basis of targeted training. This form has already proved itself well. In the future, it is only planned to expand. For example, when training doctors, which Alexander Lukashenko spoke about on December 5 when discussing the situation in the healthcare sector: “We are moving towards recruiting doctors in general who will graduate, and we will know where they will go. Without any distribution. They will come and "They will already know where they are going, because they have an agreement. We need to train doctors who will work for their country, for their homeland."

Naturally, dotted over "i" and in the issue of combining school exams with entrance exams. Graduates of the 11th grade will take two unified centralized exams (CE). This is Belarusian or Russian (at the choice of the student). And one more subject to choose from from the list of subjects that are taken on centralized testing (CT) in order to enter universities in the future.

Thus, the applicant will have to pass only one more exam in the form of centralized testing in addition to two certificates based on the results of school exams. Only three. This approach allows the applicant to make an informed choice of a future specialty, and not to collect a list of certificates that, according to their scores, are suitable for entering. This is a serious factor that improves the quality of selection of university applicants. At the same time, the applicant is completely free to choose a specialty and university, taking into account the available certificates of the CE and CT.

MONEY DECIDES EVERYTHING? How are things in Belarusian exports?

In 2022, we managed to overcome negative trends and reach positive EXPORT results in monetary terms. But this is not a reason to relax, as it is necessary, Alexander Lukashenko said on January 5 at a meeting on the export of Belarusian goods.

especially since Belarus has an export-oriented economy. We will have to sell half of what we produce in order to live normally."

The President noted that in connection with the attempts to strangle Belarus last year, the existing logistics were violated by sanctions. I had to look for new logistical ways. "It will be necessary to discuss these issues as well. At least what you asked me to decide at the level of the President of the Russian Federation in order for the ports to be opened for us, I believe that all issues have been resolved. The question remains small - to start shipping to These ports. Although we have already started shipping something. We need to build these ports faster, bring them to a certain level and trade through our own ports."

As Minister of Transport and Communications Aleksey Avramenko said after the meeting, it is involved in the supply of Belarusian goods. Last year, two basic agreements were signed between the countries on the transshipment of oil products and foreign trade cargo. These are primarily potash and nitrogen fertilizers, metallurgy and woodworking products. The volumes for 2023 and the ports that will be involved have been determined. As is known, Belarus also intends to build its own seaport in RUSSIA using credit resources.

First Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Snopkov explained that after the transshipment of Belarusian cargo through the Baltic ports became impossible due to the unfriendly behavior of individual countries, the Russian port infrastructure came to the fore for Belarus. "Today we provide port infrastructure with all the necessary exports of Belarus (80% of these are oil products and potash fertilizers). We have enough port infrastructure to export the entire volume of the exported product," he stressed.

At the same time, the Belarusian side is satisfied with the conditions both in terms of tariffs and the cost of transshipment. At the same time, the possibility of cooperation with former partners is not rejected. If proposals are received from the Baltic countries to resume the transshipment of goods through their ports, in particular Klaipeda and Ventspils, Belarus will think about this issue, look at the proposed conditions.

In addition, Belarus is increasing rail freight to CHINA . Last year, 988 container trains were sent to this country. For example, more than a million tons of potash fertilizers were transported. Also, it is lumber, MILK powder and a number of other goods. In this regard, there is a steady, almost multiple growth.

COMMON CAUSE. What are the Russian military doing in Belarus and why Lukashenka came to them

Based on the difficult military-political situation and the growing military activity of the NATO bloc on the territory of states neighboring Belarus, the President keeps under personal control the issues of combat readiness of the Armed Forces, the course and quality of combat training. These issues are systematically reported to him, and on January 6, Alexander Lukashenko decided to personally check the quality of combat training of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Belarus. While inspecting domestic troops, the head of state could not help visiting the Russian military. At the training ground near Baranovichi, he talked with servicemen from Russia, who became part of the regional group of troops and are coordinating with Belarusian units.

"Comrade Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, formations of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation together with units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus at the training grounds of the Republic of Belarus conducted exercises, command and staff training as part of the training of the allied forces," the representative of the Russian Armed Forces reported to the head of state.

According to the officer, in particular, motorized rifle and tank units, special troops, including air defense units, conducted joint exercises. "At this stage, the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are ready to carry out the tasks for their intended purpose. I would like to thank you personally for the assistance provided in the deployment, assistance in providing measures related to the training of personnel," he added.

"We are doing a common thing," Alexander Lukashenko emphasized.

At the training ground, the head of state also got acquainted with the location of military units and subunits of the Russian Armed Forces, talked with soldiers and officers.

"If you have any questions for me, tell me," the President said.

He stressed that the experience of the Russian military is of great importance for Belarus: "It is very important for me. And not only for me. This difficult experience is very important for Belarus."

“I will listen very carefully and use this when preparing our armed forces of Belarus and Russia to defend the common Fatherland. Most importantly, the most important thing is that your military leaders and I agreed what you would say about the shortcomings, because we will have to continue working in the same regime - to train both Belarusians and Russians," the head of state said.

“We not only helped you, we helped ourselves. We get a lot of information from you, this is experience. And our officers, helping to prepare those who have not smelled gunpowder, figuratively speaking, and those who need to remember military skills, this is for they also have a school, this is a lesson," the Belarusian leader added.

The President talked to the servicemen of the Russian Federation and congratulated them on the Christmas holidays. They were presented with individual first-aid kits, which were developed exclusively at Belarusian enterprises and equipped with a Belarusian component.

In Belarus, they thoroughly studied various options: NATO, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian. It turned out that Western-style first aid kits are more practical. Therefore, doctors and the military were instructed to make a high-quality Belarusian first-aid kit. Alexander Lukashenko set the corresponding task at the same training ground in October 2022, when he got acquainted with domestic developments of the military-industrial complex. “And in a couple of months they made a first-aid kit that is better than the NATO one. In combat, this is a person’s life. It is necessary that the guys have everything they need at hand. We continue to improve,” Alexander Lukashenko said.

State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich, in an interview with journalists, recalled that the decision on the territory of Belarus was made by the presidents of Belarus and Russia last year. The grouping successfully deployed, joint combat training sessions were organized both with the military personnel of the Russian Federation and with the military personnel of the Republic of Belarus. The regional grouping of troops is one of the elements of strategic deterrence. An element that should cool the hotheads in the West with its aggressive policy towards the Union State.

AGAIN ABOUT THE WORLD. What vow did Lukashenka make to the people in the church on Christmas

The head of state traditionally came to church on Christmas Day. Alexander Lukashenko in one of the churches of St. Elisabeth Monastery in Minsk.

He congratulated the parishioners, clergy and all Belarusians on the bright holiday of the Nativity of Christ: “I want to assure you that I personally, as the commander-in-chief, the head of state, will do everything so that our Belarus lives in peace and harmony. I will do everything so that you calmly, in warmth and tranquility they spent their days in the family and remembered that great and valuable one, whose name is peace.

“God grant that we can endure this peaceful, calm mood, which was at least last year. They say that 2023 must be better. it was lived in peace, harmony, warmth - this is very important now, looking around. In this regard, this year should not be worse. We will have the conditions to live normally, work normally, whoever wants to, and live in warmth and world. We will have everything for this,” the Belarusian leader assured.

“I don’t want to specify anything here. But everything has been done to make it better. But if it is the same as last year, and the Lord is with it, we will agree with this. But it will be better, I’m sure of it. a little better. And it will also be calmer for us if we ourselves do not create tension in our society. God forbid this happens, in other states. At first, tension was created - Maidans and so on. And then a civil war, and then - a real hot "Who would have thought that we, the Slavs, would someday fight against each other. This is a terrible phenomenon. And everything starts small. Therefore, steps must be taken to destroy points of confrontation in our society," Alexander Lukashenko urged .

The head of state said that the time has come for the authorities and society to take a step towards people who made a mistake and left Belarus: “Finally, many, many people began to understand that they are not needed anywhere except their land. Even those who fled from Belarus today thousands turn to us to be returned back to their homeland. We did not expel anyone from Belarus. This is their land, just like ours. But they were looking for a better life, for various reasons they fled from here. The time has come when we, representatives of the authorities, I, as the head of state, and you, the clergy, our people must take a step towards these people, who either went crazy, or lost their bearings for some time, made a mistake. Let's take this step towards them."

“I don’t want to say that we are now, as the West demands of us ... I talk about it less, but every day the demand is to return everything and so on and so forth, even violators of the law. No. Everyone must answer for his own. But I am sure that among those who fled, and those who live with us today, there are deeply repentant people, people who realized that they made a mistake. They should not be thrown to the sidelines," the President said.

Alexander Lukashenko is sure that it is necessary to look for the right solution to emerging issues, not leaving it to the future of children. “Therefore, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that Belarus is peaceful, calm, so that we do not look askance at each other. And those who break the law will be held accountable. Alas, such is life,” he said.

The head of state noted that recently the St. Elisabeth Monastery was collecting aid for the Russian military at the front, for which he came under criticism from "paid fugitives."

The President noted the need to extend a helping hand to everyone who needs it. "You are doing the right thing. Do not pay attention to a dozen or two paid people. We not only help our Russian brothers, the Russians, I have never hidden it. And my yesterday's visit to the military, to the Russian military, without hiding, says that we "We supported and continue to support our brothers. But we do not forget about Ukrainians either. About 10,000 who fled the war found a permanent place of residence and shelter in our country last year alone," Alexander Lukashenko said.

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