the president held a meeting on certain issues of improving criminal legislation, one of the topics was. proposed amnesty for the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of belarus. the state gives the opportunity to early release from punishment for those who have taken the path of reform. this act of mercy is resorted to in the country on the eve of important holidays. the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of belarus from fascism is ahead. the position of the president on amnesty should be different taking into account the specificity of the important date. more it is necessary to take a close look at convicted women, children, and a number of other categories, the principle of which applies to these and other issues.

all international observers who will come to belarus for the 2024 elections, including not only missions and parliamentary structures, but also individual experts from various countries, including the european union, will be accredited in accordance with the law and will have the opportunity to observe the course of the elections. the chairman of the central election commission of belarus announced this today. igor korpenko also commented on the information about non-invitations of observers from the osce. in may it appeared on the osce website.

we will have, already today we have feedback from the cis mission, we have already received feedback from the cis interparliamentary assembly. i would like to emphasize right away that we are holding elections for ourselves, and not for foreign countries. the function of any observer, including an international observer, is to answer the main question: whether the electoral process complied with our legislation and whether everything was organized in accordance with this legislation. igor korpenko also spoke about the formed voting stations in general.

about 5,500 of them have been created, the formation of voting stations was completed the day before, no later than january 25, the corresponding precinct election commissions will be formed, and the process of nominating candidates for deputies is actively underway. in belarus, changes have been made to the management and operation of housing stock, innovations are reflected in the relevant law, and new rules are being introduced for the transfer of money for major repairs. now these funds are accumulated only on special accounts of executive committees. this is for the owners, in the event of repeated violations, local authorities will be able to remove the chairman from his position. according to the ministry, every tenth appeal from the department is related to the activities of owners' associations, half of them are complaints about the activities of their management. if you receive one call, a second call, an application, a complaint, an appeal, and so on and so on, the local executive committee.

if the chairman of the board does not eliminate, yes, and accordingly, one two, three, then the local the executive administrative body has the right to make the appropriate decision. our children never cease to give a magical holiday; a winter aqua show for children and orphans was organized by representatives of the minsk organization dsaf. members of the scuba diving section prepared a performance at the bottom of the pool. santa claus is a fairy-tale character in costume and with all the necessary diving equipment...

on the first day of the russian biathlon championship in tchaikovsky, the belarusian team wins the first medal in its collection. anna went solo winner of the silver award based on the results of the super sprint in difficult weather conditions. in qualifying, we showed the sixth fastest time, and in the medal race i was able to improve my position.

the first talk show broadcast in 2024 is on the air, today kirill kazakov and i, syrova, together with our respected experts and speakers, will talk about faith, about interfaith peace on our land, about these subtle nuances that may arise, when you want to find understanding. as always, we invite you to become participants our program, here at the bottom of the screen you see a qr code, point your smartphone screen at it and follow the link, write questions or opinions in the chat, we will try to take everything into account and answer everything. well, in the lower right corner there is a link to our telegram channel, where you can learn more about life and opinions on the merits. let's get started, hello, well, i would like

to initially say that i am proud to live in a country where we can absolutely calmly gather representatives of different religions on one platform to talk. about one main goal, about peace in our country , in belarus, because, despite this word tolerance, which is now being talked about, many western countries, especially the west, turn this tolerance into such a radical thing - symbolism of their own opinions, when the minority tries to dictate its opinion to the majority, and not always traditional religions, not always traditional beliefs and generally just traditions.

tell me, please, the orthodox faith, we understand perfectly well that there are more orthodox people in belarus, but there are. some kind of misunderstanding, for example, with other faiths, or perhaps you understand that orthodoxy puts pressure on other faiths, or this word doesn’t fit here at all, well, it puts pressure, no, of course, because we fulfill the gospel, that is, the lord is ours gave us a way of life, gave us commandments, gave us opportunity. to live in peace, in love, in joy, in harmony, and a true believer, he first of all

cares about his soul, he first of all cares about inheriting the kingdom of heaven, so you say, the future, of course, we are all looking to the future, because we understand that this material world is changeable, what is happening here, but we all strive to unite with god, and in order to be... worthy of this we must go through purification, and purification comes through humility , through love, through consent, through mutual understanding, therefore the orthodox church, first of all, preaches the gospel, preaches the teachings of christ and calls on all the people of god to measure their lives with the gospel in order to worthily, truly, beautifully, well, if we are talking about orthodoxy, as the most... so numerous, yes, but religion in our country is associated with the secular life of the state,

then last year we adopted changes to the constitution, and the special status of the orthodox church in our country will be enshrined, mm how timely is this step, in your opinion? no society can develop without spiritual guidelines. if people begin to live only in the material world, this means that there will always be division, there will never be agreement, there will be no mutual understanding, therefore any a state and society that wants to create its beautiful, clear, peaceful future, it must first of all take care of the spiritual component, therefore recognition of the church. as predominant, but considering that the majority of the population, and historically traditionally, it was our people who accepted

the orthodox faith, then, of course, this change in the constitution, it does not reflect the historical tradition and the modern state of affairs, well, in general, i already here behind the scenes she said that not only because there were big religious holidays. not only because this is the new year and winter period, we decided to invite representatives of all faiths to our site to talk on the merits, but also because we understand perfectly well that, in general, faith in the soul of the belarusian people has always been and is, well, the basis , yes, the basis, in general, of our ae that creates, as i think , the spiritual world, and we understand that we have a rather difficult period ahead, two major electoral campaigns await us at once,

literally within two years, obviously that those who do not wish us well, they will, in general, attack the foundations on which the belarusian world is based, use it, yes, because faith is such a subtle concept, it is always used in connection with this... it is clear that this interfaith peace of ours out of harmony is an enormous value that not many states in the world can boast of, in general, they cannot always find understanding and agreement within the framework of one religion, what can we say about different ones, about others, in this regard, of course, efforts are being made certain steps, sergei sergeevich, well, i’ll ask you directly, ah, about that’s what you think...

who heard anything, why suddenly there was a need to regulate, understand, but it’s difficult, they begin to speculate on this topic, they begin to say that they are going to clean up someone, remove them. and so on and so forth, look, the law on freedom of conscience is similar, let’s shed some light, well , religious organizations are 20 years old, if you don’t clean your home for 20 years or don’t repair your car for 20 years, but in what condition it will be, the law is not related to the upcoming

election campaign, this is definite, and you mentioned it. our society is resistant to challenges from outside, you mentioned our enemies, in the upcoming election campaign, you know , some beginnings have already appeared, just recently information appeared that the us commission on international religious freedom called on the president to punish,

to punish someone to belarus. religious organizations are oppressed there, well, that’s not the case either, there are more than 3,500 churches in operation, we have 25 registered denominations, directions, and churches, thousands of priests, this suggests that people - calm in your desire to go to church,

let's go back to our recent history, literally the latest... history , remember the times of covid, remember the president, yeah, the president said several times that we never close and will not close the doors to the temple, maybe someone took this literally, yes, covid, we don’t close the doors, i understand, in fact, this is the quintessence of the entire policy pursued by the state, in relation to the religious situation, in relation to religions, we do not close the doors. we give a temple to everyone a person goes to this temple, confesses , prays to the god in whom he believes, without faith nothing in life is possible, someone believes in god, someone, like in the usa, which protects religious freedoms, believes in satan, here,

here is the re-registration, putting things in order, what it is like, how this process will be organized in general, what it will be like , what? certain requirements may be put forward, because well, for 20 years they can tell you, well, for 20 years everything was generally fine, everything was re-registered passed, it will be somewhat similar, or not? and yes and no, well, look, 20 years , let’s say, 20 years ago some kind of religious organization, well, a community was formed, in 20 years a person can move to another country, in 20 years a person, excuse me, can die, something else . well, if there is no one left from this community of 10 people, does it have the right to simply hang with a dead thunderstorm? no, as for the requirements, they, they are not unique, they are ordinary, there is nothing supernatural in this situation, when the law comes into force force, the corresponding

by-laws will be issued that will streamline all this and... maybe such a remark, at the beginning i will say that after all, faith and religion are about the past, present and future, creating the past,

regretting mistakes, correcting the present , we look to the future. there was a ninetieth year, when there was a need for priests to come and help, well, to feed people who were truly baptized in... love, kindness to one's neighbor, independence from confession, and of course, glorifying the lord, faith cannot be addition to our life,

either faith is my life, or then i don’t play at religion, so complementing sergei sergeevich, speaking about the law, about the changes that have been made, we very often evaluate it from the point of view of the main confessions, but we are not talking about.. .let's say those sects that cause enormous harm, destructive sects, yes, which, well, there must be control, and today they don’t even call themselves religious organizations anymore, and this is a very important point, so this is a new stage in development, and it’s also pleasing , that at the constitutional level, in the law states that the main religions and confessions have their own weight, this speaks of our society as... but this is a guarantee, a guarantee of this enormous spirituality, today we can safely say and am ready to do so, that it is our country in all of

europe today is this, you know , foundation, a stronghold, where normal relations are still preserved not only between confessions, but we also preserve this spirituality, and the time will come when we will share...

the need to increase our flock, how does this react, for example, i have a family, yes, i am orthodox, my wife is catholic , we get along, she doesn’t drag me into orthodoxy, i, or rather, into catholicism, i convert her into orthodoxy, that is, we live normally, this is normal, from the point of view of the catholic church, you yourself answered your question, moving from town to family, look how many we have, we have a lot of mixed families, and this is normal, two christmases, only by collecting, we multiply, and this shows

our wealth and dignity, and our our society, our , our people, easter, this is the wealth of traditions that we talk about finding a flock in a small town or village where there are 300 or 400 people left, about tugging, no one talks about this now, the husband will not pull the wife. from churches to church, also vice versa, this is culture, a culture of being, a culture of being together, when we are not looking for different things , what divides us, when we create and rejoice in what enriches us, just like in a family, husband not in order to correct his wife, but so that together, as one whole, they complement each other, that’s what concerns... after all, well, there are certain

features, of course, of course , it is clear that the state, in general, one way or another regulates society, secular society, in general, it either absorbs certain attributes, yes or no, so how do you see the situation in belarus with this, that is, how organically do you fit into modern life, right? countries and maybe there are some difficulties and difficulties, maybe something is missing? well , briefly speaking about how muslims fit into the society of belarus, into history belarus, into the culture of belarus, of course, those of our viewers who read books, watch tv, including listen to the radio, probably know that there are muslims in belarus and the share of muslims is not that large, according to our mufti, respected

abubekir hazrat. .. shabanovich for about a thousand non-muslims, one muslim, the share is small, but at the same time one must understand that muslims in belarus are part of the belarusian society, the belarusian people, because if we talk about the national issue, then this is more than thirty nationalities, among which there are those who have lived on the territory of belarus for a very long time, for example, vyvye, and the belarusian tatars, but besides them there are also, for example, circassians, who have also lived on the territory of belarus since the 16th century. maybe few people knew about this, but as a historian i can also say about this, but if we talk about the situation as a whole, of course it is multifaceted, multifaceted, it is like a reflection of the entire belarusian society, so muslims in belarus are - well, let’s say so, a reflection, indeed, of the people of belarus who today we exist, there are people of different views, there are different people, even within islam there are,

as you know, sunnis.

this is an opportunity for new ones, including local communities, to arise somewhere, to appear, because well, it’s no secret that there is such a certain bones, and individual, maybe officials, maybe just people of the old school, as they say, who we’re not used to it, yes, here we have christians here , here some muslims have appeared, somewhere it would be better and more correct to state this in a good, again, form, not in some radical or extremist version, but, for example

, islam is the use of well, national belarusian simu, the fact is that islam does not deny folk culture, national culture, healthy culture, in any case, if you have been, maybe to china, there are mosques in the shape of chinese pagodas , for example, are made in africa, they are in the form...

by someone this is the result of centuries-old social interaction of a large number of nationalities, which currently forms a single belarusian people, and this tradition, it was essentially laid

back in the pre-christian period, when diverse paganism or east slavic polytheism existed, when belief in various gods existed in different territories of the belarusian lands. christianity comes. christianity coexisted with paganism, not without problems, but ultimately there was a synthesis of byzantine orthodoxy and eastern christian polytheism, as a result of which a special phenomenon of east slavic, belarusian, in this case orthodoxy, appeared, new ones. tests, but this required the development of new mechanisms interaction, since the end of the 14th century, when the position of the roman catholic church strengthened on the territory of belarus. this is a very significant period, by the way, the end of the 14th

century, when the great non-zelite communities and muslims and jews received legitimate existence. since the 14th century , the realities of centuries have essentially taken shape. polytheism and belarusian society, and the last major addition to polytheism is the 16th century, this is the reformation movement, when several reformation movements appeared, later they became protestant churches, in at present, here is the panorama of the religious field of belarus, it is very complex, but it dominates the religious field of belarus.

politics, they can be together from the side of society, but there is no need for them to be together from the side of the fact that there are different vector directions in politics and religion, but the question is very correct, what is the state doing and what are we doing, and it has already been said here, that

the jewish community has been around since at least the 14th century, although you can open any book and internet resource, there will be 11th and even 10th centuries on the territory of belarus and... here we are we are talking about six or seven centuries of experience and, most importantly , experience of interfaith communication, from the position of the state i can say that... sergei sergeevich said correctly, in relation to who criticizes, i also sometimes face criticism and they say to me: what are you talking about what you say about this, i will say that at the meetings of the commissioner for religious affairs and nationalities there are three chairmen of three religious associations of jews, for a second, there are from 20 to 40 thousand jews, i don’t think that there is any other a country where two orthodox associations will be invited at once. one reformist in terms of timing, they will

speak no less than 10% of the time, so this is the fact with which, in general, you put it on the table, and with which, in general, we have a place to be and live, and now what are we doing towards the state, i listened for a long time to questions about where is your holocaust memorial museum, and what is being done here, and what is being done there, this is the genocide of the belarusian people? yes, have they forgotten about the holocaust? there are questions like this correct, these are fresh, these are topical questions, no, they haven’t forgotten, in the textbook for the first fourth grade, i honestly don’t even know how carefully this textbook should have been thought through, because just recently, when i was in israel with my wife, our children, there are rules, there you can’t even enter a museum up to a certain age, but for the first and second grades you need to very carefully talk about war, about genocide, about deaths, and many things can be affected, in general, but not only

the textbook itself is thought out, but there are certain pages certain facts and even certain photographs that talk about the holocaust about the tragedy of the jewish people, in addition , holocaust remembrance day is on the 26th, i’m talking about my synagogue, most were present here, some were not present, we always invite and are always open to memory, interfaith candle of peace, on a mournful day we still talk about peace, anyway... i encountered this in 2020, i think everyone here faced this, when people came instead of prayers, arguments began about who who you voted for, who is right, who is wrong, who is wrong, and so on and so forth.

you’re here for this candidate, if you’re here for this one, if you’re there for this one here, so don’t you fight, this is a bad proposal, ravina, i can honestly say, well, everyone turned to me and said, no, we won’t sit down like that , we are one community, i say, well, if you are one community, then let us stop swearing here, stop politics, let’s start prayer, we have a prayer for the state in our prayer book, and we say it, and we say it we say it almost every day, and especially there and on shabbat we say it when we read the torah.

our parliamentarians made a balanced decision, took into account all the wishes , somewhere they taught, somewhere, honestly, they may not have taken it into account, but nevertheless, this is a balanced decision, it will allow us to streamline our lives, bring order to the house, we we have

every right to do this , to restore order in our small house in belarus, why not, of course, more... they stop believing in someone, believing in something, yes, no matter what religion, then it turns out such a story that they can be managed more easily, for example, the same coronavirus is a story that is completely inexplicable, well, that is, it came from somewhere,

it’s clear that the disease there told everyone that they need to do it this way and that way so, in

general, there is an engagement, because a believer, he will not interfere in politics like this, much less swear, and especially hang labels to insult another person, he understands that in everyone the image of god, that the main means of peace is prayer to god for

every person, for admonition , for peace, therefore, in our churches every day these prayers are offered for peace, with respect, understanding that we ourselves cannot carry out any judgment, since the lord says, we do not judge, you will not be judged, every judgment is on god is entrusted, but each person must act in such a way as to remain

righteous before god, therefore, when we begin to swear, condemn another, we take upon ourselves the prerogative of a judge, which... i say: leave pressing problems at the door, we are gathered here to to another reason, you will return to them, they will not

be solved without you, but you will return to solve them with god’s wisdom, and not on emotions, you will return to solve them with a calm heart full of love, then problems will be solved differently, issues will be resolved differently , therefore, uh, there is - on the one hand , it’s difficult for us clergy, on the other hand, it’s easier, because there is... the gospel, holy scripture, which we must follow, and oh opinion, how many people have so many opinions, so this is holy scripture, the temptation is great everyone to interpret this in their own way, that’s what, but the problem precisely because, as a rule, this is done by illiterate people who do not know either the scripture or its interpretation, one must turn to the priesthood, one must turn to people who are educated and understand what we are talking about, and get an answer, otherwise... you know, when there were these troubles , so many people called me and told me what we should do, yeah, then i listened to it all, i

already told the next one, you know, i’ve already collected 10 algorithms, which one should i follow, after all, i ’ve chosen alone, i can’t do these nine anymore please, so please leave the right for us to decide how we should act. and what should we do, because the church, she calls on god to enlighten him, according to the inspiration of the holy spirit, she acts by conciliar decisions, all together, and not individually due to her own misunderstanding, ignorance, misunderstanding, we must understand this. andrei alekovich, well, you listened to us here for a long time, yes, i’ll listen to you backstage too, yes. had a long conversation, in general, at the beginning of the program i said that in the near future, well, my opinion is that this is our

wealth, our harmony, they will try , including from a religious point of view, to undermine how indestructible our mutual understanding is in this world, because we said above that for centuries, we say 600,700 years we have been together, but attempts are even made twentieth year, download it.

since i am a representative of the institute of theology, that is, i am a believer, a christian participant in the secular education system, then i would see two points here, the first point is what ...

the wonderful picture that we painted, well, still, i would note, how can i say, the lack of education, yes, of our youth or not only the youth, but in these issues, and in this case it is needed, again, issues of religious tolerance, i’m just either in questions of knowledge of the understanding

of religion, yes, exactly that way, that is, relatively speaking.

because here, for the first time in the history of humanity, muslims lived on the territory of belarus without being either conquerors or conquered, this is a very important point that distinguishes the belarusian identity and belarusian, well, belarusian mentality, there is such a word, and by the way, when talking about tolerance, our muffe very often replace it with the good word good neighborliness, a very simple ordinary word.

in europe there is now a departure from traditions in general , no matter what christian, jewish, muslim, simply a departure from traditions and simply a rejection of the church, as any such, in your opinion, we need the protection of traditions, even to some extent protection, development of some -some plan, maybe even some radical plan, to protect what we we call our family traditions , national traditions, religious

traditions, because the way western europe is changing is, again, not... another defense is that this has already been done by involving confessions in the discussion of the constitution and not just on a superficial level, but we have respected, everyone contributed certain things on certain aspects, we also met with a representative of national security, that is, the defense itself can be built not in some kind of military resistance or

, yes, precisely by explanation of education and maintenance. we have priest yuriy na na yomkipur and i once a year on neshperah , quite naturally once a year on hannukah , our father alexander and i were invited to christmas readings, quite naturally , just recently a month ago we were in the mosque discussing ecology and it seemed like a lot they write very much now, what is going on there now, the conflict in israel, how belarus is reflected very simply , it is not me that is reflected, but the mufti. bakir came up to me and said how muslim imams had gathered and were discussing, and i answered how there was also a discussion inside jewish communities, yes, this is a conflict, yes this is a disaster, yes this is a war, well, our position in

belarus in general is how we will live here, how we will communicate with each other, how we will continue the dialogue, and the same thing , like some other aspects, that is , to retain and approve the continuation of what we have, this is protection. it seems to me that there is such a statement , i say it very often, especially on television, whoever is wise learns from everyone, but here i would continue, we need to learn from our history, how we got to this day, how we having lost maybe 70 years without religious institutions as such, how did we revive everything and move on, here, if we learn correctly, this will be our best defense together with the society that supports, but... you say, learn something, including from the outside, but there are certain features that in other parts of the world, i might as well

say here now, are acceptable in other parts of the world, but not in our country, including according to the constitution and according to those the changes we are together accepted and agreed, so here a conflict and misunderstanding may or may not arise, quite, quite the point is... that in western society there is a completely different attitude towards gameness, unlike belarus, a different attitude can be from euthanasia to some other aspects and here you need to look not only at the religious aspect, yes, but you need to look at how society reacts to this, we already had a meeting in jerusalem much earlier than the twentieth year, that was in my opinion.

western society should not forget that all this is present there, and i want to say , here’s another important thing, i don’t know if it’s for television, an interesting question was raised when we were discussing the constitution, it would seem that there’s no need to get involved in the little things, especially not to waste television time, we discussed the issue of transvestites, yeah, maybe there are 10 of them, maybe there are 11 of them, maybe 12 of them, but this question is raised that these people exist, that they are present, that there are examples there when they are together, when they they even take care of children in orphanages, but if there are 10-12 of them, one could say , listen, well, this is a trifle, let’s talk

about terrible things, drug addiction, alcoholism, where we can look at it globally, here we raise this question, as if thinking about what it is people, this is an example, we are also discussing this, we are also discussing this, i would like to give an example of the talmud, has a common position been developed? well, i understand that the word headquarters is probably not applicable here, but in the soviet plan there may be such a story, then a group, but there was a group on telegram, that’s where we are well, in any case, any, any statements

were balanced and we studied too, and i would like to say this remark, a lot, from the year 20 to the present day, he allowed a lot, and my brother, the priest, told me, he.. sociologist, he is a sociology teacher, he says: there is no need to invent the wheel, look at jesus, he was involved in politics, i will not go into a historical perspective now. a snapshot of how jerusalem and the people of israel lived during the time of jesus, what difficulties there were. jesus came and said, "love god with all your heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and our neighbor as ourselves." and the last question for you : do we need to defend tradition? of course, of course, since this is what created the belarusian people, and the fact that this is part of ourselves, this our sociocultural practice is ours.