and musicians, artists, and organizers, and not just residents, but also guests of beautiful belarus. well, in general, we will spend these days in wonderful company, we will do everything possible so that each of you becomes part of this bright, colorful event of the festival of national cultures. so, welcome to grodno. yes, these words are heard here, in the most hospitable festival in the world. the program is very rich, we will ask our colleagues to show everything in detail from their on-site locations. in different parts of grodno, and the first guests, like has already been announced, oleg belinsky, chairman of the grodno city council of deputies, perhaps the most recognizable resident of this beautiful city, valentina petrovna baranova, participant in the great patriotic war, honorary citizen of grodno. good afternoon, just a question about the festival, of course, the program of these busy days was actively covered by the media even before the start, extensive preparations were carried out, but is grodno ready for the start of such a festival...

you look like no one else, you probably know, that’s the value of tradition and the continuity of generations, as you think, really, grodno probably unites as a native siberian, but still living in belarus, hospitable belarus, you understand today how much this is connected, and how it connects, firstly, i tell you what i want to say, after all, i was born in 1923, when the soviet union had just... been formed,

but the soviet union no longer exists, and baranova is sitting in place, and the same young beauty, a wonderful beauty, and i want to say, thank our generation , which in years war, i gave all my strength so that life on earth could continue, isn’t this a great happiness and a lot of us died, but... the baton passed the baton to me, i am this baton of the winners during the great patriotic war, the winners of our soviet war at that time the authorities, the authorities of our people, the russian people, the belarusian people, gave me the opportunity to live today and speak to our youth, and say, my dear ones, we managed to survive in stalingrad.

we remember that our guests were the chairman of the grodno council of deputies, oleg belinsky participant of the great patriotic war, honorary citizen of the city of grodno, valentina petrovna baranova, thank you, our next meeting is at 7 pm, we are already announcing the visiting studio will have new guests, and of course we are ready to give the floor to our colleagues, they work here in different parts of the wonderful city anastasia bendesu is in touch. grodno has not yet started the festival within the festival, the main one for meat, this is me , why are those who are still thinking, how to spend

the weekend, i encourage everyone to come here, because there will be both bread and spectacle, is it more popular? already today, today, shish kebab, sausages, all this is produced by the grodno mestokaminata, naturally, the most delicious, the most juicy, they will traditionally be treated at farmsteads, the kazakhs, for example, came with pilaf, the russians with sweets, bagels, a samovar, this is traditional too, the georgians ordered a huge cake, this is, among other meats, which we know well, with a map of our country, the farmsteads are slowly being decorated, the main day is tomorrow, despite the fact that friday and a working day people... and in grodno there are already a lot in the center, with what mood they are here today. national cultures are so cool, the courtyard is now opening all its venues, i think we’ll have fun, i’m waiting for my husband to visit, he said, i’ll come over the weekend, we’ll have some fun. as they say, we are from the soviet union, it was a huge, good country,

everyone lived together, communicated, traveled to each other, so it probably should be, is there a policy when you go to this or that farmstead? no, absolutely none. the city of craftsmen also works, a pedestrian soviet street, it has turned, well, more precisely, it has simply become continuous shopping arcades, especially popular, as the sellers themselves admit, they are mainly craftsmen, they use products with the symbols of the festival of national cultures, that’s what they buy, we also asked, we bought a national t-shirt, we bought toys, that is, belarusians already understand, i realize that belarusians , yes, for my wife, this is the first. and i’m kind of a native here, she came from ashmyany, here’s a belarusian girl, our national treasure, flax, again storks, these are children, this is happiness, this is the sky above your head, this is belarus, he’s 9 months, we really like it, oh, be sure

to get to the georgian farmstead and try the barbecue, this is a must, well, in one of the most photographed places on social networks all year round in grodno, you can now see the walls of kupala university on the screen.

and there, too, is multinational: kazakhstan, azerbaijan, russia, ukraine, georgia and many, many more. today we are working together, i repeat, to create, so they opened it in grodno. works for the benefit of comfortable movement of our citizens, strengthening the base that today grodno region. by the way, today the festival started with young people, they will finish it too, they will become participants in the procession itself, well, in

the end it’s a battle of djs, we continue to catch the rhythms of the festival in grodno, by this moment i have everything, studio, i return the floor to you, thank you anastasia, we also thank polina pavla, grodno is hosting a festival of national cultures, well, now we’re moving to pruzhany and today is the second day of the cultural and sports festival. as a result, even before noon, a large delegation led by the head of the national olympic committee, the minister of sports and tourism of belarus, the leadership of the region visited the city’s sports facilities, a children’s and youth sports school, water ice palaces, well, right now we are returning to the main location of the festival, the mukhovets stadium. our film crew is working there, alexander yakubovsky, connections, sasha, i welcome what is happening in the festival arena at these moments. welcome! studio day, very soon, the start of the sports and historical quest. more than 15

teams - that's about 100 participants - gathered to go to an interesting hike. and we have already talked with the event organizer, right now we are next to the organizer of the sports and historical quest, apanchuk natalya valerievna. natalya valerievna, tell me, what is the highlight of today’s event? well, actually, the highlight, the highlight of the event is evidenced by the great interest of the residents. the quest itself will consist of seven locations, at each location we have a task for the participants, a sports task, an educational task, each team of participants receives a travel guide like this a sheet according to which they will move around the city, but as you can see, they do not know the point in order to make money...

the situation thanks to her own husband, her name is still used as a symbol of devotion to the revolutionary ideas on which igor losik made money. these are not the most famous names in the opposition circle, but it is a very loud story of how a family’s life is being ruined. daria herself will tell you why she is no longer losik this evening. we will show a frank interview with the ex-wife of a convicted extremist. about it she asked herself. motivation. a simple, desire to tell the truth about himself first-hand about what was done to her, how to break

one woman, abandon one child, he said: “i don’t need to send a photo of paulina, and i, i can’t look at it, i really it’s a shame for her, because how beautiful paulina is, how can you not want to see her photograph, daria losik will talk about how she ended up in pre-trial detention because of her husband’s demands, he says: “i ’m going on a hunger strike, come on with me, we ..." place achieve more success, i tell him i say that well, my 6 days, i’m not doing it anymore.