live news on belarus 1, in the studio olga kalairova, hello, watch this episode. a grandiose and large-scale spectacle - the festival of slavic unity under the alexandrian sky , 96 guests greeted kupala night. a new wave of the bedbug epidemic on the eve of the olympics. in

france, the marseille museum was closed due to insect infestations. and football fans are expecting a big sporting event. the capital's dynamo stadium hosts the match of legends. what kind of atmosphere reigns in the stadium ? live feed from the scene. kupala in alexandria was visited by more than 96,000 guests. the 15th anniversary and republican ethnofest became a grandiose and large-scale spectacle. the most mystical holiday of summer, which the slavs have long celebrated, this year gathered friends on that very magical night. trample the kvetka, the fire, slavic unity and, of course, the kupala wreath. it was he who became the main symbol of this festival.

a hospitable agricultural town on the banks of the dnieper brought together tens of thousands of people under its wing , not only from different parts of our country, but with us for the first time on kupala night welcoming guests from azerbaijan, uzbekistan, and mordovia. traditionally, people come to alexandria from different regions of russia. the festival is a place of attraction for creative people and true fans of the original slavic culture. we decided to surprise belarusians with these fish skin bags. my great-grandmother. a very famous herbalist in our area, she treated all people, she lived for 102 years, today we prepare candles, we get wishes, so we wrap it in grass, the candle burns very beautifully, it smells so crackling, we really like it, we come every year here, glorifies our belarusian culture, remembers our roots, a lot of things that are great, gratitude to the president for having him, that we have order, that we can enjoy such holidays, numerous... concert venues, tons

souvenirs, meetings with stars, gifts were presented to the winners of the lord of the village project, the grand prize remained in the mogilev region with the family of sergei and inna tarelka from the klichevsky district. thank you very much for the gifts, support is always needed, we are like a large family the family received government support last year for the reconstruction of their house. our president, alexander lukashenko, always supports the holiday and always finds time to share it with belarusians. and this year , the head of state met kupala, according to tradition, at home in alexandria. there is a really special atmosphere here, but we have kept it cozy. our festival has become a place of attraction for creative people and true fans of the original slavic culture from all over belarus and other countries. we had not planned such a scale for a long time, but people themselves reached out. yes, this is a call to the soul,

this is the desire for true values, where guests are sincerely welcome, where the pulse of living creative power beats, but the main thing that we did was to revive the traditions of our ancestors, as if in the slavic the president never hid his place of power here , in his small homeland, surrounded by his people, a cozy corner of belarus found a place in the hearts of the festival guests, alexander lukashenko. calls for a broader view and more active restoration of unpromising villages, to visit your small homeland more often, there are people like you with clean thoughts and kind hearts, people who believe in miracles, from year to year, coming to alexandria, i come to celebrate the night of ivan kupala, a holiday covered in ancient legends and myths, and god grant that everything you think about whatever you wished for will definitely come true. for you, on this

fertile land there is a spring of pure water and trofimov’s river. we, the alexandrians, believe in its miraculous power. during the great patriotic war.

in the amphitheater people think differently about you, and the hardest thing is that you perceive it as some kind of reproach on your part that you didn’t do something, and why? i know that you did not feel this, and god forbid that you, having received everything you wanted from someone, then fail to justify this trust, which is the hardest for a person. when a journalist from russia recently asked me what is the most difficult thing, i told him: to justify people’s trust? it seemed that after three decades it was time to somehow become ossified, to calm down, but nothing like that, and it’s all from here, from this earth,

to appreciate people, to give them happiness, to do everything so that they simply don’t think badly of you thought. about the wisdom and power of love, loyalty and respect. the kupala fairy tale of alexandria is precisely about this, about primordial slavic values. on the stretch of the dnieper, they sang until dawn, looked for the treasured papa flower, and made wishes. the holiday is over, but only just. in order to gather even more friends next year. by such agricultural towns as alexandria, well-groomed, hospitable, where hardworking people live, foreign guests will judge the whole of belarus, a country where peace and order is the merit of the first person,

secretary of state of the union state dmitry is sure mezintsev. 30 years old, after all , alexander grigoryevich lukashenko is still in the presidency, and what is he like to you, when you met him, what did he seem like to you?

his mother’s birth, then he was together with the mayor of the city anatolovich sabchak, with the leadership of leningrad and st. petersburg, that’s when i first saw that alexander grigorievich was doing everything he could, in his dynamism, in such asceticism for belarus. i think that no one doubts that for these 30 years he has been doing this every day. and for the union state. alexandrevich lukashenko heads.

especially, i’ll even tell you honestly, such emotions of excitement come to my heart that on the day of the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of belarus, the republic received the status of a full member of the shanghai cooperation organization, i will say grateful to fate that i have the right to consider myself like many, many belarusians consider themselves involved in...

with the fact that all sco countries without exception, which have the status of a full member,

supported the organization’s application, and we also see that today belarus is trying to say have their say within the brix framework. belarus is the first country of the shanghai cooperation organization, which is territorially entirely located in europe, perhaps that is why for a long time we were in observer status, and today, when our country is a full member of the sco, for us it has become... research and forecasts ruden, candidate of historical sciences , evgeny samibratov. you need to understand that in the current geopolitics the republic of belarus finds itself... in a situation where, without exaggeration, it is surrounded on three sides by enemies and , accordingly, the vector of development to the west is

is already completely closed. until the twentieth year , the republic of belarus successfully built relations both with the russian federation and with the countries of the european union; ukraine had very close relations, but now in general, taking into account the fact that the russian federation, the republic of belarus for the west is a country with which they do not want deal with... thank god, therefore we have one common vector of development, and it is in the asian region, because the sco should be considered as a regional organization aimed at building ties specifically in within asia. the sco has both a military-political instrument, but the sco also offers tools for mutual economic development, in this regard , belarus receives additional instruments for entering the market of countries that are members of the sco, and let me remind you, these are china, india, iran, pakistan .

newly appointed british prime minister keir starmer has sworn allegiance to nato. my government's primary responsibility is security and defense, to be clear, our support for nato.