who we detain, who we condemn, the president raised the issue of the fairness of criminal penalties, the activities of government agencies, public institutions, the mind is set solely on the principle of justice, this concerns criminal policy. do the penalties, the severity of the crimes and the danger posed by people, correspond to the will and destinies that fall into the hands of law enforcement officers for society?

one signal to society that the president deserved everyone and the ministers promised me, especially the minister of internal affairs, that there would be there is complete order in the country, it so happens, there are only nine offenses and not a single serious one, when this happened, that is, people hear, people understand, we just need to wake up and engage in practical prevention accordingly, let ’s say.

so as not to make mistakes, today the number one question for the minister of internal affairs of our country, ivan kubrakov. ivan vladimirovich, hello, we are recording this interview immediately after the meeting with the head of state. the perfection of legislation is important both for the state and for society, taking into account assigned tasks in the palace. what's the first thing you notice? the head of state said verbatim that the operational situation today is normal. including the criminal code, in order, perhaps, to soften the punishment somewhere under those articles that do not quite work today, the head of state also set the task so that this would not just be done in a general manner, but it is mandatory to approach individually each article, for each situation, was analyzed, and the internal affairs bodies were given a special task analyze, since it is the employees of the internal affairs agency who detain offenders. we are working and with regard

to drugs to identify, also corruption crimes, and other criminal offenses, now i ’m talking about serious bodily homicide, that is , crimes that are committed against an individual, well, let’s first talk about security, which is what it does emphasis of the head of state, the level of external threats for belarus directly depends on internal threats, and it is no secret that this is part of one chains, and the president often talks about this... at a meeting with the security bloc, in general terms you know the situation, but , as i always say, this is not the time to relax, the other day, literally in grodno, a foreign terrorist sent to us was neutralized , the special services worked brilliantly, a whole arsenal of explosive weapons was seized, intended for high-profile terrorist attacks against citizens, government officials, how can we trace this here?

either we will deliver them here late, or they will come on their own, this, i say with confidence, everyone will have to answer for every word, early

because most of the people who also insulted and so on, then including through our pardon commission, many have already come here, and they will also come. the most important thing that i would like to draw attention to is that our citizens who live do not succumb to provocations, the parents explained to the children, because they have not seen exactly the youth who have already been born in the modern republic of belarus, they do not know what it is, a lot has been said about this, but probably not to go through certain circumstances, it is difficult to understand that this could happen, and indeed our youth today, how is it so, there is nothing in stores, but there were times when...

the ministry of internal affairs probably already began to prepare for this, it was stated that they will take place on a large scale, as will your work these days. as for the electoral campaign, i want to say that we began preparations a very long time ago, starting in 2020, when the situation was really very tense, we worked on mistakes, we we analyzed the situation; already for the 2022 referendum, security at polling stations was ensured in a completely different way. that’s why the tactics and strategy have already been developed, we are preparing our personnel, because the personnel must be ready to act in any situation, including the most difficult, our president always says: if you want peace, prepare for war, we do exactly that well, yes, today security

is ensured, and the operational situation is under control, but still the personnel must be ready to rise at the signal collection and fulfill the task. in any situation, and we conduct such exercises , more than one exercise has already been conducted during the year, so we are preparing personnel, as for ensuring the protection of public order at polling stations, we are also ready for this, every polling station will be inspected, alarm buttons; already today, in all regions in the adjacent territory where there were previously polling stations, a video system has been installed. i will give observations using the example of the city of minsk. they have already allocated a special room where at least 50 people will work; each polling station in the surrounding area will be monitored. in case of the slightest danger , a special rapid response team will be assigned to assist

the employees who will ensure the protection of public order inside the premises. therefore, we have the situation under control, and i am sure that it is so.

today we will be able to protect and provide for those people who will work during the election campaign, these are the chairmen district commissions, chairmen. commissions, i am addressing precisely this category of people who will be involved, that the safety of them, their families, will be ensured, we have also thought through all possible options, because in 2020 the emphasis was on intimidating officials, not they abhorred children, families, and so on; today we are working with regard to internet intelligence. i would also like to say that we monitor every publication today and provide

a mandatory legal assessment if someone abroad thinks that we don’t know their plans, we know everything perfectly well, we have full control, today, as for professionalism, including our employees who are engaged specifically in internet intelligence, in terms of technical training, the specialists are as follows: they are ready to counteract exactly the evil that is happening on the internet, but once again i want to say that not a single publication that insults our citizens, insults officials, threatens someone will not be left without attention, and we must we will give a legal assessment in order. ivan vladimirovich, in the internal troops, for example, 2024 has been declared the year of professional growth, is this about the creation of new special forces? 2024 has been declared the year of quality in the republic of belarus by our

president, and naturally the year of quality in the internal affairs bodies. today , professional training is the main component of the readiness of internal affairs bodies to combat crime. as for the internal troops, 2023 was the year of the creation of special units, development special units. and it happened in 2023. nine special forces have been created, they were created for a reason, they are elite troops, elite units, we analyzed the operational component both on the territory of the republic of belarus and what is happening outside its borders, and those units that have been created today are simply necessary, they can act on the border, carry out any assigned tasks, and i repeat once again, such units are needed today, now the most important task is pro...

of course, with regard to professional training, and as regards instructors, we involved not only our specialists who we have in the internal troops, in the internal affairs bodies, the almaz special unit, but you also know very well that we involved pmc instructors in agder. who have combat experience, we are already training our fighters on the practical side, i want to say right away that the level of training has increased, one might say, significantly, especially when performing special tasks. i'm not talking about now protecting public order, because here we have gained some experience, including the experience of 2020, but i am now talking about those combat missions that are carried out by internal troops. do they work autonomously or are they part of a maneuver group together with the armed forces, for example, with the border troops? no, they work independently

, internal troops, as well as all units, i have set a task, because the most important thing is practice, you cannot gain certain experience without having practical experience, therefore the task has been set, all the young units that have been created in the internal troops, they are necessarily used by the internal affairs bodies for force support, force support... this is precisely when detaining especially dangerous criminals, armed criminals, that is, where the equipment and weapons of simple units , operatives, does not allow - to detain this or that armed criminal where special training is needed, now we are using and, so to speak, testing this unit precisely on practical component. ivan vladimirovich, today everyone is hearing, of course, this is a cybercrime, a call center abroad, in particular. in ukraine, you told a lot, and we talked about this later, people are not just pushed into

crimes, they take money, they force them to sell apartments, how is it even possible to avoid such stories? the most important reason is the carelessness of our citizens, i can already say this with confidence, because we analyzed it, met a lot with the victims, we talked, the most important thing is that we ask the same question: did you know about this, did the officers of the authority bring information to you? internal affairs, other government agencies, everyone knew this, i’m not talking about older people who, due to their age, can make some mistakes, these are young people who... know very well, work, but still they don’t just give the last thing to the scammers, but also try to get loans from the bank, to do this they get into debt in order to give it to the scammers. yes, i understand what's going on there is a certain psychological treatment, but we are already step-by-step, there are manuals where we explained what needs to be done, how in the case

there is no need to intervene somewhere in the conversation, immediately just put down the phone and call the internal affairs bodies, nothing stands on place. what happens, that because of their pranks , organizations and enterprises are stopped , sometimes traffic has to be blocked, and so on, what damage

is caused, again, this work is being carried out in absolutely all directions, we are also taking measures in... well, you noted that calls from abroad sometimes come in about mining there, what do you think the opponents want to see with this is the reaction of the law enforcement bloc, how quickly and accurately you work, somewhere they are testing the waters to a certain extent, that is, how the authorities react internal affairs, are they responding to messages, but are trying

to disrupt some important events that are taking place in our country, are looking for people. who carry out this false mining, so the goal is the task of opponents of the authorities, well, this is it’s clear that she’s alone, they’re trying to destabilize the situation in our country, they’ve already tried many times, they didn’t succeed, and i’m sure they won’t succeed. ivan vladimirovich, they report to you the operational situation every day, listening to the reports, and their employees, what you pay attention to, as if you know, mark the emphasis, yes, work it out, do it. remark is a category of events that happen that i pay attention to, ranging from fires, especially deaths, from road traffic accidents, ending with serious and especially serious crimes, if we talk about a traffic accident where people died, i am required

to additionally set the task of reporting what the road surface was like, whether there was lighting, and... a proposal, if, for example, you report to me the analytics at a certain intersection, have there been similar accidents there before, that is , i set a lot of tasks, and if it concerns serious, especially serious crimes, i pay special attention to crimes that were committed in everyday life, the head of state today i noticed that there is a lot of work ahead, including the revision of the criminal code, perhaps other codes, maybe already... do you have any suggestions for developments? there are proposals, and indeed, today , probably, the time has come when it is necessary to carry out a certain revision of the criminal legislation and look at each article, a little later we will touch on the issues of amnesty, the president has set a task, everywhere we need to approach it individually, today in general, as regards criminal code, it

allows you to take punitive measures against those other citizens. who committed a crime, but perhaps, given the fact that a lot of time has passed and the situation has really returned to normal, we probably still need to reconsider and analyze. well, at first glance, perhaps there are some articles in the criminal code that, well, the dead don’t work, but in principle they exist, but is there something like that? the same article, human trafficking, today there is no longer a big problem in society, it used to be, but in the middle of 2000 and... it was necessary to tighten the legislation in in this regard, today, we practically, well, not practically, but there are very few such crimes, so perhaps we need to reconsider somewhere here...

those persons who stumbled, took a bribe, committed a corruption crime. on the day of the crime, the victim grabbed his wife by the clothes, threw her on the floor, smashed her head, snatched the phone out of her hands, and did not allow her to make calls to the courts. today, it is possible to influence requests for help to leave the apartment. after committing the crime, she called an ambulance herself, and before her arrival she provided assistance to her husband. first aid. so why was she imprisoned at all?

which was in 2022, all the shortcomings, all the issues that were during that amnesty were analyzed, how those citizens who were amnestied behaved, i want to say that if we talk about relapse, then out of 5 thousand citizens who would, to whom the amnesty was applied, 274 people committed a crime again, this is about 4%, that is, this is a small percentage, that is, people understand perfectly well...

peace and order is ensured only because today we work and control everything directions, as for extremism, well, you

all understand perfectly well that this is... a terrible crime, so we are categorically against applying an amnesty to this category of citizens. ivan vladimirovich, thank you for your time, thank you for answering all our questions verbatim. thank you, but i want to say that the president emphasized that where citizens, including those convicted of extremism, individually, if a person has repented, yes, amnesty can be applied, so this question is still pending. will be worked out additionally, if we really see this sincerity, that people repent , why not, on an individual basis, this is possible, well, as the head of state noted, work with everyone personally, yes, yes, exactly like that, in the twenty-third year we achieved high results on the growth of gross

agricultural production, and this is a resource. for the processing industry, for 11 months of the twenty-third year, the rate of production volumes in processing amounted to 105.3%. increased, increased volumes production of dairy and meat products, this is, of course, a resource that allows us to increase the volume of export sales; accordingly, production volumes and demand for belarusian quality goods allowed us to maintain our position as a large... dairy products and added almost 10 new markets, but there is room to grow, do you aim for the dairy industry to continue to grow? we certainly have plans, we have a geography of our export sales , an agricultural business development program until the twenty-fifth year, in which specifically

plans have been laid down to... increase production volumes, and this will allow, accordingly, to increase the volume of export sales, well, let's remember 2022, it was successful for belarusian farmers in terms of exports, and what did 2023 show, can we already sum up the results of the year? in 2023, we increased the physical volumes of export supplies, and again, with regard to exports, both finished products and raw materials, you have already noted that new markets also appeared last year. well, which of them are generally the most promising for us? speaking for our closest partners, then this is of course the market of the russian federation, and we occupy a significant share in export supplies there, in the future we plan to increase export volumes, and of course work on the economic efficiency of sales, and this is by reducing costs, first of all, as

well as product development account.

the control system stops the workshop if there are any deviations in the work of the workshop, we carry out 100% control so that these products comply with technical specifications. and the regulatory legal act complied with sample standard, we learn the history of production development: production of thalium hydride no longer exists in belarus. in 1974, the management decided, as they say,