Kochanova meets with participants of Belarusian-Russian Youth Forum
MINSK, 15 December (BelTA) – Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of Belarus National Assembly Natalya Kochanova met with participants of the 8th edition of the Belarusian-Russian Youth Forum in Minsk on 15 December, BelTA has learned.
“I am sincerely happy to welcome you to the Council of the Republic. I think you have seen the exhibition that we put up this year and got some idea of what the Council of the Republic does. First of all, I want to thank you for this wonderful initiative, which began in 2013. Since then, youth forums have gathered young people of Belarus and Russia,” Natalya Kochanova noted. “The year we had to make some adjustments. The forum has taken place in two stages: the first one - online, the second - in the face-to-face format. This is a wonderful dialogue platform, which allows us to develop new approaches, to consider the issues that are most important for young people of
Youth of Belarus, Russia join patriotic project
MINSK, 15 December (BelTA) – Participants of the 8th edition of the Belarusian-Russian Youth Forum have taken part in the new Belarusian patriotic project “Memory of the Heart”, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Belarusian BRSM Youth Union Aleksandra Goncharova told BelTA.
“The final part of the 8th Belarusian-Russian Youth Forum is underway today. The participants of the forum laid flowers at the Minsk Hero City Memorial to the sounds of the orchestra of the Minsk Military Commandant s Office. They formed the words ‘Memory of the Heart [in Russian] with lamps on the steps of the monument and observed a minute of silence to honor the memory of the fallen. The event continued with the roundtable to discuss the preservation of the historical memory and an excursion to the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War. The forum will wrap up with a meeting with members of the Council of the Republic