Belarus-Russia Union State MPs to hold video conference ahead of Victory Day

The video conference will focus on the history of the Great Patriotic War and the social, cultural, and spiritual meaning of the Great Victory. “The agenda of the conference will include the historical memory of heroic deeds of Soviet solders during the Great Patriotic War as an inalienable part of the future of the Belarusian and Russian peoples; the attitude of the modern youth to events and outcomes of the Great Patriotic War; the importance of involving young people in preserving the true historic memory and passing it to future generations; protecting the memory of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War and foiling attempts to rewrite it; the international historical and patriotic project ‘Digital Star' to digitize information about memorials and war graves of the Great Patriotic War; problems of preserving unbiased information and the memory of events of the Great Patriotic War,” the press service said.

Taking part in the video conference in Minsk will be Chairman of the Standing Commission for Education, Culture and Science of the House of Representatives Igor Marzalyuk, Chairwoman of the Standing Commission on Health, Physical Education, Family and Youth Policy Lyudmila Makarina-Kibak, member of the same commission Pavel Mikhalyuk, Chairman of the Youth Chamber at the Parliamentary Assembly Pavel Lukyanov and Deputy Chairman of the Youth Chamber Yegor Makarevich. The conference will also feature Russian MPs and youth activists from Moscow, Krasnodar, and Pskov. The event is also expected to involve members of the Youth Chamber at the Parliamentary assembly from other cities: Belarus' Vitebsk, Grodno, Mogilev, and Khoiniki and Russia's Smolensk, Kaliningrad, and Bryansk.