Belarusian children for holidays in May participated in the Easter of international youth military-patriotic camp in the Moscow region. This event was of recreational character and "cannot be regarded as recruitment, training, financing or use of mercenaries in armed conflict or hostilities". So the Belarusian Ministry of Interior responded to the petition to verify what the Belarusian children in the Russian military-patriotic camp.
The document, signed by the head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized crime and corruption Nicholay Karpenkov states that charges, which took place in Moscow and the Moscow region, were dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War and the 100th anniversary of the Brusilov breakthrough. The organizer of trips of Belarusian children has become a citizen of the Russian Federation, which has a residence permit in the Republic of Belarus, Viciebsk resident Tatiana Gavrilina.
Gavrilina acted as a private person, "seeking to diversify leisure and outlook" of children. According to the MOI, the proposal took advantage of five of 15 invited school children.
During the trip, the children visited the rehearsal of the Victory Day parade on Red Square in Moscow with an excursion toured the Pushkin places in Moscow, as well as singing songs around the campfire, took part in various competitions, playing laser tag.
"Events, which was attended by Belarusian children in their content and direction did not pursue the aim of attracting Belarusian citizens for their direct participation in any particular military conflicts, they were recreational in nature and based on the celebration of the universally recognized historical facts of the military past of the peoples of Russia and Belarus", – stated in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but because" the activities of the organizers of the event cannot be regarded as recruitment, training, financing or use of mercenaries in armed conflict or hostilities."
With regard to the presence of the Russian neo-Nazi gatherings Alexei Milchakov, then, according to the Interior Ministry, "said the citizen, according to the respondents, no lessons and Belarusian children have not spoken."
Reliable information about the misconduct Milchakov in Belarus or abroad there. Conclusions that he holds extremist views, are made on the basis of his study of personal pages on social networks. "This power cannot be attributed to effective dissemination of unlawful ideas and appeals in view of their limited impact on the wider society and the lack of absolute authority of their author", – informs the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Law enforcement suggest that the concerns shared by citizens in this matter, will continue to carry out appropriate preventive and investigative measures. And regularly inform the public about their results in the media.
Head petitions.by project and the initiator of the petition Vladimir Kovalkin says that, of course, a good thing that the Interior Ministry is monitoring the situation. At the same time, he said the activist, it discourages dual approach of Belarusian law enforcers. "On the one hand, a police department is tolerant to the military-patriotic camp, where Belarusian children are brought up in the framework of the ideology of the Russian world, and on the other – to the civil society activists in Belarus (eg, Edward Palchis, who faces a real criminal life) is much more rigid and close attention".
Publication that Belarusian students were sent for military training in Moscow, appeared in the edition of "Naša Niva". It was reported that the military-patriotic education of children there is a Russian neo-Nazis who fought on the Donbass. According to the newspaper, the organization of the trip were involved near-Cossack organization and the priests of the diocese of Viciebsk. The church involvement in collections in Russia denied.
"I do not know anyone who where sent. For as long as I serve here, either from Druck nor from Tałačyn no children from the church in Russia did not go. This is slander, "– father Oleg Plaksitsky said TUT.BY.
Publication in the Viciebsk diocese regarded as a war against the Orthodox Church.
Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Shunevich said that the situation with Belarusian students in military training in Russia is checked. The same is engaged and the KGB.
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