This is stated in the answers from the Ministry of Education. It is forced to respond to the complaint due to the incident that occurred in February this year in the secondary school # 19, Vorša.
Since February 14, it took almost half a year until Internet users noticed online schools in the country photo essay. He was devoted to the event, during which the representatives of the “Orthodox Cossack military-patriotic clubs in the name of Archangel Michael” hitched students homemade “medal” in the colors of the Russian flag. And as the entourage appeared another flag – blue and purple-green tricolor with the Belarusian ornament on the edge. This flag is not by chance that resembles the symbol “Kuban People's Republic”: Tatiana Gavrilina representative of the Cossacks, who come to Vorša school – member of the “Association of Kuban Cossacks "Russia"”.
According to the explanations of the Ministry of Education, Vorša children presented “the future of the club flag”. But the director of school number 19 Lyudmila Shapovalova even had no idea what the flag, taking guests in child care – at least that's what she said, the question of the newspaper "Naša Niva".
By the way, the club, which met Vorša Students not in the list of registered NGOs. Just three weeks before that meeting with schoolchildren he “was registered with the Orthodox parish church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana, Viciebsk Diocese of the Belarusian Orthodox Church”, -written in the response from the Ministry of Education.
According to the official website of the Diocese of the church in Vitebsk no parish to another registered legal address. Not a single word is not mentioned on the site and “Orthodox Cossack military-patriotic clubs in the name of Archangel Michael”.
But we know that the community with the same name exists at the parish church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Drutsk that Talačyn area. Tatyana Gavrilina who bring medals from the Russian tricolor in Vorša school there, “Ataman detachment” and “Centurion”. This is the same club that organizes paramilitary duties, where teens from St. George's ribbons on their clothes study and learn to shoot guns.
Not noticing discrepancies, the Ministry of Education explained that the meeting was organized in Vorša during the pilgrimage trek members – children and their parents. And he claims that commemorative medals with the Russian tricolor distributed only visitors from Viciebsk instead Vorša students. The latter were expected to attend the meeting because “the State Educational Institution Secondary school number 19 of Vorša” participates in the implementation of the national innovation project “Spiritual and moral education of students in the Orthodox traditions of the Belarusian people”.
What relation to such education are Russian tricolor and “Kuban Cossacks Association "Russia"”, The Ministry of Education does not explain. And nothing about whether there were any implications for the management of the institution that approves the education of children is not in the Belarusian tradition, and with a military bias.
The only obvious consequence was perhaps the fact that the controversial photo spread about the meeting with the Cossacks had disappeared from the school website.
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