The Delegation of Jewish priests could reach the evening of August 22 to the Belarusian city Lozna. In the regional center came about 500 rabbis from 30 European countries. Previously, border management Russian Federal Security Service officers in the Smolensk region do not miss Delegation to Belarus.

The situation was resolved in the affirmative: after checking the documents at the border, the delegates allowed into the country, and they went to the regional center, accompanied by traffic police. Priests take part in the European Rabbinical Congress, which takes place in Moscow on August 18-24. They visit places associated with the memory of the dead Jews. One of them – the Belarusian regional center Lozna.

The delegation includes many third-country nationals, who are not part of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Due to the fact that such citizens should cross the border in the international crossing points, they are not missed from Russia. In addition, many members of the delegation had no Belarusian visa.

However, the situation was resolved as a result. In Lozna rabbis met the Commissioner for Religions and Nationalities Leonid revelers. The Jewish priests visited the memorial "Adamenskaya hill" where they prayed the Jews who died during the Second World War. In February 1942, there occurred one of the mass executions of civilians – have been killed about 1.5 thousand people, including relatives of the world-famous artist Marc Chagall.

Belapan