Students of the Faculty of History participated in the International Youth Forum «Meaning. Life. Future»

Students of the Faculty of History also returned from the spiritual and educational center «Ark» of the Holy Elizabeth Monastery in Minsk. Like the philology students, they took part in the International Youth Forum «Meaning. Life. Future». The Faculty of History was represented by Anna Moisyuk, Nikolai Sakovich, Lidia Lysenko, Elena Zinchuk, and Yelizaveta Nekrash. Anna Moisyuk, Nikolai Sakovich, Lidia Lysenko, Eva Nester, and Dmitry Yavtukhovich prepared the project «Magic Letters», aimed at creating an information network of «unexpected kindness» and improving the emotional well-being of recipients, for the V Republican Competition of Social Youth Projects «Youth of Belarus for Life, Morality and Family Values.» The project, created under the guidance of Deputy Dean for Ideological and Educational Work of the Faculty of History Viktoria Vladimirovna Sushko, was recognized with a letter of appreciation.

The goal of the forum was to unite the efforts of the state, the church, and society in preserving and strengthening traditional spiritual and moral family values among young people, focused on a strong family, the birth and upbringing of children, continuity of generations, a healthy lifestyle, and the achievement of social stability and progress. More than 200 people took part in the forum – delegations from higher education institutions of Belarus, formed from leaders of youth organizations, activists of various youth structures, representatives of the Youth Council under the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus, the youth wing of the Belarusian Women's Union, and youth associations of the Belarusian Exarchate.

Metropolitan Benjamin of Minsk and Zaslavl, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, addressed the participants of the event with a welcoming word. A welcoming address to the participants and organizers of the International Youth Forum «Meaning. Life. Future» was sent by Natalya Ivanovna Kochanova, Chairperson of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus. The assembled were also addressed by Natalia Viktorovna Pavlyuchenko, Chairperson of the Standing Commission of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on Education, Science, Culture and Social Development, Deputy Minister of Education of the Republic of Belarus Ekaterina Alexandrovna Petrutskaya, and Andrei Vladimirovich Zubenko, Chairman of the Board of the «Pokrov» Charitable Foundation for the Support of Family, Motherhood and Childhood.

Honored guests of the forum were Valery Anatolyevich Malashko, Chairman of the Standing Commission of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on Health Care, Physical Culture, Family and Youth Policy; Vladimir Sergeyevich Pavlovsky, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the «Belarusian Republican Youth Union» public association; Svetlana Vladimirovna Odintsova, member of the Standing Commission on Health Care, Physical Culture, Family and Youth Policy of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus; Yulia Nikolaevna Berdnikova, Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus; and Olga Alexandrovna Shpilevskaya, Chairperson of the «Belarusian Women's Union» public association.

Viktoria Vladimirovna Sushko,
Deputy Dean of the Faculty of History
for Ideological and Educational Work