Paul
Goble
Staunton, March 13 – In another indication
that the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka is working to defend itself against
the possible absorption of Belarus by Vladimir Putin, Lukashenka’s pocket Council
on National Security has declared that the Belarusian language is “a guarantor of
the humanitarian security of the state.”
A copy of its resolution on this
point was leaked to a telegram channel (t.me/pacaby/715) and has been confirmed by sources as
genuine although problems with page numeration and typos suggest that this is a
draft and that the final version, likely to be published next week, may be
different at least in words if not in direction (news.tut.by/economics/629573.html).
Given that the
Belarusian language is one of the key signifiers of the Belarusian nation and that
promotion of Belarusian by Minsk recently, after many years in which the
Lukashenka regime allowed Russian to gain ground, has been attacked by Moscow
as an unfriendly act, this decision makes clear that Minsk is now doing what it
can to oppose Moscow.
The Belarusian Security Council
document specifies that “the broadening of the social functions and
communication possibilities of he Belarusian language, its full and all-sided development
together with other elements of national culture are a guarantor of the humanitarian
security of the state.”
It also calls for “the further and
thoroughgoing realization of the state’s historical policy in order to strengthen
in Belarus and beyond the borders of the country the Belarusian national
conception of the historical past of the country and the Belarusian model of
development.” That too will do nothing
to make Moscow happy.
And finally, the document stresses
that in order to ensure the stability of Belarusian society, it is necessary to
block “destructive information influence” so as to ensure “the traditional fundamental
values of the people which are one of the basic elements of ‘securing its and one
of the conditions of the development of the state.”
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