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Pavel Seviarynets About Visiting Ministry Of Culture: Officials Are Afraid That Corruption Schemes Will Get Out

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Pavel Seviarynets About Visiting Ministry Of Culture: Officials Are Afraid That Corruption Schemes Will Get Out
PHOTO: RADIO SVABODA

The politician has reported the results of his visit to the Ministry of Culture.

In the morning of June 20, defenders of Kurapaty were invited to the Ministry of Culture to discuss the situation with the opening of the Let's Go Get Some Eats! restaurant 50 meters away from the burial place of tens of thousands victims killed during the Stalinist repressions. But the defenders felt "bureaucratic ice" in the Ministry of Culture, Pavel Seviarynets, one of the BCD leaders, told Radio Svaboda.

"The officials are confused, they do not know what to do, – Pavel Seviarynets, one of the leaders of the protests, told reporters after the meeting. – Aliaksandr Yatsko, deputy minister, did not say anything certain, whether the Ministry of Culture is going to do anything with the situation in Kurapaty."

The other people present at the meeting, including Hanna Shaputska and Uladzimir Ramanouski, agreed with the position of the co-chairman of the Belarusian Christian Democracy.

According to Seviarynets, the ministry agreed to meet with the defenders simply to "show that they are doing something," but in fact they only referred to bureaucratic procedures and legal details. In his opinion, the officials "feel responsible for the corruption scheme used in the Ministry of Culture, and are afraid that it will all come out," as the officials "allow cutting the protective zones and building there objects not for free."

Also, the Ministry of Culture did not tell anything about the state tender on the monument in Kurapaty.

Seviarynets noted that representatives of the Ministry of Culture actually say nothing – they do not give assessments of the situation, although cultural figures from all over the world expressed their opinion about the conflict in Kurapaty. The deputy minister spoke with the Kurapaty defenders in Russian, the politician remarked.

The Kurapaty defenders suggested that the Ministry of Culture should prohibit the work of the restaurant and return the protective zones of the Kurapaty memorial to the ones that were in 2003 (they were narrowed after the construction of the Bulbash Hall within the protective zone).

But, Seviarynets says, a decision is hardly made at the Ministry of Culture – most likely, Lukashenka will personally decide, so the opponents of the restaurant "need to do their bests."

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