MINSK, 8 January (BelTA) – During a ceremony to present the Spiritual Revival awards, special prizes for culture and art luminaries and the Belarusian Sports Olympus awards 2025, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko spoke about the 1990s and Belarus’ search for spiritual core, BelTA has learned.
The head of state emphasized that the concept behind the Spiritual Revival award is deeply significant, rooted in both life and history. He recalled that in the early 1990s, during the first years of independence, the search for a Belarusian Orthodox relic, the Cross of Euphrosyne of Polotsk, was a prominent theme. At that time, Aleksandr Lukashenko, then a presidential candidate, remarked in an interview that the economy must come first and artifacts would follow.
The head of state emphasized that the concept behind the Spiritual Revival award is deeply significant, rooted in both life and history. He recalled that in the early 1990s, during the first years of independence, the search for a Belarusian Orthodox relic, the Cross of Euphrosyne of Polotsk, was a prominent theme. At that time, Aleksandr Lukashenko, then a presidential candidate, remarked in an interview that the economy must come first and artifacts would follow.
“Yet in a certain sense, we found this special core. And very quickly - in the heart of the people,” he stressed. “The people who revived the normal pace of national economic development in the shortest time. Those who, despite financial hardships, sustained traditions of folk and other forms of art, entirely non-commercial and, at that time, perhaps unpopular. We found it in people of goodwill - compassionate and selfless, who preserved their inner purity even in such difficult times.”
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