MINSK, 10 December (BelTA) – The commission on preserving and protecting historical memory of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia has suggested that the defense ministries of Belarus and Russia should work out a Union State project to repair, restore, and beautify monuments, memorials, and military graves. The initiative was put forward during the second session of the commission in Moscow on 10 December, BelTA has learned.
One of the key items submitted for consideration focused on results of implementing the state program “Immortalizing the memory of those who fell in defense of the Fatherland” in Belarus in 2021-2025, the federal program “Immortalizing the memory of those who fell in defense of the Fatherland” in the Russian Federation in 2019-2024 and further ways of improving this work.
“After noting the efficiency of realization of these programs, which help preserve the military and historic legacy, contribute to the civic and patriotic upbringing of young people, the commission suggested that the defense ministries of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus should work out a Union State project to repair, restore, and beautify monuments, memorials, and military graves, should prepare a budget request for the Union State budget to allocate resources to finance the project in 2027, and should act as the state customers of the project,” the press service of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus noted.
A section in charge of preserving and defending historical memory of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia was also formed during the session.
The section of the Scientific Advisory Board will be led by the head of the National Center for Historical Memory under the president of the Russian Federation, member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor Yelena Malysheva. Her deputy will be Academician Secretary of the Humanitarian Sciences and Arts Department of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Aleksandr Kovalenya.
Apart from that, the commission has decided in favor of establishing a new prize of the Union State of Belarus and Russia in recognition of contributions to preserving historical memory. The commission has supported the initiative of holding patriotic events at premises of the Republican Center for Patriotic Upbringing in Brest Fortress and the defense sport camp Advance Guard in Russia’s Volgograd Oblast in 2026.
The commission on preserving and protecting historical memory of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia was established in a bid to fulfill the instructions the presidents of Belarus and Russia gave during the Union State forum “Great legacy – common future” in the Russian city of Volgograd in April 2025. The main task of the commission is to consolidate civic and political forces in Belarus and Russia as well as citizens of the two countries, primarily young people around joint projects, which are aimed at protecting the historical truth about the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, about World War Two, about heroic deeds of the Soviet nation.
The commission includes two co-chairpersons: Belarus is represented by Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus Vadim Ipatov while Russia is represented by Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Ivan Melnikov. Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia are Belarusian MPs (Valery Gaidukevich, Irina Kostevich, Andrei Krupenkin, Igor Lutsky, and Mikhail Mironchik) and Russian MPs (Yelena Afanasyeva, Olga Germanova, Andrei Krasov, Ruslan Smashnev, and Artyom Turov).
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