MOSCOW, 4 June (BelTA) – Plans are in place to include the financing of the renovations of the Brest Fortress in the Belarus-Russia Union State budget for 2022, BelTA learned from the press service of the Union State Parliamentary Assembly.
On 4 June, the city of Suzdal in Russia's Vladimir Oblast hosted a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly Commission on Social and Youth Policy, Science, Culture, and Humanitarian Affairs. “MPs were briefed about the process of drafting the Union State budget for 2022 and about the preparations for the upcoming Union State activities,” the press service noted. “In 2022, funds from the Union State budget will be allocated for such activities as the International Festival of Arts Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk, art festivals of the youth and people with disabilities, a convention of young ecologists of Belarus and Russia, a tourist convention of students of the Union State, a patriotic cadet camp, the school olympiad “Russia and Belarus: Historical and Spiritual Unity” as well as the project to overhaul, renovate, and turn into a museum facilities of the Brest Fortress and the Kupala Night fest of the Union State that are still in the pipeline.
Members of the Parliamentary Assembly stressed the importance of implementing joint projects and organizing social events. “In view of this, appropriate ministries of the two countries shall complete the work to prepare and approve requests to finance certain projects and events from the Union State budget for 2022,” the press service stressed. “MPs also pointed out that it is necessary to step up work to devise the Union State project to set up a cadet school in Polotsk for joint training of students from Belarus and the Russian regions that border Belarus. The decision to launch the project was made at the meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly Commission on Social and Youth Policy, Science, Culture, and Humanitarian Affairs in October 2020,” the press service added.
The commission also discussed the organization of sports events of the Union State.
Taking part in the meeting were also representatives of the Union State Standing Committee, the Belarusian Education Ministry, the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Russian Ministry of Education, the Belarusian Sport and Tourism Ministry, the Russian Ministry of Sport, and the culture ministries of the two countries.
