Foreign Affairs committee  Our educational system is very much post-Soviet. We had in the Soviet Union a very well-developed education in technical subjects, like mathematics, physics, and chemistry, but we had a lack of civic education. It's more or less the same system. It's the same system as was in the

Foreign Affairs committee  Education is mainly paid by the state, but if you would like to enter the social sciences or law, you would pay for your education yourself. It would definitely be much cheaper than here and much cheaper than in the States, but still it's very unaffordable for the majority of the

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the questions. All of them are very important. It's possible to speak about Ukraine and Belarus for hours. Those countries are really very different. In Ukraine, there are oligarchs. Oligarchs from eastern Ukraine have completely different interests from

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for your question. I would like to stress that the Internet in Belarus is the same. Belarus is a very urban country; 75% of the population lives in cities. The majority of people have access to the Internet. Access to the Internet is the same as in Canada, a

Foreign Affairs committee  They are organizing civil society groups where they live, such as through newsletters, private communication. They're using the Internet, which is also a very powerful tool. They totally don't believe in TV and electronic media. We have a joke. One man comes to another one and

Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, thank you very much. It's my pleasure to speak here. I have just heard your previous discussion about Ukraine, so I would like to start with a joke about how we explained the difference between Belarus and the Ukraine before. It does not apply now, unfortunately.