Gifts received by President to be exhibited in a museum

Before the Easter, Alyaksandr Lukashenka received a gift from Rudnya school students - a ship - and said, we will put it in the Museum of Modern Belarusian statehood. Euroradio has found out that the museum will be opened in the building of the Presidential Administration.

"It will tell about our state in the period of its independence for the last 20 years. There will be exhibits on culture, education, industry, agriculture, international relations," - says deputy director of the National History Museum, Nina Kalymaha.

Probably, there will be even a separate exhibition of Alyaksandr Lukashenka's gifts and awards (medals, orders etc.). Like, the passport of Belarus - a gift from the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, Victoria Azaranka's racket, with which she won the Kremlin Cup.

Euroradio recalled what other gifts the state leader had received. A dragon painted with stained glass paint, given by Nina Balotnik, a student of the Radashkovichy boarding school. Rector of the church in the village of Lyaskavichy presented a china ark with an icon of St. Nicholas. It is interesting whether the gift, sent by mail by Vice-Chairman of the BPF party Ryhor Kastusyou, will also be there - the party's program with an autograph, the "Chaser" coat-of-arms, the white-red-white flag and the Belarusian language textbook for Lukashenka's son Mikalaj.

As Euroradio found out, the opening of the museum was postponed several times and is now scheduled for late April. According to the rumors, there won’t be an easy access for visitors to the museum.

A photo from the KGB museum in Prague

This is to obtain evidence

Also, you cannot just enter the Museum of the KGB, which is located in the KGB’s building, right from the street. They only let in students of some departments, for example, the History Faculty, and the young staff so that they "know the history of the organization and develop the best that was laid by their predecessors," - former KGB head Yury Zhadobin said at the opening ceremony. To get to the museum, Euroradio was offered to write a corresponding request to the chief KGB officer.

In the Museum you can see copies of the KGB devices for wiretapping, lie detectors of the XV century, the documents on the activities of residents outside the country in the pre-war period. Part of the exhibition is devoted to the activities of the state security services in the post-war period – finding and and destroying gangs, investigation of criminal cases against citizens who collaborated with the Nazis.

The National Bank's Museum is probably the most open out of all the "secret" museums. The building is a regime object and is included in the top-ten of the most guarded buildings in Belarus. However, it is possible to ask for an excursion: there is a chance to get there with a group of students, or to file an application on behalf of a company.

"It is open for the people, but with some limitations. We accept collective applications from educational establishments and organizations", — they explain in the National Bank.

The National Bank's Museum is not an ordinary museum - it is composed of several separate exhibitions, located in different places, therefore, a route around the National Bank has been elaborated specially. However, many interesting things are stored in the funds and it is impossible to get there today.

In the main photo, BELTA: Metropolitan Filaret presents the icon of John the Baptist to Alyaksandr Lukashenka.