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Creative groups and performers — representatives of different diasporas in our country — with success gave concerts in the southern province of Austria, Carinthia and Slovenia, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the great Victory.
From the 14th to the 19th may 2015 at the initiative of the office of the Commissioner for religions and nationalities with the assistance of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the Republic of Austria and the Russian cultural society Саrіnthіа (Villach, Austria) took place the visit of the Belarusian delegation. The members of the Advisory interethnic Council under the Commissioner — heads and creative collectives of Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Korean, Jewish, Polish, Tatar-Bashkir, Chuvash, Turkmenian, Russian and Ukrainian national-cultural public associations of the Republic.
Austria is the seventh country to be visited by the Belarusian “people’s diplomats”. Still appropriate fora compatriots national-cultural associations of our country and abroad were successfully held in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. According to project coordinator Alexander Sosnova, the purpose of such visits is to show Belarus to the world as a multinational, mnogokolesny and multicultural the state. The fact that we now are home to more than 140 representatives of different nationalities is unique. Moreover, it should be added that history and the present of Belarus did not know of the conflicts on ethnic and religious grounds.
“We have secured all the rights of national minorities: language, culture and so on. According to independent international experts, the domestic legislation in this area is not contrary to international,” said Alexander Sasnovich at official meetings in the city Council of the Austrian city of Villach.
In the composition of the Belarusian delegation — wide cross-section of the Belarusian society. There are students, pensioners, teachers, entrepreneurs, health workers, etc. the format of the conference consisted of two parts. First, leaders of national-cultural associations of our country had the opportunity to share their experiences with foreign colleagues. They told me about a constructive national policy of the Belarusian state in relation to diasporas, gave examples of cooperation of communities with the state administration bodies of the Republic. Secondly, the Belarusian national-cultural associations directly presented to compatriots abroad their creative teams (and all of them are not professional). Forces of Diaspora were presented two concert programs dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the great Victory of Soviet people over fascism. This year, viewers saw in the cities of Villach (Austria) and Ljubljana (Slovenia). Everywhere Belarusian artists took a storm of applause.
Armenian folk dance ensemble “Erebuni”.
The next forum of representatives of national-cultural associations of Belarus was held with the assistance of the office of the Commissioner for religions and nationalities of Belarus and the Russian cultural society Саrіnthіа (Austria). The representative of the office of the Commissioner Alexander Sasnovich gave the society the national costumes and the library of Belarusian books.
According to the head of the organization Ella Chrishan, these trips are very important and remembered our compatriots abroad: “Through these meetings and shows people learn more about Belarus as about a multi-ethnic country”.
According to the head of the organization Ella Chrishan, these trips are very important and remembered our compatriots abroad: “Through these meetings and shows people learn more about Belarus as about a multi-ethnic country”.
It should be remembered that Russian cultural society Саrіnthіа was founded by our compatriot in 2008. Today it employs about sixty people, and the General festivities going about three hundred members. They all are Belarusians, Russians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Chechens — natives of the former USSR.
Ella lives in Austria since 2002, has three sons and has been successfully working in the tourist industry. Husband is Austrian. To the question “Why do you work in “Carinthia”?” answers: “I’m so educated, can’t separate themselves from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Need to know their roots. Austrian culture I understand, accept, respect, but I have my own, Belarusian. This is normal and it should be. And yet for me it is very important that people could not live apart and together. This is the main purpose — to unite people despite political developments”.
According to her, the people who came to Austria at different times and for different reasons, welcomed with joy the news of the creation of our social organization. They had the opportunity to converse in their native language, to acquaint children to the cultural heritage of their ancestors. In “Carinthia” also help those people who first arrives in Austria: on all issues faced by the people in a foreign country.
“We know firsthand how difficult it is to adapt to a new place, without support, friends or parents,” says Ella.
The efforts of this young woman and the activists of the Russian society created a Sunday school for children in Plaju and Klagenfurt. Here are taught to read and write in Russian, doing performances based on folk tales. Moreover, in Plaju created a group for teaching children arts and craft, drawing, art.
In the nearest plans of the head of the organization is to contribute to Philly was twinned with one of the Belarusian cities. By the way, the initiative of Ella Chrishan always support from the Belarusian Embassy in Vienna. According to the Advisor of the Belarusian Embassy Yaroslav Chmela, Austria is home to about 400 Belarusians — those who are on consular registration. According to unofficial data, about 1.5-2 thousand.
“The arrival of our delegation demonstrates once again how much Belarus is open to the world. This is a real “people’s diplomacy”, said Yaroslav HMIL.
Natalia Short
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