Lukashenko: Turn Toward the Village. Abandoned Homesteads Are Not Just Decor

«Don’t forget to encourage our people to turn toward the village. The Russians heard me. And not only Russians — from the Baltics, from Ukraine. But Belarusians — no.

I said: good people, look how many abandoned homesteads there are. At least you can drive up to them, even to the isolated farmsteads. Every Belarusian should have such a plot.

And I reminded about the trendy "izbing" — a stay in a rural setting, in a traditional wooden house. Not just a trend for the sake of pictures. A chance to return the land to living owners.»