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BSU Lyceum Staff Summoned En Masse For Questioning

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BSU Lyceum Staff Summoned En Masse For Questioning

The employees report political purges.

One of the best secondary educational institutions, the BSU Lyceum, may soon face mass dismissals. This was reported to Belsat by several sources.

According to one of the sources, the new KGB officer in charge of the Lyceum "plans to fire 30 people, intimidates everyone".

Changes in the institution are expected from 30 May, but no one knows what kind, says another source.

"Unless there is a political purge - they will remove the most undesirable, because it is just in the summer that most of the contracts are coming to an end. It's not for nothing that a KGB officer was assigned to the office, calling everyone in for questioning," the interlocutor believes.

According to him, the KGB officer has collected a large dossier on Lyceum employees - "extremist" chats, speeches, participation in rallies, etc. There are even rumors that the place "has been bugged, and the KGB officer then asks questions during interrogations, quoting people verbatim.

Without Freedom, but with an Anthem

The everyday life of the lyceum has also changed, becoming more ideological. For example, sources say, there was no reunion evening - "only a sad concert and sandwiches".

"This year we had to have an assembly ceremony in the courtyard with a KGB officer as the speaker, before every event they now play not the Lyceum anthem but the national anthem," the sources said.

"Just a Shell"

Ihar Varaksa, who headed the BSU Lyceum in 2019-2021, also confirmed to Belsat that the secondary education institution has "introduced the posts of deputy for 'security regime and human resources', who represents the KGB, so far they summon for interviews those who have signed up for the wrong candidates".

According to him, if the dismissals take place, "the level of education will not improve". The very practice of firing disloyal candidates after the end of their contract "has long been practiced at BSU," said Ihar Varaksa.

"It pains me to write about it, but only a shell is left of the Lyceum, where I studied and worked," said the former director.

The BSU Lyceum was founded in 1989. It provides specialized education in the 10th and 11th grades and prepares students for entering higher education institutions. Its pupils regularly become prize-winners of national and international Olympiads in various subjects. In 2004 the lyceum was awarded the governmental quality prize.

In 2020 the youngest son of Aliaksandr Lukashenka entered the lyceum of Belarusian State University to study biology. His granddaughter studied there earlier. But after more than a thousand graduates of the institution supported free elections, the documents of the representatives of the ruling family were taken away from it. And the lyceum itself faced repression.

In 2021, the BSU Lyceum was deprived of "privileges" in admitting students. Dismissals of disloyal teachers were also carried out. As the media wrote in December 2022, at least 12 employees left the institution on their own will or were fired in a year and a half alone.

In the fall of 2022, the BSU Lyceum, together with the KGB, held a contest, in which participants were asked to draw a comic strip about Feliks Dzerzhinsky and create a positive image of a KGB officer. It should be noted that Andrei Ivanets, who headed the Ministry of Education of Belarus in 2022, is also a graduate of the institution.

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