BELARUS: President Alexander Lukashenko yesterday ordered "ideology" teachers be chosen from every firm in Belarus to educate state workers, in a move criticised as Soviet-style indoctrination.
"To penetrate the soul and the mind of everybody is of course a most challenging art form, a very complex work and people (working in these organisations) must be qualified to the highest degree," Mr Lukashenko said at a government meeting on ideology.
"In the past we have determined conceptually what would be our ideology . . . it is not as well constructed and beautiful as we wanted, but it is concrete so we can use it as a compass for the lives of our citizens and of society as a whole."
The opposition said it was a return to Soviet-style indoctrination.
"Lukashenko is trying to subordinate the country so there will be no different opinions and never be any doubts over the policies and course chosen by the most honest and the greatest president," opposition deputy Mr Valery Prolov said tongue-in-cheek. - (Reuters)