{"id":1022974,"date":"2026-02-20T09:59:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1022974"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:06:42","slug":"archival-records-and-military-power-an-unexpected-conversation-in-a-place-where-silence-preserves-the-memory-of-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1022974","title":{"rendered":"Archival Records and Military Power: An Unexpected Conversation in a Place Where Silence Preserves the Memory of Centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 18, 2026, <strong>the State Archives of Minsk region<\/strong> held a joint information day on the topic of <strong>\u00abThe Defensive Power of the Belarusian Army and Patriotism in Modern Times\u00bb<\/strong>. <strong>Valentina Dovgaleva, Chairperson of the Minsk Partisan District Organization of the \u00abBelaya Rus\u00bb Public Organization<\/strong>, addressed the staff.<\/p>\n<p>It was unusual and symbolic. They discussed not distant centuries, but the most pressing issues: the country&#8217;s defense capability and true patriotism.<\/p>\n<p>Archive staff listened and asked questions. Once again, they were convinced that dialogue about important issues is possible anywhere, even where time stands still between pages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured:<\/strong> Valentina Dovgaleva, Chairperson of the Minsk Partisan District Organization of the \u00abBelaya Rus\u00bb Public Organization, addressing the staff of the State Archives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\"  width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1-105.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1080015\" class=\"wp-image-1080015 alignnone size-full\" width=\"80%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2-71.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1080016\" class=\"wp-image-1080016 alignnone size-medium\" width=\"80%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 18, 2026, the State Archives of Minsk region held a joint information day on the topic of \u00abThe Defensive Power of the Belarusian Army and Patriotism in Modern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022976,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022974\/revisions\/1022976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}