Residents of Vitebsk condemned for drinking tea in the kitchen

On April 19, the Vitebsk court ruled in an administrative case on violation of the law on mass events of the Republic of Belarus. Eight people were found to be offenders. They "unauthorized" drinking tea in a private apartment.

The owner of the apartment, as the organizer of the mass event, was fined 20 basic units (15,000 in Russian rubles). The remaining seven received warnings because they had not previously been involved.

Vigilance was shown by the senior inspector of the department of law enforcement and prevention of the Oktyabrsky district of Vitebsk Sergey Verakso. He appeared in court as a witness. According to Veraxo, he received an anonymous signal from a citizen living in the same building that once or twice a month, a suspicious public gathers in one of the apartments, which "professes some kind of philosophy." Verakso and four of his colleagues came to the "bad apartment" where the doors were left unlocked, and all tea-drinkers were taken to the police station for protocols to be drawn up.

At the court session, Veraxo stated that a vigilant anonymous person named the phrase "Synthesis of Fa." The policeman began to search for information on the Internet and found a list of 16 names. Eight he found in the apartment drinking tea. The defendants, in turn, claimed that they had nothing to do with Fa Synthesis, but gathered a couple of times a month to drink tea and discuss, among other things, the meaning of life and space problems. On March 15, when everyone was detained, they only had time to discuss another victory for biathlete Darya Domracheva and a film about Putin. They didn't make it to space.

True, in court the defendants said that they tried to register the Metagalactic Center Vitebsk organization, but they were refused. And now, for a year, while the administrative court decision is in effect, none of those present at the tea party will be able to apply to state bodies to register a public organization.

As for the Fa Synthesis, from time to time representatives of this organization try to gain a foothold in Belarus. The organization itself appeared in Russia in the nineties, it is led by a certain Vitaly Serdyuk. Main idea: The Universe is the body of the Metagalaxy Father, and each being is a part of it. Terminology is a mixture of various esoteric teachings. The word "F" is a note. The metagalaxy, according to Serdyuk, vibrates on the note F. He and his followers call his seminars syntheses.

Back in 2010, the prosecutor's office of the Gomel region issued a warning about the inadmissibility of violating the law to a married couple from Zhlobin, who organized cycles of these "synthesis" in the region. Everyone who wanted to participate had to go through 32 synthesis in order for the matagalactic grace to descend on him. The cost of one synthesis was 800 Russian rubles at the then exchange rate. The main task is "to acquire the fire of the Father." By the way, the image of Yuri Gagarin as a bearer of divine energies is greatly revered by Serdyuk's adherents.

But the difference is that, in contrast to the history in the Gomel region, the Vitebsk administrative figures involved in the syntheses did not organize and did not acquire either money or the fire of the Father (they may have acquired the fire, but quietly). They were just drinking tea. Even this in Belarus becomes a risky occupation if the house gathers according to the “more than three” scheme.