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This website is for the Ninth International Festival of Orthodox Chant taking place in Minsk, Belarus from April 15 to 22, 2007. The festival includes a choir competition, evenings of spiritual poetry, exhibitions, a festival of video films on Orthodox themes, a roundtable discussion, and charitable concerts. Events will take place in Minsk as well as in other cities in Belarus. In recent times, with the growing interest in the study of church liturgical culture, the debates about what church singing should be have intensified. These debates concern not only professionals, such as church musicians, but also laity with a middle or higher musical education. For the modern parishioner, particularly the neophyte, it is difficult to remain indifferent to such apparently art-historical issues. The festival's