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Films by Belarusian creators win at international film festivals
Na żywo/Live, a short movie about journalists Katsiaryna Andreyeva and Darya Chultsova, was named the best feature film at the 2023 ZOOM-ZBLIŻENIA International Film Festival. Meanwhile, a documentary titled Away,…
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Women political prisoners of Belarus through prism of art
The Politvyazynka project tells about Belarusian women political prisoners: the initiative posts their portraits and stories of their lives before and after imprisonment so that the society does not forget…
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Poems from Prison – new project to support repressed people in Belarus
The People's Embassy of Belarus in Brazil in collaboration with the Freedom Postcards initiative launched the Poems from Prison website. It collects poems written by political prisoners in Belarus, their…
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1,000 days of unfreedom: Siarhei Tsikhanouski is on trial again
Siarhei Tsikhanouski played a key role in the run-up to the 2020 protests in Belarus and was the first to become a political prisoner specifically as a result of these…
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“Until the very last moment, I could not believe that Kyiv would be bombed…”
Thousands of Belarusians, forced to flee the Lukashenko regime's repression and find a new home in Ukraine, became refugees for the second time because of the Russia-Ukraine war.
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“A busload of Ukrainian women defended me”: Artsiom’s story of being refugee twice over
Thousands of Belarusians, forced to flee the Lukashenko regime's repression and find a new home in Ukraine, became refugees for the second time because of the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Svetlana Alexievich: “We are dealing with Russian fascism, and Belarus is under occupation”
The Nobel Prize laureate in Literature Svetlana Alexievich talked with the Ukrainian Freedom Channel about the war, her new book, and her conversations with Putin's and Lukashenko's supporters. We feature…
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“Polish border guards didn’t want to let us in”: How Belarusians become refugees twice over
Aksana Dabryyanets and her daughter Valeryia had to flee from the repression of the Belarusian regime to Ukraine in 2021. After the Russia-Ukraine war began, staying in Ukraine became dangerous,…
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39 events took place worldwide to commemorate executed poets
The Belarusian diaspora held events in 20 countries to pay tribute to Belarusian poets, novelists, translators, and critics who were executed during Stalinist repressions in 1937.
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Europe today is where they know exactly what “fascism” and “extremism” are
Two more books in Belarusian were added to the list of materials declared "extremist" by the regime. Belarusian writer Alhierd Bacharevič writes about Europe's silent reaction to the book ban…