The main problem with realization of major principles of UNESCO Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions is monopoly on regulating culture that the state has.
17.09.2015 | 08:29
Experts and participants of the seminar-workshop for cultural actors “Culture as a means of social transformation: innovations and unused possibilities” sum up their work and impressions.
24.08.2015 | 08:52
For many foreigners the Latinised spellings for Belarusian places and names continue to present real difficulties or just appear unpronounceable, writes Ryhor Astapenia.
31.07.2015 | 13:36
A famous historian wrote an author’s variant of a new Belarusan law on culture. The variant of the state doesn’t satisfy him by many reasons.
08.07.2015 | 08:07
If you neglect planted cultures soil gets full of weeds, thought the Romans, who introduced the term culture. Philosopher tells what conditions are needed for a delicate Belarusan “garden” to blossom.
06.07.2015 | 08:31
Most often Belarusans recall works by Bykau and Karatkevich. However, they quote fresh thoughts: both from the books of Sieviarynec and Babkou as well as pearls found in the 16th century.
20.06.2015 | 09:09
This is presidential election year, which usually means a tightening of the screws on any hint of opposition, writes Anna Shadrina in her research of prohibited culture of Belarus.
09.06.2015 | 10:55
It is the third CD from the series “Voice of the Poet” with recordings of verses from different years, as well as poems “Snow in Khatyn” and “Ascension” voiced by the author.
04.06.2015 | 08:27
Siarhei Mihalok and his producer, Anton Azizbekyan received the documents from the hands of the Head of the State Migration Service of Ukraine, Serhiy Radutny.
27.05.2015 | 12:29
The writer believes that neither politicians nor the state will change Belarus, but only shifts in civic conscience. The road is long – a “Red” man doesn’t go away that easily.
18.02.2015 | 09:08
With countless visa-free destinations to choose from, tourists of Western Europe and North America will choose to travel elsewhere unless Belarus improves its infrastructure and international repute.
17.01.2015 | 12:19
Minsk club “DK” held a premiere of “Larachka in the time of changes” – a second film of the project “The history of Belarus in 1917-1941”.
12.01.2015 | 08:20
Information Ministry leads recurring wars and destroys publishers. After introducing special license for selling books its next step will be a license for reading them, the famous publisher is sure.
11.01.2015 | 10:02
Thanks to the lessee the interior of the neglected factory turned into one of the Minsk galleries; but all of a sudden the owner of the Soviet “industrial” ordered to free the building.
08.01.2015 | 13:31
Why do locals have almost no influence on the fate of castles in Belarus? Why is it so that many castles don’t belong to the local authorities?
21.12.2014 | 10:08
The question regarding the possibility of creation of equal conditions for pro-government and independent writers was also left without an answer.
27.10.2014 | 10:39
Oddly, but fact:an exhibition in white-red-white colors opens in central Minsk. Ministry of Culture threw out 2 pictures from it:a goal at a hockey match and Putin’s army in Ukraine opposed by Christ.
26.10.2014 | 10:14
Alexievich treats the Chernobyl disaster itself as a warning to mankind whose boundless pride and blind faith leads towards self-destruction, writes Joanna Bernatowicz.
14.10.2014 | 11:07
The rating of a Russian travel portal compilers name the Belarusian capital as the best city for November trips in 2014 with the total budget of €40.
05.10.2014 | 11:16
Like Rome, Miensk (Minsk) is built on seven hills, nowadays partially levelled and flattened, but which still give the city a unique landscape. At the top of the highest hill is Freedom Square.
21.09.2014 | 11:54
Minsk attracts more and more foreign visitors. Tourism clearly develops. The IHWC 2014 marked a big mile stone here, bringing numerous first time guests to Minsk, writes Thomas Bergmann.
14.09.2014 | 11:22
He said Belarus would likely face economic tightening not only as a result of the coronavirus pandemic but also a Russian trade oil crisis that worsened this past winter.
In his report, philosopher Gintautas Mažeikis discusses several concepts that have been a part of the European social and philosophical thought for quite a time.
It is impossible to change life in cities just in three years (the timeline of the “Agenda 50” campaign implementation). But changing the structure of relationships in local communities is possible.