Belarusian author received her Nobel Prize in Literature from the king of Sweden. The writer thanked the Swedish Academy for the award, giving a speech at the banquet in honor of Nobel Prize winners.
“I see it as gratitude to many generations of Soviet people” for their suffering “in the Marxist lab aiming to create a bright future.” “The big idea ruthlessly devoured its children.” Ideas do not hurt, I’m sorry for the people, added Sviatlana Alexievich.
During perestroika we dreamed of freedom, but ended up in a completely different state, said the writer. There appeared Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh authoritarianism. “Slowly, we are getting out of the rubble of the red empire,”Belsat quotes the Nobel laureate.
She cited one of the heroines of her book “Time of second-hand”, whose entire family died in exile in Siberia, and who was singing in the kitchen a soviet patriotic song.
Alexievich thanked everyone for the fact that after the Nobel Prize the world will know our country better.
She said that several generations have grown in Belarus after it gained independence. All of them had their own revolution: people came out on the square.
“Our revolution did not win, but we have the heroes of this,” she said of the Belarusian struggling for freedom.
“Freedom is not a quick holiday as we once dreamed of it. It is a path, a long path, and now we know it,” said Alexievich.
“Again came the era of barbarism, the era of force,” said the writer in her speech.
“We are witnessing a new battle between good and evil – we are the witnesses and participants, said Alexievich. “A person loses culture very fast. But I continue to write the way I was taught by my teachers – Belarusian writers Ales Adamovich and Vasil Bykau, whom I now remember with gratitude, I remember my Ukrainian grandmother who read to me “Kobzar” by Taras Shevchenko”.
“I’m searching for the words of love. Hatred will not save us, but love will, I hope,” said the Nobel laureate.
The Belarus Committee of ICOMOS announces the collection of cases on the effectiveness of the State List of Historical and Cultural Values as a tool of the safeguarding the cultural monuments.
On March 27-28, the Belarus ICOMOS and the EuroBelarus held an online expert workshop on expanding opportunities for community participation in the governance of historical and cultural heritage.
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.
"Specificity is different, but the priority is general." In Valożyn, a local strategy for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was signed.
The campaign "Agenda 50" was summed up in Ščučyn, and a local action plan for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was signed there.
The regional center has become the second city in Belarus where the local plan for the implementation of the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was signed.
Representatives of the campaign “Agenda 50” from five pilot cities discussed achievements in creating local agendas for implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
It is noteworthy that out of the five pilot cities, Stoubcy was the last to join the campaign “Agenda 50”, but the first one to complete the preparation of the local agenda.
On May 28, the city hosted a presentation of the results of the project "Equal to Equal" which was dedicated to monitoring the barrier-free environment in the city.
On March 3, members of the campaign "Agenda 50" from different Belarusian cities met in Minsk. The campaign is aimed at the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
In Stolin, social organizations and local authorities are implementing a project aimed at independent living of persons with disabilities, and creating local agenda for the district.
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.