Sviatlana Alexievich agreed to be the honorary chair of the Chernobyl Path organising Committee

Today at the presentation of the book “Sviatlana Alexievich at Liberty” the writer will be talking about the significance of the Chernobyl Path.

Sviatlana Alexievich, the first Belarusian Nobel Prize winner, will be the honorary chairperson of the organising committee of the Chernobyl Path (Charnobylski Shlyakh) in 2016, opposition leader Anatoly Liabedzka said on Facebook, Belsat informs.

The event is to mark 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

The organizing committee applied for permission to hold the action on April, 26. The activists asked the Minsk city authorities to allow demonstrators to gather near  the National Academy of Sciences at 18.00 march along Surhanava and Arlouskaya streets, hold a final rally and lay flowers to the memorial sign ‘To Victims Of Chernobyl’.

According to the writer, today, during the presentation of the book “Sviatlana Alexievich at Liberty” (a series of interviews and speeches by Alexievich at “Radio Liberty”), the writer will be talking about the significance of the Chernobyl Path.