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A picket for the release of political prisoners was organized in front of KGB
A picket for the release of political prisoners was organized in front of KGB
Yesterday about a dozen people came to the KGB building in Minsk with the portraits of political prisoners and vanished politicians.  05.08.2015 | 09:43
Iryna Zhychar: If patients are not fighting for their life and rights, they have no chances
Iryna Zhychar: If patients are not fighting for their life and rights, they have no chances
Belarus has around two thousand patient at hemodialysis. Without transplantation of donor organs half of them will die within 5 years.  03.08.2015 | 08:22
Belarusian identity reveals itself in transliteration of names
Belarusian identity reveals itself in transliteration of names
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
Gennadz Fiadynich: If a person cannot get retirement from work it is a real slave labor
Gennadz Fiadynich: If a person cannot get retirement from work it is a real slave labor
The report of the United States Department of State doesn’t fully describe the problems of forced labor in Belarus.  30.07.2015 | 08:22
Uladzimir Dunaeu: We should reform the whole system of education – both secondary and higher
Uladzimir Dunaeu: We should reform the whole system of education – both secondary and higher
A Groundhog Day of admission campaign to Belarus’ universities continues. School graduates are twice fewer than payless spots for freshmen in universities, so everyone willing to enters higher school.  28.07.2015 | 08:15
Resumption of work of Minsk OSCE office is not under discussion now
Resumption of work of Minsk OSCE office is not under discussion now
MFA press secretary Dzmitry Mironchyk informed about it when talking with journalists.  26.07.2015 | 11:07
Invitation to join the International Solidarity Day With Civil Society in Belarus
Invitation to join the International Solidarity Day With Civil Society in Belarus
4 years ago, on the 4th of August, the International Day of Solidarity with civil society and human rights movement in Belarus was launched.  26.07.2015 | 09:55
The IV Forum of Public Ecological Organizations opens in Belarus
The IV Forum of Public Ecological Organizations opens in Belarus
The Forum is organized to strengthen public ecologic movement in Belarus, as well as to provide a place for communication for the representatives of the country’s ecologic organizations.  25.07.2015 | 10:01
A Polish citizen violated Belarusian airspace with a paraglider
A Polish citizen violated Belarusian airspace with a paraglider
An administrative case for violation of the state border with the use of motorless flying vehicle has been opened against him.  25.07.2015 | 08:10
Belarus appeared on the Interactive Map of Philanthropic Freedom for the first time
Belarus appeared on the Interactive Map of Philanthropic Freedom for the first time
The Center for Global Prosperity and the Hudson Institute published the Index of Philanthropic Freedom 2015, where Belarus is now on the map, too.  24.07.2015 | 11:48
Gerard Depardieu mowed grass in Lukashenka’s residence
Gerard Depardieu mowed grass in Lukashenka’s residence
Well-known French actor Gerard Depardieu arrived to Belarus to take part in the project “Normandy-Nieman” and learned some mowing skills from the Belarusan head of state.  23.07.2015 | 11:17
Opinion: A dream about Belarusan National University may come true
Opinion: A dream about Belarusan National University may come true
However, it will only happen if it combines informal education providers in Belarus with centres of Belarusian studies at reputable Western institutions.  22.07.2015 | 10:19
Aliaksei Kazliuk: Institute of UN Special Rapporteur is a meeting point on human rights situation
Aliaksei Kazliuk: Institute of UN Special Rapporteur is a meeting point on human rights situation
The mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus has been prolonged for another year. It doesn’t seem to change much; however, the importance of this post is undoubted, though not obvious.  20.07.2015 | 08:59
Ales Bialiatski received the Lieu Sapieha award
Ales Bialiatski received the Lieu Sapieha award
The human rights defendant was to receive the award back in 2012, but because of prison the prize was awarded to him only now.  16.07.2015 | 11:00
Sviatlana Matskevich: Belarus witnesses inertness of getting higher education
Sviatlana Matskevich: Belarus witnesses inertness of getting higher education
We have stuck in the 90s – nobody offers us basically any new educational services. University entrants are disoriented and have false idea about the higher education.  16.07.2015 | 09:01
Belarusan Association of Journalists issued a statement against prosecution of freelance journalists
Belarusan Association of Journalists issued a statement against prosecution of freelance journalists
In this statement BAJ strongly protests against the increasing administrative prosecution of freelance journalists whose materials are published in foreign mass media.  13.07.2015 | 09:55
A fairy tale about the Flying school, or a story of one passion
A fairy tale about the Flying school, or a story of one passion
Just in the middle of the summer a wonderful Flying University school starts at the sun-lit meadows, lakeshores, and desolate villages of borderlands…  13.07.2015 | 08:43
National Bank is tracing money of Belarusans
National Bank is tracing money of Belarusans
Each three months banks direct reports on money transfers to the National Bank.  11.07.2015 | 08:29
Pavel Maiseeu: Our common goal is to change attitude towards oncological patient as social outcasts
Pavel Maiseeu: Our common goal is to change attitude towards oncological patient as social outcasts
It is known that annually almost 18000 people die of cancer in Belarus, but almost no one talks about recovered patients, including the recovered themselves – the topic is almost a taboo.  10.07.2015 | 08:22
Aleh Trusau: We shouldn’t pass Culture Code – it is very detrimental!
Aleh Trusau: We shouldn’t pass Culture Code – it is very detrimental!
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
Uladzimir Matskevich: I never had a gun so I have nothing to snatch when I hear the word “culture"
Uladzimir Matskevich: I never had a gun so I have nothing to snatch when I hear the word “culture"
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
Sociologists: Lukashenka’s electoral rate started growing
Sociologists: Lukashenka’s electoral rate started growing
The majority of the respondents prefer Lukashenka to the candidate from democratic opposition at the forthcoming presidential elections.  03.07.2015 | 09:59
BHC and HRC “Viasna” launch a public campaign "Human Rights Activists for Free Elections"
BHC and HRC “Viasna” launch a public campaign "Human Rights Activists for Free Elections"
Human rights defendants adopted a statement on the occasion of the beginning of the campaign to monitor the presidential elections in Belarus.  03.07.2015 | 08:45
Raluca Popa: The measures to address gender stereotypes are universal; not “post-Soviet”
Raluca Popa: The measures to address gender stereotypes are universal; not “post-Soviet”
Project Advisor of Gender Equality Unit of Directorate General of Democracy of the Council of Europe talks about equal rights and opportunities for men and women and university of these values.  02.07.2015 | 12:12
Andrei Yeliseyeu: State can’t do without civil society on the way to the visa-free regime with EU
Andrei Yeliseyeu: State can’t do without civil society on the way to the visa-free regime with EU
Of course, only if the Belarusan authorities want to see such regime feasible at some point. On June 30 a round-table on simplification of visa regime with the EU took place in Minsk.  02.07.2015 | 08:25
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Gintautas Mažeikis: The relation of political field and arena in the framework of information war

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 our big joint work”

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.

Shhh! Belarus Wants You to Think It’s Turning Over a New Leaf

Minsk’s muddled media clampdown could jeopardize warming of relations with the West.

Mikhail Matskevich: How to create a local agenda and make it a problem solving tool

To achieve changes, you need to be interested in them and stop pinning all hopes on the state.