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The Insulted.Belarus Worldwide Readings Project is a program of dramatic readings that expresses international solidarity with the people of Belarus.Insulted. Belarus is a play by Andrei Kureichik that highlights corruption and cruelty during the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko, specifically in the early days of the 2020-2021 Belarusian protests, and depicts the Belarusian people as ...
Uładzimier Arłou in 2010 Uładzimir Arłou's signature. Uładzimir Arłou, known as U. A. Arlou (Belarusian: Уладзімір Аляксеевіч Арлоў, Russian: Владимир Алексеевич Орлов, romanized: Vladimir Aljakseevich Orlov; born 25 August 1953 in Polotsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Belarusian historian, writer, politician, and poet. [1]
A United Nations panel of human rights experts called on Belarus to release the Nobel Peace Prize-winning founder of the country's most respected rights group, who has been behind bars for three ...
Belarus has been called "the last true remaining dictatorship in the heart of Europe" by the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. [189] Belarus is subject to US sanctions for "undermining democratic process and constituting an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States". [190]
Director of the nonprofit group formed to facilitate the efforts was Bill Duncan, then of Amarillo, whose new book, “A Warrior’s Walk,” describes the birth, precarious life and eventual ...
On the other hand, the left, called the ablasnikami [d] and made up of delegates from the Belarusian Socialist Assembly and Eastern Belorussia, sought temporary confederation with Russia as a more realistic alternative within the context of World War I and widespread poverty in Belarus. At the Congress' conclusion, a compromise was reached.
Human rights activists from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, ... For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in.
In western Belarus, under Polish control until World War II, Byelorussia became commonly used in the regions of Białystok and Grodno. [10] Upon the establishment of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1920, the term Byelorussia (its names in other languages such as English being based on the Russian form) was only used officially.