It’s hard not to appreciate the agility of the Royal Swedish Academy, which, by presenting Alexievich with the award, exhibited a high-brow trolling… but not of Lukashenka – it was primarily a dig at Putin.
Dozens of Islamist Saudi Arabian clerics have called on Arab and Muslim countries to “give all moral, material, political and military” support to what they term a jihad, or holy war, against Syria’s government and its Iranian and Russian backers.
The musicians are to start touring in Poland on November, 19. They are going to visit 13 Polish cities. Alexandrov Ensemble is an official army choir of the Russian armed forces.
A ‘rising tide of Russophobia in Belarus’ is a new boogieman for Russians. The allegation has powerful influence on public opinion and is skillfully fuelled by a number of news media.
In Hrodna a drunk man tried to destroy an agitation stand and attacked a pensioner who was collecting signatures for nominating opposition politician Anatol Lyabedzka a presidential candidate.
In the interview with belsat.eu Belarusian poet and politician Uladzimir Nyaklyayeu told belsat.eu why one would not get anywhere with the Belarusian opposition and what kind of president Belarus really needs.
