Belarusian identity Archives - Euromaidan Press

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Opinion

National revival is Belarus’ best defense against Putin and Lukashenka

After a century of Russification leaving just 1 in 10 Belarusians speaking their native tongue, revitalizing national identity is the only recourse against the Putin-Lukashenka axis of repression.

byFranak Viačorka

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Discover Belarus, “the country of nine million hostages,” with Belarusian writer Andrei Khadanovich

What Belarusians fear B.B.: How can you live and create in such conditions, when authorities can stop a…

byBohdan Ben

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International

Meet the 73-year-old granny who became an icon of the protests against Lukashenka

Nina Baginskaya, a 73-year-old Belarusian pensioner and civil activist, has taken part in protests since 1988 – first…

byBohdan Ben

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Russian-speaking Belarusians and Ukrainians threaten Putin’s ‘Russian world’ and Russia itself

Most commentaries on Belarus and Ukraine suggest that the relatively large Russian-speaking populations in these two countries are…

byPaul A. Goble