The World Congress of Belarusians will start in a few hours. We will tell you more about this forum and the results of "A Country to Live in" foundation's approach to it in our material.
On the night of October 29-30, 1937, more than 100 prominent Belarusian figures of culture, art, and science were shot in the basements of the NKVD prison (the so-called "American").
Yuri from Logoisk was shocked by the official results of the 2020 elections. He expressed his civic position and then was among those who came under the repressive machine's blow. Yuri went through torture, bullying, intimidation, and now, being safe, he is ready to tell his story.
As part of the "Self-Government" project, we continue to talk about petitions. In the previous article, we gave a definition of what it is. Now we will explain what exactly your petition-appeal should contain.
We continue to talk about the work of the "Self-government" project, within which we produce educational videos, conduct online trainings, and also meet with you in your cities with lectures on self-government. Together we learn to write appeals, write complaints and petitions in order to make our yards, districts, cities and our Belarus better!
Pavel Spirin became famous in the spring of 2020 when he announced his desire to run for president of the Republic of Belarus and dived with the head of the CEC Yermoshina on the air. He was not registered as a candidate and eventually became an electoral proxy of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. Pavel was arrested in September 2020 and recently sentenced to 4.5 years in prison.
Your relative, friend, or just a familiar person fell into the millstones of the Belarusian repressive machine. How to get him recognized as a political prisoner? We present to your attention a detailed guide.