br23 blog - minsk, belarus

Finally, I coaxed my dad into installing Skype, and we just talked with him and my mom for the first time via this VoIP program. They really enjoyed it, I think. Mom was giggling like a little child who just learned to play a new cool computer game. I’m pleasantly surprised too, because I was […]

Germans show amazing, wicked, shocking lack of understanding about Belarusan language situation. For example, in this article Traditionsradio on german-foreign-policy.com (which is a key, influential site that gives clues about German foreign policy plans) they write about “Deutsche Welle” plans for Belarus and here’s what they say about Belarusan language (I guess, as a […]

“In June, Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle announced its plans to launch a Russian-language information program for Belarus called the “Belarusian Chronicle.” Official Minsk has so far remained silent about plans for the daily show, which is scheduled to begin in October. But many of Belarus’s opposition and pro-democracy circles — who in theory could […]

A letter that was written and signed by Václav Havel (former Czech president), Frederik Willem de Klerk (former South African Republic president), Mary Robinson (former prime minister of Ireland), Mike Moore (fmr Prime Minister of New Zealand), André Glucksmann, Vartan Gregorian, Yohei Sasakawa, Karel Schwarzenberg, Desmond Tutu, Richard von Weizsäcker, Michael Novak, Prince El Hassan […]

Call me an ostrich, but I’ve made up my mind and I’m running away from the big crowds, from the stalkers, from the KGB, from that psycho, from all the others too, in a way. Now I want more control of my blogosphere, so you have to register in order to comment here. And I’m […]