br23 blog - minsk, belarus

Bravo, mister Onyszkiewicz!

Kudos to the Vice-president of the European Parliament Janusz Onyszkiewicz who today openly critisized the Russian-language broadcasting plans of “Deutsche Welle” to Belarus. The Vice-president of the European Parliament said, I quote:

“this [the Russian language launch] squares with Minsk’s plans to destroy the Belarusian language, relegate it to a kind of regional dialect.”

The Polish members of European Parliament also said, I quote, that “the Russian character of the [Deutsche Welle] project is misguided.”

That’s great to know that there’s someone in Brussels protecting my rights as a Belarusian speaker. My deepest thanks to you, Polish deputies.

P.S. I think I should compile a special page with all the information about this “Deutsche Welle” project for Belarus, I mean specifically, about the choice of language, and their total defiance in acknowledging the mistake, in choosing the wrong language. In fact, I am inclined to believe, it’s no mistake at all. More likely, this is just a wonderful example of German-Russian Sсhröder-Putin imperial kind of mentality, when it comes to small Eastern European nations.

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