br23 blog - minsk, belarus

The other day there appeared the second part of a TV-series about Belarusian political situation on Euronews. My virtual online friend xtremeq_g again was very kind and converted temporary Euronews video streams into permanent files that you can download to your computer:
• Europeans 2 (English, 8 minutes)
• Эўрапейцы 2 (Russian, 8 minutes)
Each file is about […]

My wife got in a traffic jam last night because of that car accident which hapenned just 100 meters from the RFE/RL building. And my colleague became an eye-witness because he left work pretty late, and the accident took place just as he was walking home. It was a Belarusan tourist bus that stopped near […]

Can anyone guess which language is that?

Lately I keep bumping into references to Belarus in weird places, in movies and books where I least expect it. Here’s a book that my wife got from her favorite accounting professor Cathleen, the very first page:
My name is Mila, and this is my journey.
There are so many places where I could begin the […]

There was a TV-programme about Belarusian political situation on Euronews the other day. My virtual online friend xtremeq_g did an awesome job at converting temporary Euronews video streams into permanent files that you can download:
• Europeans (English)
• Эўрапейцы (Russian and partially Belarusan)
Each file is about 4.7Mb and you need RealPlayer (real.com) to play it. Enjoy.

I’ve been feeling a bit depressed lately, so we decided to rent something funny today, ended up taking a DVD with six episodes of “Friends” from their first year (1994). And the very first episode that we see had a weird reference to Minsk as a kind of place where American physicists are dying to […]

The man who helped me to cure my ulcer pains received the 2005 Nobel prize for medicine. Reuters reports:
“An Australian scientist who jointly won the 2005 Nobel prize for medicine said he became a human guinea pig and drank a cocktail of bacteria to prove his theories that ulcers were not caused by stress.
Australian […]