br23 blog - minsk, belarus

For all the NHL and hockey fans in my audience:
The biggest success of Belarus ice hockey national team came in Salt Lake City at the Olympic Games (2002) when they beat Sweden 4:3 in quater final and reached semis. The game was pretty tough, and the score was tied at 3:3 just two and a […]

On Saturday we had a party at our place and our Serbian friend brought a movie “Rane” (Wounds). To quote some reviews from IMDB, it’s a “dark, bleak, hopeless, harsh story” on how disintegration of Yugoslavia affected the people. This movie could only be Serbian. This is a “reflection on nation’s conscience in a bitter, […]

Hungarian Uprising is an anti-communist anti-USSR revolt in Hungary lasting from October 23 till November 4, 1956 that was suppressed by Soviet troops. Many thousands were killed. Today is the 49th annivesary of the Hungarian revolution and the White Dutch TV channel Phoenix prepared a rather interesting documentary about those events:
• Historische Ereignisse. 23. Oktober […]

According to Google Video, this is basically the only time Belarus was mentioned on any of the American TV channels (excluding C-Span) in the last several months:

- Where do we start? Oh, let’s try a “B” country for $400.
- What is Bhutan?
- Let’s try it for $800.
- What is Belarus?
- Let’s have “B” country for […]

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 […]

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 […]

I’ve been reading some news and bloggers’ reports from New Orleans. It sounds totally insane. Like in a horror movie. I just watched one like that, it’s called 28 days later (dvd), an awesome sci-fi horror about the virus called Rage that destoryed Great Britain, and how a handful of survivors tried to exist in […]