Starting this week, the Belarusian Internet is open also to people who do not speak our language. All what is required is to ask GoogleTranslate service to turn Belarusian into any language that you understand. This is actually a huge event. From now on, another barrier around Belarus is broken. You can read by yourself different sources and not depend on those few which have an English version of the content. You can decide for yourself what to trust.
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We are proud to deliver the news about the maxi single of Rahis – a rock band which grew alongside the GenerationBY project since its very beginning.
The maxi single consists of 4 songs, comprising the basis of the band’s future album which is schedule for release at the end of 2009. This will be the first real album of the band, though many of their songs have been circulating with bad acoustic or video quality on the Internet. More information about the band, the album and the links to hear the actual music below in this post.
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This blog was created to promote Belarus from different sides, with the intention to overcome the stereotype that there is only “the dictatorship side”. Unfortunately, sad news demand writing an article offering other than positive news.
A week ago human rights activist Yana Paliakova committed suicide after the Salihorsk court sentenced her to two years of freedom limitation with compulsory work. There is no clear version why and how did she do that, but the most accepted opinion is that she could not bare the oppression from the side of local police and KGB which included frequent arrests, physical violence and threatening. The announcement of the sentence last week seemed to be the last drop, because she kept repeating “i am not going to be a prisoner”.
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Previously we wrote about an Italian photo journalist Massimiliano Clausi, who visited Belarus last summer to take photos of Belarusian young people. Apparently, the photos have been published already and in addition to Massimiliano’s impressions in the interview he gave to Generation.by, now you can also experience his impressions through the photos he took.
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Maybe this is the best creative project of the year. Last week the link to the web-page of this project appeared in the blogs of many of my online-friends and moved to Facebook-profiles and other online platforms. Everyone has been discussing and recommending a sketch-movie by “Ilya Andreyev and the team” about Minsk – “Hush City“. The team of people who created “Hush City” found each other through blogs. Hardly there is another project of this kind that would come out of the Belarusian blog sphere. “Hush City” impresses with an original and creative way of story-telling.
This sketch film may become something like a business card for the city, as it is devoted to Minsk and its residents. The project does create a certain impression of the city and might be perceived as a little biased, but the amount of beautiful pictures with sites of Minsk cannot but impress and give a good insight into the life of the Belarusian capital. This is probably the best way to experience Minsk from the Internet. Generation.by recommends you this sketch film as a chance to take a trip to the capital of Belarus.
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