30 Jan 2008

The Intricate Story of Zmicier Zhalieznichenka

During the past months, the Belarusian public has been following something that one day might become a plot of a new Hollywood conspiracy action movie. The story of Zmicier Zhaleznichenka, a student expelled twice, does not fail to surprise.

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21 Jan 2008

Minister Suggests to Limit Access to Higher Education

The rules of entering higher education in Belarus are going to be changed soon. The attitude of the Belarusian state to higher education is also changing. The ministry in charge is already alarming about too many specialist with higher education diplomas and lack of labour force at the same time. What are the steps to be taken by the state to solve the problem?

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14 Jan 2008

“Traffic Jams”: Belarusian Style

Internet traffic often resembles the traffic on the roads. At least that is exactly what happened in Belarus on January 10th. That day there were traffic jams both in the streets and in the Internet. The streets in Minsk where blocked by protesting small businesses owners and employees. And at the same time somebody blocked the “roads” to a number of most popular information resources in the Internet, namely www.charter97.org, www.belaruspartisan.org and web-site of the Belarusian Service of Radio Liberty www.svaboda.org. Belarusian users also could not access blog-platform Livejournal.com during several hours on that day.

protesters blocking the street

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09 Jan 2008

The Ship Has Been Launched

Generation.by is happy to inform you that we are launching a Blog in English. Here we are going to share with YOU about the work of our project and the community. By reading this you can regularly get updated about what interests the youth in Belarus and what is happening with young people here.

Logbook is started
The blog will be regularly updated with approximately 1-2 posts per week and will explain most important news at Generation.by during that week as well as description of most interesting discussions and events that were happening. You are welcome to comment the posts and ask for more explanation of what they say about. Continue reading…