28 Nov 2007
Storm in a Tea Cup or Muscians and Politics
The visit of the 5 most famous belarusian rock musicians – Lyavon Volski (NRM), Pete Paulau (NRM), Aliaksandar Kulinkovich (Neuro Dubel), Ihar Varashkevich (Krama) and Aleh Hamenka (Palac) – to the main “ideologist” of the country – Aleh Praliaskouski – raised a great debate among Belarusian bloggers about politics in music and loyalty to the principles of democracy. The bloggers community divided into two fractions: those who think that the musicians betrayed democratic principles by collaborating with the Belarusian regime (in their opinion going to a meeting to which they were invited is already a form of political collaboration) and those who defend the musicians from groundless accusation of political mistakes.
