Belarusian Generation Y logbook

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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April started with an unusual exhibition in Minsk called “DEPRESS and Arrhythmia“. It was a collection of drawings and graphics from Ihar Varashkevich, a blues-musician from the band Krama who also paints, and Nika Sandros, a painter who makes pictures of songs. The exhibition was a truly unusual event in the Belarusian art scene and made many people talk about it, especially if we take into account how rare we hear about modern art of Belarus.

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