Belarusian Generation Y logbook

In Belarus there exists a strong blog-culture. One of the reasons for that is basically absolute absence of any possibility for young people to express themselves outside the Internet. In the environment where independent students and youth organizations are banned and NGOs are gradually dying out every year while their activists are all the time prosecuted, and in the streets even street artists get arrested many young people rely on blogs as the space of self expression. They use them to discuss topics from daily life to politics and international development. At the moment Belarus is on the 13th place in the rating of Livejournal users in the world with more than 20000 registered users. Trying to follow the trend Generation.bY is encouraging the development of this sphere in so called BY-Net and we are regularly making announcements about events connected to Blogs as well as soon starting our own project directed on support of Belarusian bloggers. Continue reading…