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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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.
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Photomania - the blog of a Belarusian 23-year old journalist Ksenija Avimava, got the title of the best blog according to the result of “Best of the Blogs” competition organized by Deutsche Welle which were announced earlier this week.
Ak-bara.livejournal.com became the first blog in Russian to win this competition. However, this was not text that impressed the jury the most, but the visual reflection of daily life in Belarus.
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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…
