Starting this week, the Belarusian Internet is open also to people who do not speak our language. All what is required is to ask GoogleTranslate service to turn Belarusian into any language that you understand. This is actually a huge event. From now on, another barrier around Belarus is broken. You can read by yourself different sources and not depend on those few which have an English version of the content. You can decide for yourself what to trust.
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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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An interesting article about Belarus has been published by Plotki, a project from around the bloc as they call themselves. The article tells about the Belarusian propaganda and the Internet as a tool of democracy and the only platform left for free disputes in Belarus. It was written by Volha Dudko, a Belarusian living in Prague. This makes the article more emotional as the young woman has the opportunity to compare and see the difference between the country where she is studying and Belarus, where her family lives.
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On the 19th of September many Internet geeks were celebrating the Birthday of the first emoticon :-) created by Professor Scott Fallman in 1982. In Belarus this date coincides with the adoption of the new state symbols of independent Belarus in 1991 which once changed the soviet national symbols. While serious established newspapers and online resources were writing historical articles about the origin of the state symbols and young people were congratulating each other with the Day of a Smiley, generation.by team connected all in one. We presented to BY-net a new set of adopted Belarusian smileys – 15 funny emoticons with red-white-red flags which became a hit in the BY-net this autumn. 
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