Belarusian Generation Y logbook

One does not have to explain how visas complicate the lives of young people, especially those from ex-USSR. Many plans, challenges, hopes and dreams crashed into the visa wall around close but yet so distant Europe. Here is another story which will hopefully draw some attention to the visa problem of young people in Belarus.

A Belarusian model, Tatsiana Rineyskaya, was among 12 lucky ones selected out of 75000 contestants in Benetton’s last online competition to become the face of their ad campaign. Her online followers cheered for the model when her achievement became known – a self-made 23-year old from the Belarusian province made it to the global level! We tend to notice, praise and boast about those Belarusians who make our country recognizable by something different from politics.

However, the “Beauty Ambassador” did not make it to the photo shoot in London where the winners had been invited to come. Continue reading…