Download the pdf-version of issue 17 of Cultural Resistance Monitoring<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Stand with Belarusian Arts and Culture community. Donate to\u00a0\u00a0Donate (paypal.com)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Save Our Songs campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Belarusian PEN Center has prepared a large report<\/a> for 2020 based on the monitoring of violations of cultural and human rights against cultural figures.<\/strong><\/p>\n On January 25, <\/span>Dzianis Ivano\u016d<\/b>, an artist of the chamber choir of the State Philharmonic, was detained during a rehearsal. In November last year, Dzianis had already served 15 days of administrative arrest. The same term was given to the photographer <\/span>Marharyta Novikava<\/b>, detained during the action “Food Not Bombs” on January 24. <\/span>Viktar Carykievi\u010d<\/b>, about whom we wrote in the previous issue, received a year of general regime colony for a series of actions. The owners of the store <\/span>Moj Rodny Kut<\/b> Alena and Valer <\/span>Jesipionak<\/b> were detained “for selling unregistered symbols.” In Brest, the editorial office of the online magazine <\/span>Binocl<\/b> and the cultural space <\/span>Kryly Halopa<\/b> were searched, along with their the management. On January 29, police came to the Hrodna store Admietna\u015b\u0107, where one can buy goods with national symbols. <\/span>Siarhiej Vieramiejenka<\/b>, the store owner and activist, is said to have an administrative proceeding underway. The financial police came to the Minsk store Symbal.by: they confiscated all the equipment and goods, four employees were charged under Art. 17.1 (petty hooliganism). In Navahrudak, a pensioner <\/span>Alaksandr Bystryk<\/b> was detained on his way to a weekly tour of the city, and his house was searched. Poet <\/span>Julij Ilju\u0161\u010danka<\/b> was detained in Minsk on January 31 and sentenced to 25 days in jail on February 1.<\/span><\/p>\n The online store of Belarusian symbols “\u0411\u0427\u0411.\u0431\u0435\u043b” has temporarily suspended its work due to the inspection by the Department for Combating Economic Crime. Labor protection inspection visited the shop <\/span>Moj Rodny Kut<\/b> in Malaryta. On January 29, the exhibition “I can almost hear birds” by photographer Maksim Sary\u010da\u016d opened in the Brest space <\/span>Kryly Halopa<\/b> but didn\u2019t work for even an hour after the visit of the Ministry of Emergencies.<\/span><\/p>\n People all over Belarus keep being arrested and fined for <\/span>white-red-white flags<\/b> and even cloth of such colors on a balcony<\/a>, for white-red-white balloons<\/a> released from the balcony, for a photo<\/a> with a flag that was not even posted publicly, for chrysanthemums – white and red. The Prosecutor General’s Office announced the recognition of the <\/span>white-red-white<\/b> flag as extremist. For one day the petition<\/a> in support of the flag collected more than 50,000 signatures.<\/span><\/p>\n Cultural resistance: In the new issue<\/a> of the video project <\/span>Words are more powerful<\/b> a poet and translator <\/span>Hanna Komar<\/b> reads Franci\u0161ak Alachnovi\u010d; a second gig<\/a> within the series <\/span>Victory Artists<\/b> in support of Belarusian cultural figures, played by <\/span>\u041f\u0435\u0442\u043b\u044f \u041f\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438\u044f<\/b>; new works by artists inspired by current events in Belarus (Lilya Kvatsabaya<\/a>, NikaEmerald<\/a>, Artsyom Bobovnikov<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n International solidarity: a German platform<\/span> IndieRepublik <\/b>published<\/a> an article in support of the Belarusian Culture Solidarity Foundation and called on international colleagues to support Belarusians; t<\/span>Austrian literary community<\/b> expresses<\/a> solidarity with literary translator Volha Ka\u0142ackaja and Belarus people; <\/span>Pavie\u0142 Sieviaryniec<\/b>, who\u2019s been in prison since Juky 7, was awarded<\/a> the <\/span>Mikhail Zhyznevsky Literary Prize<\/b> “Warrior of Light”.<\/span><\/p>\n Read the details of last week\u2019s events in \u211616 pdf version.<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The newsletter was prepared by the\u00a0Belarusian PEN Center<\/a>\u00a0in cooperation with the\u00a0Belarusian Cultural Solidarity Fund<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The seventeenth issue of the Digest of Cultural Resistance covers the events which took place in the cultural field of Belarus in the last week of January. Particularly large-scale have been repressions against national symbols, affecting both individuals and businesses. They want to deprive us of symbols, our heritage and culture, banning them and punishing us, but those will live and so will Belarus, live forever.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":5300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4255,1],"tags":[4251],"class_list":["post-5299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-right","category-news","tag-culture-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8167,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions\/8167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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