34 Multimedia Magazine (2006–) [Belarusian, English]

34mag.net is an online Belarusian independent youth publication, ran from Minsk since 2006. Aside from its online articles it publishes theme-based issues on CD-ROM of which ISO images can be also downloaded. The issues cover a range of topics including Belarusian art and culture, migration, sex, rap news, street culture, or zine culture. Selected articles are translated to English.

The magazine received several awards including Free Media Pioneer Award at the International Press Institute’s 61st World Congress in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (2012), Free Media Pioneer Award of the International Press Institute (2012), and Gerd Bucerius Prize Award in the category of Free Press of Eastern Europe (2007).

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Andrew Wilson: Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship (2011)

This book is the first in English to explore both Belarus’s complicated road to nationhood and to examine in detail its politics and economics since 1991, the nation’s first year of true independence. Andrew Wilson focuses particular attention on Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s surprising longevity as president, despite human rights abuses and involvement in yet another rigged election in December 2010.

Wilson looks at Belarusian history as a series of false starts in the medieval and pre-modern periods, and at the many rival versions of Belarusian identity, culminating with the Soviet Belarusian project and the establishment of Belarus’s current borders during World War II. He also addresses Belarus’s on-off relationship with Russia, its simultaneous attempts to play a game of balance in the no-man’s-land between Russia and the West, and how, paradoxically, Belarus is at last becoming a true nation under the rule of Europe’s “last dictator.”

Publisher Yale University Press, 2011
ISBN 0300134355, 9780300134353
304 pages

review (Lucy Popescu, Independent)

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