Belarusian Americans rally in support of political prisoners back home

As a political and ecological activist living in a small provincial town, Vitold Ashurak was especially inconvenient to the regime. After all, the notions of stable and widespread support of the Belarusian government outside of the metropolitan areas have been one of the main pillars of the state-sponsored media for decades — which also was […]

Interview from the front lines in Ukraine: Why Belarusians join the fight against Russia?

Today we’re speaking to Pavel Kulazhanka, a Belarusian dissident who lived in New York before the war in Ukraine started. Soon after the invasion began, he decided to volunteer and join the Ukrainian army to fight Russia. Pavel is now a member of the Kastuś Kalinoŭski Battalion, one of the Belarusian volunteer military units that […]