A lot has been said about a unique Russian way toward democracy and freedom. Those who use such rhetoric, if only they do not use it only to suppress freedom, should look for ways to conduct liberal reforms and re-think the role of state in relevant Russian national traditions. These traditions, these national traits existed long before and still preserve their meaning.читать дальше »
Relations with one country should not be built at the expense of relations with another one. Nevertheless, in the current context of globalizing world isolation of a country inevitably leads to its degradationчитать дальше »
Geographic position of Belarus will always provoke politicians to make tough geopolitical choices. Of course, the ideal option is to “run with the hare and hunt with the hounds”, however, it is hardly viable in the long run.читать дальше »
Among the guests of the congress was also the leader of the liberal community “The Third Way” and the network “Belarusian reformists” Pavel Marozau, who expressed his hope for choosing the liberal and pragmatic orientation by the government of Belarus. “It is certainly too naive to think that we shall eliminate all the problems in this way. But international experience shows that free market and human rights respect – is the only possible way for European civilized state development.”читать дальше »
Pavel Yahoravich Marozau is a Belarusian activist that has been involved in the politics and diaspora community for the last 5 years. He created a cartoon called “Lukashenko”, named after the current president of Belarus, that details the politic workings of his home country and the government’s infringements on their citizens’ human rights. The short cartoons, each is around a minute long, are available on Youtube and several will be screened at this year’s Cairo Human Rights Film Festival that opens December 20.читать дальше »
In Belarus, where censorship is pervasive and President Lukashenko presides over an autocratic regime, humor and satire are key ways for citizens to express dissent and discontent with the government. In a 23 November 2009 lecture at the Kennan Institute, Pavel Marozau, Chair, Congress of the New Belarusian Diaspora of Europe and the United States, discussed his own activities as the Founder of The Third Way Expatriates’ Network and the power of satire and new technology to challenge the established order.читать дальше »
Exhibition of Belarusian artists “Art Against Dictatorship” is being held these days in Washington. Grand opening took place on November, 23 at the entrance hall of the House of Representatives, in the Rayburn office building. It was attended by representatives of Belarusian Diaspora in the US, US Congress and State Department officials, American NGOs, press, and private collectors of modern art.читать дальше »
A travelling exhibition “Art against Dictatorship” took place from October, 29 to November, 5 in the city hall of the capital of Norway Oslo. The exhibition includes 32 works by 11 Belarusian artists who live in Belarus or the USA: Ales Marachkin, Ales Pushkin, Ales Shaternik, Yagor Batalyenak, Genadz Drazdou, Mikola Kupava, Julia Shaternik, Yury Platonau, Janka Ramanovich, Alena Tylkina and Siarhei Arden. читать дальше »
Today Belarus is at the crossroads – how should it develop further. It is obvious that the model of providing would-be “prosperity” at the expense of free resources from Russia and Russia’s inner market is not going to work anymore. It’s time to pay the bills. The situation is being worsened by the world economic crisis, which haven’t passed by Belarus as well.читать дальше »
Libertarianism holds that agents initially fully own themselves and have moral powers to acquire property rights in external things under certain conditions. It is normally advocated as a theory of justice in the sense of the duties that we owe each other. So understood, it is silent about any impersonal duties (i.e., duties owed to no one) that we may have.читать дальше »