cartoons

Belarusian Cartoons at Cairo Human Rights Film Fest

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 »

Pursuing Democracy in Belarus Through Satiric Media: Samizdat for the Modern Era

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 »