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United Transitional Cabinet
The United Transitional Cabinet is an Government in exile, alternative government for Belarus that was formed in August 2022. Creation Following disputed 2020 Belarusian presidential election, opposition forces, led by presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya formed a Coordination Council (Belarus), Coordination Council to facilitate a transition to democracy in the country. Tsikhanouskaya and several other members of the council were forced to leave Belarus or were placed under arrest during 2020–2021 Belarusian protests, protests that broke out following the election. The United Transitional Cabinet was formed on 9 August 2022 during a two-day conference in Vilnius after members of the Belarusian opposition requested Tsikhanouskaya to form "a united interim government". Aims and guidelines The stated aims of the United Transitional Cabinet are as follows: *"Defend the independence and sovereignty of the Republic of Belarus, represent the national interests of Belar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Belarus (1918, 1991–1995)
The national flag of Belarus is a red-and-green flag with a white-and-red Ornament (art), ornament pattern placed at the Glossary of vexillology#Flag elements, hoist (staff) end. The current design was introduced in 2012 by the State Committee for Standardisation of the Republic of Belarus, and is adapted from a design approved in a 1995 Belarusian referendum, May 1995 referendum. It is a modification of the flag of the Byelorussian SSR, 1951 flag used while Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, the country was a republic of the Soviet Union. Changes made to the Soviet-era flag were the removal of communism, communist symbols – the hammer and sickle and the red star – as well as the reversal of the colours in the ornament pattern. Since the 1995 referendum, several flags used by Belarusian government officials and agencies have been modelled on this national flag. Historically, the white-red-white flag was used by the Belarusian People's Republic in 1918 before Belarus be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Kavaleuski
Valery Kavaleuski is a Belarusian former diplomat. On 9 August 2022, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya appointed him as the Deputy Head and Representative for Foreign Affairs to the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus that is opposed to the ''de facto'' government of Alexander Lukashenko. Before that Kavaleuski was Representative on international affairs and then the Head of the Cabinet of Representatives in Tsikhanouskaya's team. Childhood and education Valery Kavaleuski was born in the village of Bieražnoje in the Palesse area in southern Belarus in 1976 and graduated from the Berazhnoe Secondary School in 1993. Kavaleuski obtained a specialist (equivalent of bachelor's) degree in international relations in the Belarusian State University in 1998, an Executive MBA at Kozminski University in 2008, and a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) degree from the Walsh School of Foreign Service in Georgetown University in 2014. Diplomatic service and life in Washington Kavaleuski w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyiv Independent
''The Kyiv Independent'' is an English-language Ukrainian online newspaper founded in 2021 by former staff of the '' Kyiv Post'' and media consultancy Jnomics Media. The online newspaper is also active on Twitter. Founding In October 2021, disputes arose between employees of the '' Kyiv Post'' and the owner of the newspaper. Behind them, journalists at the newspaper believed that even under presidency of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, their previous critical reporting was adversely affecting the business of the owner, who had bought the newspaper from Mohammad Zahoor in March 2018, and invested significant funds in the barely profitable newspaper. The owner is Syrian-born major investor Adnan Kivan (Kadorr Group, which owns Channel Odessa 7). Brian Bonner, the former CEO of the ''Kyiv Post,'' said in April 2022 that the newspaper's "fragmentary reporting" had brought it into conflict with every Ukrainian government it dealt with so far, including then current Zelensky's government. Acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle (; "German Wave" in English), abbreviated to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service consists of channels in English, German, Spanish, and Arabic. The work of DW is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act, meaning that content is intended to be independent of government influence. DW is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). DW offers regularly updated articles on its news website and runs its own center for international media development, DW Akademie. The broadcaster's stated goals are to produce reliable news coverage, provide access to the German language, and promote understanding between peoples. It is also a provider of live streaming world news which can be viewed via its website, YouTube, and various mobile devices and digital media players. DW has been broadcasting since 1953. It is headquartered in Bonn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarusian Partisan Movement (2020–present)
The Belarusian partisan movement is an ongoing campaign of resistance against the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko. It began in response to the violent suppression of the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. The partisans aim to depose Lukashenko's government and expel Russian troops from Belarus. History 2021 The Belarusian partisan movement emerged after the suppression of the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. In January, a Belarusian was arrested after an arson attack against a T-72 tank at in Minsk. The Cyber Partisans conducted a campaign of cyberattacks on the regime's internet infrastructure in mid-2021, including the release of personal information of thousands of regime officials, police, military, and regime propagandists. On September 25, a partisan cell under Busly liaciać attacked an OMON base in Uručča with an incendiary mixture dropped from a drone, and in December, another cell attacked a training base of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in . Throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rada Of The Belarusian Democratic Republic
The Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic ( be, Рада Беларускай Народнай Рэспублікі, Рада БНР, Rada BNR) was the governing body of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. Since 1919, the Rada BNR has been in exile where it has preserved its existence among the Belarusian diaspora as an advocacy group promoting support to Belarusian independence and democracy in Belarus among Western policymakers. As of 2022, the Rada BNR is the oldest existing government in exile. Formation The Rada BNR was founded as the executive body of the First All-Belarusian Congress, held in Minsk in December 1917 with over 1800 participants from different regions of Belarus including representatives of Belarusian national organisations, regional zemstva, main Christian denominations and Belarusian Jewish political parties. The work of the Congress was violently interrupted by the Bolsheviks. After retreat of the Bolsheviks from Minsk, the Rada (council) declar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarusian Democracy Movement
The Belarusian opposition consists of groups and individuals in Belarus seeking to challenge, from 1988 to 1991, the authorities of Soviet Belarus, and since 1995, the leader of the country Alexander Lukashenko, whom supporters of the movement often consider to be a dictator. Supporters of the movement tend to call for a parliamentary democracy based on a Western model, with freedom of speech and political and religious pluralism. Background The modern Belarusian democracy movement originated in the late 1980s when Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika and the Chernobyl disaster exposed the serious shortcomings of the Soviet system and galvanized a significant section of Belarusians around the issues of environment, de-Stalinization, national revival and democratic change. The dissolution of the Soviet Union brought about a brief period of democracy from 1991 to 1994. However, since his election in 1994, Alexander Lukashenko established an authoritarian rule creating a politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yury Gubarevich
Yury, Yuri, Youri, Yurii, Yuriy, Yurij, Iurii or Iouri is the Slavic (russian: Юрий, Yuriy, or uk, Юрій, Yuriy, or bg, Юрий, Jurij, or be, Юры, Jury) form of the masculine given name George; it is derived directly from the Greek form Georgios and related to Polish Jerzy, Czech Jiří, and Slovak and Croatian Juraj, akin to Spanish and Portuguese Jorge, and German Jürgen, and assimilated in modern forms such as German and Italian Juri, Portuguese Iury, and Dutch Joeri. The Slavic form of the name originates with Yuri Dolgoruky, Grand Prince of Kiev (c. 1099–1157), in early accounts recorded as ''Gyurgi, Dyurgi''. Yaroslav the Wise, great-grandfather of Yuriy Dolgorukiy, was the first Ruthenian ruler whose patron saint was Saint George. The saint is now depicted on the coat of arms of Moscow. Ancient and medieval world (Listed chronologically) * Yuri Dolgorukiy or Yuri I Vladimirovich (c. 1099–1157), Grand Prince of Kiev * Yuri II of Vladimir (1189– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artsiom Proskalovich
Artsyom ( be, Арцём), also transliterated as Artsiom, is a popular masculine name in Belarus. It is a version of the name Artem/ Artyom. Notable people with the name include: * Artsyom Buloychyk, Belarusian footballer * Artsyom Chelyadzinski, Belarusian footballer * Artsyom Hancharyk, Belarusian footballer * Artsiom Parakhouski (born 1987), Belarusian basketball player * Artsyom Salavey, Belarusian footballer * Artsyom Skitaw, Belarusian footballer * Artsyom Vaskow Artsyom Vaskow ( be, Арцём Васькоў; russian: Артём Васьков; born 21 October 1988) is a Belarusian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Polish club Stilon Gorzów Wielkopolski. Honours Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino ..., Belarusian footballer {{given name Belarusian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladzimir Astapenka
Vladzimir Arkadyevich Astapenka ( be, Уладзімір Аркадзьевіч Астапенка, translit=Uladzimir Arkadzevich Astapenka) is a Belarusian diplomat who was ambassador to Cuba, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Peru in the 2010s. Astapenka resigned in September 2020 in alignment with the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests that followed the 2020 Belarusian presidential election He was nominated to several positions in the Belarusian opposition, including Deputy Representative for Foreign Affairs of the Belarusian United Transitional Cabinet. and head of the Mission for Democratic Belarus in Brussels in October 2022. Birth and education Vladzimir Astapenka was born on . He studied Moscow State Institute of International Relations from 1980 to 1985. In 2000, he obtained his Candidate of Sciences degree (equivalent to a PhD) in international law for his thesis on "Evolution of the European Union in the light of the provisions of the Amsterdam Treaty of 1999". Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volha Harbunova
Volha Alyaksandrauna Harbunova () is a Belarusian women's rights organiser and trainer who was appointed Representative for Social Issues in the Belarusian United Transitional Cabinet on 26 December 2022. Harbunova was detained on 9 November 2021 and released to a sentence of three years of house arrest on 6 May 2022 in relation to women's rights marches held in 2020. She escaped from Belarus in 2022, prior to her nomination to the United Transitional Cabinet. Birth and youth Volha Harbunova was born on . Women's rights training Harbunova worked for the non-governmental organization Radislava, an organisation created in 2002 by and for survivors of violence against women, for 18 years as a psychologist and as a leader of the organisation. She trained police officials and officials from welfare and health care administrations in supporting the victims of family violence. Harbunova introduced the One Billion Rising campaign into Belarus in 2016. She created ''Norma Cafe'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alina Koushyk
Alina Kouszyk is a Belarusian journalist and TV host for ''Belsat TV''. She became a member of the Belarusian United Transitional Cabinet with responsibility for ''National Revival'' on 16 September 2022. Childhood and education Kouszyk studied history and teaching English at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and politics at the University of Warsaw. Television Kouszyk started work for Belsat TV around 2007, as a host of TV shows including ''Belsat Studio'', ''PraSvet'' and ''54%'' and as a journalist. Cultural organising Kouszyk organised Belarusian cultural activities in Warsaw, including the co-founding of the ''Centre for Belarusian Solidarity'' and ''InBelKult 2.0''. United Transitional Cabinet On 16 September 2022, Kouszyk was nominated to the Belarusian United Transitional Cabinet with responsibility for ''National Revival'', to develop Belarusian culture and education. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Koushyk, Alina Living people Belarusian women in politics Year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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