"Analysis is not only a speech to the public, it is the work of self-development"

We provide direct targeted financial support to the artists and their families, who have experienced repressions.

The Belarusian Council for Culture has started the campaign in support of the musicians from the Irdorath fantasy-folk band and their friends detained on August 2 at a summer house near Minsk. Criminal proceedings have been instituted against seven people (five of them were recognized as political prisoners). According to human rights activists, the band members and their friend-bagpiper are charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (organization of actions that grossly violate public order). They face up to 4 years in prison. After all, they played in the streets a year ago, during the peaceful protests in Minsk in August 2020.

We conduct awareness campaigns among international partners of the state TV channels, who air the recordings of tortures of political prisoners, and spread fake news, meant to discredit the civil society. Among them — a successful #stopBTRC campaign, aimed to block the participation of a Belarusian band, assigned by the state to perform a song, mocking the protests, at the Eurovision contest