The relationship between Lydia Delectorskaya and the famous Frenchman couldn't be further from the banal "artist and model" stereotype. His
The relationship between Lydia Delectorskaya and the famous Frenchman couldn't be further from the banal "artist and model" stereotype. His
Belarus Remembers
Belarusian memory of the Second World War once helped legitimise the Lukashenka regime. Now it is undermining it.
The Belarusian authorities described as ‘war’ the protests that have gripped the country since the fraudulent presidential elections of August 2020. This was more than a crude attempt to misrepresent the reality of the police and the army attacking peaceful protesters with brutal force. It was an effort by the embattled regime to use one of the country’s most significant historical memories – that of the Second World War – in its fight against the greatest challenge it has faced in its quarter century of existence.