{"id":2658,"date":"2020-09-07T08:59:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T08:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/news\/the-womanly-face-of-belarus"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:28:30","slug":"the-womanly-face-of-belarus","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/the-womanly-face-of-belarus","title":{"rendered":"The View from Here (Here being Minsk)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The View from Here (Here being Minsk)<br \/>\nSVETLANA ALEXIEVICH IN CONVERSATION WITH NINA KHRUSHCHEVA<\/h4>\n<p>In post-election demonstrations against Lukashenko's quarter-century rule, women have become the unifying figures, and have given this movement its exultant tone. Lukashenko's brute muscle, with police and the military detaining and beating up protesters, has been met with transformative female power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><em><strong>Svetlana Alexievich<\/strong><\/em> is the 2015 Nobel laureate in literature; the HBO series\u00a0<em>Chernobyl<\/em>\u00a0was partially based on her book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chernobyl-Belarussian-Literature-Svetlana-Alexievich\/dp\/1628973307\/ref=sr_1_3?crid=4NDEMC4V7YJ7&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=voices+from+chernobyl+svetlana+alexievich&amp;qid=1599401952&amp;sprefix=Voices+from+Chernobyl+svetl%2Caps%2C146&amp;sr=8-3&amp;tag=airmail34-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Voices from Chernobyl<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><em><strong>Nina Khrushchev<\/strong><\/em>a is a professor at the New School and, most recently, the co-author of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Putins-Footsteps-Searching-Empire-Russias\/dp\/1250163234\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=In+Putin%27s+Footsteps%3A+Searching+for+the+Soul+of+an+Empire+Across+Russia%27s+Eleven+Time+Zones&amp;qid=1599401985&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=airmail34-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(co-authored)<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"news-kategrie":[48],"class_list":["post-2658","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-kategrie-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The View from Here (Here being Minsk) - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/news\/the-womanly-face-of-belarus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The View from Here (Here being Minsk) - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The View from Here (Here being Minsk) SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH IN CONVERSATION WITH NINA KHRUSHCHEVA In post-election demonstrations against Lukashenko\u2019s quarter-century rule, women have become the unifying figures, and have given this movement its exultant tone. 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