A scientific book on the history of the BNR banned in Belarus

Dorota Michaluk's book "Belarusian National Republic 1918-1920: At the Origins of Belarusian Statehood"

The decision to ban the books was made by the republican commission for assessing symbolism, attributes, and information products.

"All these publications are capable of harming the national interests of our country," states the Ministry of Information.

Dorota Michaluk's book on the BNR is a purely scientific publication. Its author was born, lives, and works in Poland, although she hails from Belarusians of Podlachia. Her monograph was published in Polish by Toruń University Press in 2010, and in Belarusian translation – in 2015. This year, the second edition of the Belarusian-language version of this book was released in Białystok.

In addition to Michaluk's book, this time the list includes three novels by Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin, several novels by William Burroughs, and the "pilotage" cycle by Bayan Shiranov.

Full list of newly banned publications:

1. "Our Neighbors on the Planet. Stories about Wild Animals" — Bouvin Jansen, Lotte Stegman;

2) "Dad" — Ellen Daltforzh, Quentin Gréban;

3) "Where Babies Come From" — Kathy Daynes;

4) "Happy Parents" — Laëtitia Bourget, Emmanuel Houdart;

5) "My Mom" — Cécile Stehpan, Emmanuel Houdart;

6) "Bees" — Piotr Socha;

7) "Pear Meadow" — Nana Ekwtymishvili;

8) "Belarusian National Republic 1918-1920: At the Origins of Belarusian Statehood" — Dorota Michaluk;

9) "The Child Thief" — Gerald Brom;

10) "A Heap of Bones" — J.D. Kirk;

11) "Inside the Killer" — Mike Omer;

12) "Buried in the Dark" — Mike Omer;

13) "Through the Victim's Eyes" — Mike Omer;

14) "Twelve" — Nick McDonell;

15) "The Scariest Book. Bezmezhnyak" — comp. M. S. Parfyonov;

16) "Finishing Everything is Not Necessary" — Olga Ovchinnikova;

17) "Participants" — Denis Epifantsev;

18) "Unwanted Children" — Kostelow Daini;

19) "Ziggy Stardust and I" — Brandon James;

20) "Monsters and Beauties. Dangerous Tales" — Soman Chainani;

21) "Legacy" — Vladimir Sorokin;

22) "Day of the Oprichnik" — Vladimir Sorokin;

23) "The Sugar Kremlin" — Vladimir Sorokin;

24) "The Pleasures of the Cannibal" — David Madsen;

25) "BDSM from Within" — White Incubus;

26) "Boys VS Girls. Children's Questions about Stereotypes" — Stéphanie Duval, Sandra Laboucarie;

27) "Low Pilotage" — Bayan Shiranov;

28) "Medium Pilotage" — Bayan Shiranov;

29) "High Pilotage" — Bayan Shiranov;

30) "Novel with Cocaine" — Mark Ageyev;

31) "Shamanic Cosmos" — Aillet Steve;

32) "Ibiza" — Colin Butts;

33) "Ibiza is a Verb" — Colin Butts;

34) "Ibiza Around the Clock" — Colin Butts;

35) "Junkie" — William Burroughs;

36) "Yage Letters" — William Burroughs;

37) "Junkie. Queer" — William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg;

38) "Narcopriest" — Nicholas Blincoe;

39) "Acid Heads" — Nicholas Blincoe;

40) "The Beach" — Alex Garland;

41) "No" — Linar Goralik, Sergey Kuznetsov;

42) "Travel Lamb" — Anastasia Gosteva;

43) "Marijuana: Forbidden Medicine" — Lester Grinspoon, James B. Bakalar;

44) "Altered State. The History of Ecstasy and Rave Culture" — Matthew Collin;

45) "Timothy Leary: Temptation of the Future" — Robert Forte;

46) "Psychogenic Mushrooms" — Dmitry Sokolov;

47) "Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream" — Jay Stevens;

48) "Roots of Grass" — Mike Thelwell;

49) "Jim Morrison After Death" — Mick Farren;

50) "A Scanner Darkly" — Philip K. Dick;

51) "Go" — Richard Hell;

52) "Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved" — Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin.

If these books are found for sale, the Ministry threatens to annul the state registration of the publisher or distributor, in accordance with the law "On Publishing."

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