What Nasha Niva Wrote on These Days in 2016, 2006, 1996?

2016

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Nina Bahinskaya Celebrated New Year with a Flag

On New Year's Eve, a resident of Minsk walked from the Academy of Sciences to Independence Square with a white-red-white flag. "I'm already at an age where I decide what I want to carry," she replied to the special forces officers she encountered along the way.

Metropolitan Pavel: There is Nothing Christian Left in the USA

"Today America is making the same mistakes as the Soviet Union." "Only the candy wrapper is left, and the candy itself no longer exists"...

Russia's New National Security Strategy Considers "Decline in the Role of the Russian Language in the World" a Threat

That language can serve as a casus belli for Russians, we saw in 2014. Therefore, all of Russia's neighbors need to know this point...

How a Music Teacher with Tights and Stockings Defeated Individual Entrepreneurs. The Success Story of Valentin Baiko, Founder of "Conte Spa"

A couple of years ago, a complex of several cottages appeared in Lasosna Park. Several wooden village houses stood here before. But now they have become barns next to modern homes. The business elite of Hrodna built their cottages in Lasosna.

"No entry" — such a sign greets uninvited guests.

First beyond the barrier stands the house of Stanislau Siamashka, owner of construction companies and a hotel named after himself. He is that figure of the Polish movement who supported Alexander Lukashenka and, in the late 2000s, headed the "official" Union of Poles in Belarus.

Next to Siamashka's house is the modest cottage of the Baiko family. To be precise, of Valentin Baiko Sr. As for the business owner himself, they say he settled in Kalbasina. Once a village in the Hrodna suburbs, Kalbasina eventually became part of the regional center.

Baiko's residence sprawls over almost 30 acres of land. Behind a stone fence, built in a herringbone pattern, stand two buildings. A minivan with diplomatic plates is parked in the yard. It's no wonder that Valentin Baiko Jr. is the Honorary Consul of Ukraine in Hrodna...

Sviatlana Kurs: "I Might Be the Last Person Who Remembers New Year as Vasilie"

I'm writing to you and remembering scenes from when I was two or three years old. How they brought a 100-year-old grandfather to the TV, whose "eyes were still shining," and rejoiced, pointing a finger at "Swan Lake": "Look, Kostus, devils are dancing. Do you see, Kostus?" What Kostus replied to that, I don't remember, but he was the one who told me that ravens actually caw "blood, blood, blood!", and one should pay special attention when ravens gather in threes...

Most Read on nn.by from December 30 — January 22

1 New Year's Gift to Belarusians from Putin

2 "Russia" TV Channel Censored a Famous Scene in the Film "The Diamond Arm"

3 Nationality Test: What Do You See in the Photo?

4 Exceptional Frost — Down to Minus 25 in the North — Forecast for January 7 and after the 13th

5 How Putin Became Putin: An Investigative Film on How a Group of KGB Officers and Related Criminal Gangs Subsumed Russia's Economy

6 A 63-story Hotel Burned Down in Dubai Right on New Year's Day

7 Alexander Tsikhanovich: Alexievich? You can't hide a needle in a sack. The "psychiatric hospital" video? That was a PR stunt. Our fee? 30 million rubles.

8 They Left Us in 2015

9 Anton Matolka: Belarus — This is Europe!

10 Lukashenka Thanked the USA and Europe

"One Nation Walked for 40 Years — and Emerged Strong. The Republic of Belarus

in 2016 will mark the first anniversary of the declaration of independence. Although, in truth, there is no real independence yet. These were, rather, years on the path to it. How much further to go? It is unknown. But more and more Belarusians believe that "we will get there." Let us wish ourselves more independence in the Year of Independence," — wrote Nasha Niva in the editorial introduction to its first issue of 2016.

2006

(After the ban on official distribution, the newspaper switched to A5 format.)

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50 Lines from the Editor

First and foremost, thanks to those people who delivered the newspaper to readers in 25-degree frost...

Chances for the Fall of the Dictatorship

are assessed by Vital Silitski, Andrei Kazakevich, and Valer Karbalevich...

Yanka Laikou: We Live in a Free Country

A total of 46 writers submitted applications to leave the Union of Belarusian Writers to join Charginets' Union of Writers. Most of them are employees of the "Literature and Art" holding company...

With a 74-day Hunger Strike

Vaukavysk entrepreneur Mikalai Autukhovich achieved release from prison. During the hunger strike, 40-year-old Autukhovich lost 40 kg...

The Kaspiarovich Case

On January 17, at 10 PM, an activist of the Belarusian movement tore down the red-green flag from the roof of the Minsk City Executive Committee. Now he faces a year of "chemistry" (restricted freedom). What actually happened?..

Dear Nashanivtsy!

Heartfelt congratulations on the New Year. May "Nasha Niva" return to the catalogs in 2006. Adam Maldzis, Minsk

Advantages of Sex in the Frost

The only relative of the codfish in our latitudes is doing it now. At a time when all Belarusian animals, birds, and humans, huddled together, await warmth, in the abyssal depths, labyrinthine snags, and secret burrows, movement begins. Right now, burbots are having their mating rituals...

1996

(The first issue of "Nasha Niva" in 1996 was released on March 1.)

We and World History

Our feelings do not coincide with what Belarusian newspapers and especially television impose on us daily. We know that the giants of socialist industry have no prospects (a different matter — pity for the people); about the type of leader — "the most humane human" — we have already read much in historical journalism. But the abyss between us and the current regime is even more global than a total distrust of official slogans. We see that there is no politics, no economics, no realities here — everything is pure metaphysics. The Belarusian state today is a dream for Freud's experiments...

To Understand Dudayev

Dzhokhar Dudayev is not a wild tribal leader of Chechens, but a president elected by his people in democratic elections...

Force Against Intuition

In the chess match between Kasparov and the computer Deep Blue, the world champion lost the first game...

Why Did Avin Kill Kavel?

A new essay by Uladzimir Arlou about a bus journey from Navapolatsk to Minsk.

No Torquemada, with all his Spanish boots and other special torture devices, could extract even a tenth of what a red-fronted "Ikarus" bus, carrying me from Navapolatsk to Minsk, is capable of extracting from me...

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