The Book "Natallia Radzina's Belarus" Will Be Presented In Vilnius
- 10.04.2026, 12:42
The meeting will be held on April 22.
A new book by the famous American historian and publicist Yuri Felshtinsky "Natallia Radzina's Belarus: Journalist vs. Dictator" will be presented in the Visitor Center of the Seimas of Lithuania (Seimo lankytojų centras, Gedimino pr. 60) in Vilnius.
The presentation will be attended by Belarusian journalist, editor-in-chief of the website "Charter'97" Natallia Radzina, coordinator of the civil campaign "European Belarus" Dzmitry Bandarenka. The host of the meeting is priest Viachaslau Barok.
"Natallia Radzina's Belarus: a journalist against the dictator" is the story of modern Belarus, told through the fate of one person. At the center of the book is the Belarusian journalist and politician Natallia Radzina, editor-in-chief of one of the most famous opposition websites of the country - "Charter'97".
The reader together with the heroine goes through the key events of the modern history of Belarus - from the protests of the mid-1990s to the present day. The book tells about the struggle for freedom, political repressions and murders organized by Lukashenko's regime, prison, persecution and the main character's incredible escape from the KGB.
Many famous contemporaries also appear on the pages of the book - Stanislau Shushkevich, Dalia Grybauskaite, Lech Walesa, Andrzej Wajda, Boris Nemtsov, Leonid Nevzlin, Hillary Clinton and others.
The author shows Belarus as a separate European country with its own history and identity. Despite years of dictatorship, repression and lack of real international support, Belarusian society continues to struggle for freedom.
This book will be of interest not only to historians, journalists and political scientists, but also to everyone who wants to better understand Belarus and its modern history.
The book will be presented in Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian languages.
The presentation will take place on April 22, Wednesday, at 18:00
Address: Vilnius, Lithuanian Seimas Visitor Center (Seimo lankytojų centras, Gedimino pr. 60)