Is there a room for satire and sarcasm in a dull and hopeless life? Positive. Not everyone consumed by daily routine is able to step back and watch one's life and community from a distance. Ales Nyauves continues famous traditions of Belarusian satire. Pressing social, political and economic issues are seen from a different perspective via the author's verses, from a perspective that we do not usually see things. He mocks shortcomings of the present day society such as ignorance, narrow-mindedness, sloth, hypocrisy, corruption, fulsome flattery and lies. The author writes in the most complicated genre. His satirical verses are notable for accuracy and well-chosen epithets in which anyone can find comprehensible and intimate undertones. (Z.K.)