Belarusian Review

Recent events about the historical publication Arche,мand also about Hrodnaznaŭstva, actually reflect the fight between two views - what kind of country should Belarus be ? Intellectuals, clustered in non-governmental civic structures, present a European Belarus, while the head of state and his entourage see Belarus as a Eurasian country. They are resisting the European trend by all means. True, they are not destroying it physically, as in Stalin’s time. However, they are severely limiting its appeal, by using it in a political game with the West. Whenever the European orientation gains in strength and dangerously influences the society, repressions begin. The Europeanness is being again driven into the boundaries of an assigned ”Bantustan.”