Eyewitnesses 2023

Originally from Minsk, before the collapse of the USSR Svetlana was the director of the student philharmonic orchestra at the Institute of Culture. Svetlana was also a co-founder of the “Alternative Cinema” club. She is a witness to the emergence of the first civil society structures in Belarus.

Currently living in Poland, until 1990 Ljavon was a university lecturer in Belarus, eventually joining the opposition and participating in the proclamation of an independent Republic of Belarus. He has been imprisoned several times under Lukashenko’s regime.