{"id":200158,"date":"2008-08-08T13:34:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T13:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/?p=200158"},"modified":"2021-05-08T19:02:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T16:02:41","slug":"200158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/2008\/08\/08\/200158.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEurope&#8217;s last dictatorship\u201d \u2013 BBC\u2019s new film about Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The journalists didn\u2019t manage to film the blast that took place soon after that. However, right after than arrests started. BBC journalist Lucy Ash follows an activist of \u201cBatskayshchyna\u201d (\u201cFatherland\u201d) association Nina Shydlouskaya in search of her husband, Miraslau Lazouski.<\/p>\n<p>A BBC cameraman miraculously slipped steal into the court where the trial over an activist of the civil campaign \u201cEuropean Belarus\u201d Palina Kuryanovich was taking place. She was arrested only for having a flag of the European Union in her backpack. After release Palina goes to her summer cottage, where the family gathers together. Her father says: \u201cWell done!\u201d and kisses his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody should fight, but who else if not us?\u201d Paval Kuryanovich, Palina\u2019s brother said. Together with journalists he heads to the roof of a house where a European and a national flag are raised.<\/p>\n<p>The film contains many interviews with different people fighting for the freedom of the \u201clast Europe\u2019a dictatorship\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>See the film here: http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/newsnight\/7536072.stm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first interview in the film features Hanna, an activist of the Belarusian Republican youth Union, who gets ready for participation in July 3 parade in her poor student\u2019s room. Hanna explains tirelessly as a topic during examination that \u201cit is really a great holiday for our country\u201d, as July 3 Belarus was liberated from fascism. In the evening the journalist finds Hanna in the crowd of people who watch the fireworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}