During the event dedicated to the Russian composer Alyaksandr Lukashenka spoke unfavorably about Svetlana Alexievich.
An event with the Russian composer Viktar Drobysh took place in Minsk-Arena. The head of state presented the composer with the Frantsysk Skaryna award. He emphasized that he appreciates work of Viktar Drobysh, but “most of all I appreciate the fact that you never, even being far away from our homeland, when people did not speak well about us, you did not hesitate to call yourself Belarusian, unlike some of our ‘creators’.”
“I will also speak about some of our ‘creators’, creative people, even Nobel Prize winners, who had barely received it when they left the country and tried to pour a bucket of mud on the country. This is wrong, this is not the opposition. This is absolutely wrong, because we cannot choose homeland, or parents, our mother. They are what they are. If you talk bad about homeland, if you are ashamed of it, then it is you who is a bad son,” said Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
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