Too many people are silent. But this [politics] is not my thing… Although I have met some politicians in my life who were attractive to me: Mikhail Gorbachev, German President Roman Herzog… Our young Belarusian female politician Olga Karach. But I already told you: each of us has a different mission…
— Svetlana Alexijevic, writer, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature