By this article we want to draw attention to the problem of systemic state slavery in Belarus. Officially slavery is prohibited by Belarusian Criminal Code (art. 181-1 of the CC «Use of slave labour»). The Belarusian...
On December 31, 2021, at about 23.00, police detained a resident of Rechitsa, Dmitry Uskhopov, who was standing with a friend at a public transport stop and was going to go to celebrate the...
Last year brought fresh ideas to «Our House» — we were the first independent source to launch voice chats in Telegram. The first chat took place on July 21, 2021, and political scientist Pavel...
A resident of Smorgon, who was 43 years old, died in an open-type correctional facility No. 43 in Mogilev. Here he was to spend two years, to which he got sentenced for insulting the...
The cultural platform became one of many non-governmental organizations that closed after the repression against NGOs began. It opened in Minsk in 2011 to popularize the Belarusian language and culture. At first, it worked...
Dmitry Uskhopov, a resident of Rechitsa, Homel region, died on the night of December 31 to January 1, two hours after he was taken to the police department by police officers and traffic police....
Belarus will spend the second New Year in a protest mood. In 2021, New Year’s Eve was remembered for many Belarusians with fireworks at 23.34 (in honour of the most famous article of the...
The most magnificent time is ahead – Christmas and New Year holidays. Bright Christmas trees and windows are decorated in many countries, and people prepare gifts. People make up the results of the year...
About 6 per cent of Belarusians are disabled, according to the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection. Easy arithmetic operations allow us to calculate that there are about 558 thousand of them in the...
This disease is relatively young – the first AIDS case was in the USA in 1981. Two years later, the singer Klaus Nomi died of it. And a year later, the French philosopher and...