Every week for just over an hour, a small group of people in Miensk, the capital of Biełaruś, dial into a secret meeting to keep the spirit of their country’s language alive. The meeting point used to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When school started ...

MINSK, 19 February (BelTA) – A literary evening dedicated to the International Mother Language Day and the Year of the Belarusian Woman took place at the Loshitsa historical and cultural complex, ...

A long-neglected language flowers in exile, novels and cyberspace, as a badge of resistance against the authoritarian regime. Illustration: Sanja Pantic/BIRN The Fellowship brings you long-form ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no longer called him by that name. Instead, they referred ...