* Abdsiralowitsch Ihnat, Der urewige Weg. Untersuchungen über eine weißruthenische Weltanschauung * Doderer Heimito von, Mučenije skuranych kapšukôv * Fleming Michael, Defying the swing to the Right? Historicizing the political orientations of the Belarusian minority in Poland * Heniush Larysa, Autobiography etc... * Karnyaljuk Vitaly, To a problem of defi nition of traditional lines of the West Belarus place (1795-1917) * Korbel J[...]

* Rezensionen * Skizze * Fleming Michael, The Political Economy of Marginalisation: The Belarusian minority in Podlaskie * Karnyaljuk Vitaly, Study of local lore and the person: a role of study of local lore and the regional specialist in formation new generation citizens of Belarus * Kozіowski Artur Roland, Belarus in the context of stages of transformations occurring in European states * Lajos Pбlfalvi, Jуzef Mackiewicz es a fehe[...]

* Rezensionen * Skizze * Varia * З ірляндзкай паэзі * З іспанскай паэзіі * З цыганскай паэзіі * Bacia Ewa, Entstehung des Sozialkapitals als Folge der historisch-kulturellen Bedingungen (am Beispiel einer Vergleichsuntersuchung zwischen zwei Ortschaften: Krynki/Ostpolen und Letschin/Ostdeutschland) * Fleming Michael, Talking about Biaіowieїa: Recent problems and issues * Hroh Miroslav, Nation as a Product of Social C[...]

* Rezensionen * Varia * Ackerman Felix, Ein sowjetisches Mitteleuropa * Czykwin Jan, The dice has been cast (Belarusian literature in Poland since mid twentieth century) * Drweski Bruno, Une petite fenкtre sur la Biйlorussie * Fischer Ulrike, Die iweiЯrussische Familie Paplawski im polnischen Zaluki * Fleming Michael, Nation and State in the immediate aftermath of war: The experience of the Belarussian minority in Poland 1944-[...]

* Ірляндская паэзія, (пераклады Алены Таболіч) * Калевала * Томас Транстромэр і інш., (са шведскай паэзіі) * Andras Zoltan, Az ófehйrorosz Trisztan es Izolda-legenda dйl-eurуpai цsszefьggйse * Baradulin Ryhor, Kiedy witają się dusze * Barscheuskaya Nina, The way belarusian emigration treats ethnographic of Belarus * Burlyka Ivan, Contemporary change in Belarus: view from Sweden * Burlyka Ivan, Do modern Belarusians care a[...]

I met Vasil’ Bykau in 1992 in Warsaw. As a member of the official delegation, headed by Stanislau Shushkevich, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, he participated in the Grand Opening of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus, the first one in a short history of this country. One year prior to our meeting I had translated the Ablava (The Swoop) by Bykau. It was published in the Literatura na wiecie monthly in 1991. It was already at that time when I considered[...]

I think that xenophobic people see in the so-called globalization a demon depriving the nation of its strength, sucking out nation’s blood, and tangling creative thought. Globalization is a matter of convention, but in practice it resembles a system of communicating vessels. If artists are to see in globalization a threat, one needs to ask a question – a threat to what and to what degree. Each situation of emergency should mobilize a search for an alternat[...]

Many public figures, scientists, writers and artists of the world consider that in the 21st century one of the most important problems will be national and racial, especially in multinational countries. First of all, it concerns Russia, the USA and other big countries. And this may cause the most acute and undesirable consequences. It is not accidental that at the very start of the 21st century the UN (UNESCO) declared about the dialogue of civilizations. [...]

The Belarusian culture is not widely known in Europe. It is connected with a little importance of Belorussia itself, and its only recent independence. The wall of ignorance about spiritual achievements of the Belorus’ is slowly being crumbled by the national literature, for example Wasil Bykau, a candidate for the Nobel Prize, translated into many languages. The Belarusian literature has only recently started to seek place in the European awareness. In ord[...]