Kazulin on Dutch TV

Junior Eurovision

Yesterday, Belarus had a final of the national selections process and these three girls will represent Belarus in Cyprus:

Belarusian Solidarity

 

This is a sculpture front wall of one of the buildings in Minsk:) I noticed that there is the world Solidarity on it only two days ago :D

Point of view

I would love to share some other pics, in fact a photo story I posted few days ago.

Sometimes you work hard and do not notice things around. And then you open your door and meet a miracle. This is exactly what happened to me that day. I opened my door and saw it. It was a colourful sing on the floor, it was a tiny rainbow sign. I looked carefully and realised that it was all around: on the lift cage, on the stairs, on the walls. It did look like a miracle, though this miracle is base on a very simple optical effect of light dispersion through a glass prism in the window. This rainbow inspired me, I fell in love and took these photos. Keep your eyes open and camera ready :)

Taking pics

This summer i plan to take many different and hopefuly exciting pics. Some of those I will post here, some on the stock sites. I went to Lithuania few weeks ago at took this picture of Trakai castle:

I love trips to Lithuania, as Vilnius and Trakai inspire me a lot :)
Next trip was to the South of Belarus. Photos are coming soon ;)

My favorite commercial on TV right now

It's mainly basey on the play of words in Russian. The product is juce named Jucy. You need to know Russian to understand this:)

Piesniary/Песняры

Pesnyary, or Piesniary, was the band, which made revolution in the USSR. Its leader Mulyavin was not from Belarus, but he created a real Belarusian bomb. This band was the best known band in the USSR, it was the Soviet Beatles. Here is one of my favourit songs, it was recorded in 1772. I ever rememember that in 1992 in a summber camp we, as kids, made a performance about this Jas about whom Pesnyary sing:

Last submission for today:)

One more submission

I got involved into new adventure:)

Skoda - the real commercial

Today while watching a football match we were discussing Skoda and it's new commercial. I came home and found it on YouTube. I could not possibly stop myself from posting it, because this is the quality commercial. So here is the story about the commercial:

and then the commercial itself:

It's really great! Keep up the good work!

While writing about Pilsudski...

I found an interview of Milinkevich in which he gives answers to questions of a Polish newspaper [in August 2006]. Here is one very important comment, which a bit explains why Belarusians are so much afraid of wars.
"Question: Belarusians are considered to be quite people, which don't like to protest and demonstrate, they repeat "just not to have a war". Where does this idea come from? Is it a fear?

- Not many nations in Europe have experienced the same losses in the wars as us. Polish-Russian war of the 16th century - the Grand Duchy of Lithuania lost more than half of its population. In the times of Napoleon - one quater was lost; during WWI - one quater again; after WWII - one third. Plus add Stalin's repressions. That's why one should not be surprised that people in Belarus want not to have a war and dream to survive."

Mon amour

I've just watched "La vie en rose" about Edite Piaf, it's very intersting woman. Although in real life I think she was really beautiful and in the film they showed her as a funny woman:) I really love this song:

Belarusian bear in Poland

Belarusian online community is discussing who created this bear and why it is so strange/funny? :D Personally, I like it, it's not too sophisticated, but it's fun. Photos from pilecki.livejournal.com

Lost, or delayed...

Guess what I am doing right now! Uff, it's not so easy to imagine:( Well, I am on the floor in the Bucharest-Baneasa International Airport. Why? Good question! Because my Skyeurope flight was delayed, 2.15 hours. It was scheduled for 10 pm, now it's almost 11 pm, and the forecast :) of the departure is 0.15. I am missing all trains in Vienna and don't really know what will do there, will consider a taxi option I guess. So, Romania, International Airport, delayed flight, me on the floor with my old laptop plugged to charge near a bank machine, people staring and romantic music... Not fun, though, giving a second though, it could be worse. Now at least I have some slow WiFi, my computre is charging, I can write this and be less bored. Meanwhile, my friends from EYCA are parting back in the hotel, and my friends from the DA are parting also, but in Vienna. And I am hoping for a miracle to happen...

Milinkevich at EuroNews

Hundertwarsser's house from the top

It was published in online media as an example of weird houses:)

Slutsk sashes return home, i.e. Belarus :)

The famous collection of Slutsk sashes, which demonstrated the originality and skilful artistry of the Belarusian people, was lost during the war. These ones returned from Moscow's collection. Belarus owns only fragmenst of the Slutsk sashes and is trying to return as many as possible. Of course, Moscow wants to get something valuable in exchange, the outcome to be seen. At the moment the Slutsk sashes are presenten in the Belarusian National Art Museum where they will stay at least for a year.
A friend of mine took pictures of them: All pictures you can see on blog of Hleb Labadzenka.

New clip

Despire all the stories about her, I like this woman - Anzhalika Agurbash or Lika Yalinskaya. She is strong, beautiful and loves Belarus. I met her twice, both times I was participating in press conferences. I still remember her phrase, not in exact wording, but something like Belarus is my country and I don't need anybody's permission to return here. Now she is married to a Russian businessman and lives in Moscow.

and this one as a bonus or long live Belarus:)

Canadian supporter of Alehno at Eurovision

I found this video a month ago. This girl really wants Ruslan to win:)