Category Archives: Belarus
The first time I saw the ballet in Minsk was a performance of Romeo and Juliet in 1994. I was visiting Minsk in a previous life as a lawyer, and the ballet was the big attraction in town. In fact, it was pretty much the only tourist attraction in town at the time, except for…
A bomb went off on the Minsk metro the day before yesterday. Politics in Belarus can best be described as murky. The country has not historically had much luck. A third of the population died in WWII, Minsk, like everywhere else in the area, was flattened, then Chernobyl rendered much of its agricultural land unusable….