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BelTA wins Belarus president’s special prize for art luminaries

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MINSK, 19 December (BelTA) – Belarusian Telegraph Agency has won the Belarus president’s special prize for culture and art luminaries, BelTA learned from the press service of the head of state.

The Belarus president has bestowed ten special prizes upon culture and art luminaries in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the area of theater art, music art, applied and decorative arts, in education and nurturing of creative young people, who have earned public recognition.

The awardees include Belarusian Telegraph Agency, the national state television and radio company Belteleradiocompany, the Prosecutor General’s Office. They received the special prize in recognition of the significant contribution to the preservation of historic memory and truth about the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the realization of the projects “Last Witnesses” and “Genocide. No right to live”.

The book Last Witnesses is a joint creative project of BelTA and the Prosecutor General’s Office. The book includes stories told by underage prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. The stories were written down by investigators as part of the Prosecutor General’s Office’s criminal investigation into the genocide of the Belarusian nation. Materials published by reporters on BelTA web resources for an entire year represent the core of the book. The book’s publication was timed to the Year of Historical Memory.

Authors of the project hope that the book will help readers, particularly young ones, see the history as witnessed by the people, who were directly involved in those dreadful events. The book is also expected to help shape the right attitude to the Great Patriotic War. It will ultimately help raise genuine patriots, people with a proactive approach to life, who are ready to fight for the freedom and independence of their country, for preserving peace and preventing tragedies like the one Belarusians had to live through during the war.

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