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Mass media about Lukashenko in 1990s. Statistics. Recollections in BelTA’s Parallel Worlds book

MINSK, 10 September (BelTA) – BelTA’s publishing house has released the book Superposition. Parallel Worlds with assistance of the Information Ministry. The book’s presentation will take place at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Belarus today.

During the presentation the news agency will release a special episode of the “How it was: DOC” project. BelTA’s exhibition Parallel Worlds, which has inspired the book, will also be open. Posters of the exhibition reflect two worlds: the creation and development world of the state and the destruction and degradation world of the opposition. The project’s photos vividly demonstrate what Belarusian authorities have accomplished in the last 30 years and what has happened to the opposition over these years. Actions and slogans, creation and destruction are part and parcel of the exhibition and the book.

The texts were written by the head of the analytical center EcooM, member of the scientific advisory group under the State Secretariat of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus Sergei Musiyenko. He has witnessed and taken part in many political processes in the country. The texts are based on the facts and statistics the author looks at from the point of view of his own experience. It is a particularly valuable approach.

It is a unique publication because it presents the entire diversity of materials from state-run and opposition printed media of the mid-1990s, which are not available to the general public. Newspaper headlines reflect the country’s life at the beginning of the efforts to establish Belarus’ independence. They also reflect the problems and challenges Belarusians faced and how the young state tackled them.

The publication also contains archive materials, up-to-date statistics, and screenshots of websites of modern mass media to demonstrate different positions of “the parallel worlds”. Readers are offered an opportunity to analyze many years of the opposition’s attempts to “demonize” Belarus’ reality on the one hand and efforts of the authorities to develop the country on the other hand.

The book is already available for sale in the retail chains Belkniga and Akademkniga.

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