{"id":116391,"date":"2024-12-02T20:48:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T17:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/116391\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"hrodna-government-refuses-to-honor-prominent-writer-with-plaque","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/116391\/","title":{"rendered":"Hrodna government refuses to honor prominent writer with plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1128\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/bykov-vasil-20241202.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/bykov-vasil-20241202.jpg 1128w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/bykov-vasil-20241202-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/bykov-vasil-20241202-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/bykov-vasil-20241202-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/bykov-vasil-20241202-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1128px) 100vw, 1128px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n        Illustration photo         <span>(Pozirk)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 2, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> The Hrodna City Executive Committee has rejected citizens&#8217; petition to commemorate writer Vasil Byka\u016d with a plaque, <em>Hrodna.Life<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petition suggested attaching the plaque to the house on Vialikaja Trajeckaja Street where the novelist lived for some time since 1958. It is an important cultural site, according to the appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The executive committee replied that the city budget does not provide for expenditures on the site. However, it noted that in January 2023, the Hrodna history museum expanded its exhibition dedicated to Byka\u016d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Byka\u016d&#8217;s novels on World War II are regarded as Belarusian classics. He was a prominent supporter of national renaissance, independence and democracy. His funeral in Minsk in 2003 turned into a large opposition demonstration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/veniamin-sputnik-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/veniamin-sputnik-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/veniamin-sputnik-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/veniamin-sputnik-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/veniamin-sputnik-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/veniamin-sputnik.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Society<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics, Society<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Belarus\u2019 morality council bans its first theater show<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">October 21, Pozirk. 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