{"id":143426,"date":"2025-06-20T16:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T13:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/143426\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"writer-siamion-bukcyn-dies-aged-83","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/143426\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer Siamion Buk\u010dyn dies aged 83"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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June 20, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Siamion Buk\u010dyn, a renowned man of letters and journalist, died on Friday, just under two months before his 84th birthday, the Belarusian Association of Journalists has reported, citing his son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Russia’s Kursk province on August 18, 1941, Buk\u010dyn lived in Minsk since 1949.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1967, he graduated from Belarusian State University’s Faculty of Philology. He worked as senior editor at the Belarusian Television (1967\u20131968), senior academic editor at the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia publishing house (1968\u20131969) and managing editor at the Belarusian Academy of Sciences’ news bulletin (1969\u20131985).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1998\u20132001, he worked as a journalist and lecturer in Warsaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first half of the 1990s, he was founder and editor in chief of the liberal newspaper Evropeyskoye Vremya<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also wrote for independent media outlets, such as Narodnaja Vola<\/em>, Bie\u0142aruskija Naviny (Naviny.by)<\/em> and Na\u0161a Niva<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buk\u010dyn is the author of more than 20 books of history, essays, non-fiction and fiction novellas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the BAJ, \u201camid total repression\u201d in early 2021, Buk\u010dyn signed the open letter \u201cStop the Brute Force of Lawlessness!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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