{"id":43898,"date":"2022-09-26T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T20:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/european-writers-council-calls-on-international-community-to-stand-up-for-belarusian-language\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"european-writers-council-calls-on-international-community-to-stand-up-for-belarusian-language","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43898\/","title":{"rendered":"European Writers\u2019 Council calls on international community to stand up for Belarusian language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>September 26, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> The European Writers\u2019 Council <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanwriterscouncil.eu\/freeallwords-europeandayoflanguages2022\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">has called<\/a> on the international community to help preserve and protect the Belarusian and Ukrainian languages.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIn Belarus, the discrimination and oppression of the Belarusian language and its speakers have been carried out by the state system itself for more than 20 years,\u201d it said. \u201cAfter the rigged presidential election in 2020, the situation has essentially worsened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIn 2022, in Belarus, people are being imprisoned for the very fact of using the Belarusian language and Belarusian-language books are being included in the list of \u2018extremist materials,\u2019\u201d it noted.<\/p>\n<p> EWC president Nina George denounced attacks on identity and freedom of expression, saying that standing up for the languages of Europe\u2019s neighbors is part of protecting its fundamental values.<\/p>\n<p>Belarusian intellectuals have long accused the authorities in Minsk of Russification policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 26, BPN. The European Writers\u2019 Council has called on the international community to help preserve and protect the Belarusian and Ukrainian languages. \u201cIn Belarus, the discrimination and oppression of the Belarusian language and its speakers have been carried out by the state system itself for more than 20 years,\u201d it said. \u201cAfter the rigged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-43898","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>European Writers\u2019 Council calls on international community to stand up for Belarusian language | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 26, BPN. 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