Press release
The action, launched on the initiative of the international radio Belarus on September 1, involves new continents. Online greetings to small homeland are sent by Belarusians from different countries: Russia, Poland, Germany, Georgia, Italy, Greece, Australia and the USA.
"I love the Belarusian cuisine, when my Belarusian grandmother comes to see me, we always fry potato pancakes or wheat cakes. My friends postpone their business and come to visit us. I hope for an early meeting in Belarus," Gwenda Strache writes from Berlin.
The editorial board received unexpected news from Inna Bisoul’s international family from Australia.
Inna Demianets has found her second home in the city of Kalamata in the south of Greece, but her heart has remained in Pinsk forever.
Belarusian Oleg Rudakov living in Irkutsk has shared curious events from his childhood in Polotsk.
Belarusian Yuri Shulgevich comes from Minsk, but now he studies and works in the German city of Manheim: "The future is dicey, but I think my experience is very useful." Education in a foreign language shows familiar things from another perspective. It has changed Yuri’s attitude to the Belarusian culture, language, history and, in fact, to Belarus itself, the places where he was born. Studying the Belarusian language has become his hobby. Now Yuri confirms that in order to love Belarus, we should visit other countries.
With the help of the international radio, famous Belarusians gladly tell us about their historical roots. Soloist of the opera Victoria Kurbatskaya, who lives in New York, recalls her colleagues and soloists of the Belarusian national opera. The action Homeland Calls With Tenderness! gave her the opportunity to address friends and colleagues and invite them to the festival Forte International Music Competition and Festivals.
In the meantime, the action Homeland Calls With Tenderness! continues to receive messages that facilitate the ties of Belarusians abroad with their historical homeland. Anyone who has Belarusian roots can send an online greeting. It can be done anywhere in the world by visiting the official website of the international radio Belarus radiobelarus.by and filling in a special form. Photo and video materials, as well as letters, can be sent to the email hellobelarus@gmail.com.
All online greetings will be posted on the official website of the international radio Belarus. The most active and creative participants of the action will receive prizes.
In order to attract attention to the action, radio Belarus uses information resources in 9 languages: the official website, satellite and FM broadcasting, the pages of the radio channel in social networks Facebook and WeChat. In order to establish close contacts with the Belarusian diasporas abroad, the information management resources of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus will be used.