{"id":540106,"date":"2026-05-07T17:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=540106"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:19:37","slug":"nau-publishes-report-on-systemic-destruction-of-belarusian-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/nau-publishes-report-on-systemic-destruction-of-belarusian-identity","title":{"rendered":"NAU Publishes Report On Systemic Destruction Of Belarusian Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The People\u2019s Anti-Crisis Management has published a report titled \u201cBattle for Belarus\u201d, \u043f\u043e\u0441\u0432\u044f\u0449\u0451\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0435 \u0440\u0435\u0436\u0438\u043c\u0430 \u043f\u043e \u0432\u044b\u0442\u0435\u0441\u043d\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044e \u0431\u0435\u043b\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u043a\u0443\u043b\u044c\u0442\u0443\u0440\u044b \u0438 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0432\u0438\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044e \u043d\u0430\u0440\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043e\u0432 \u201cRussian World\u201d. It was presented at a side event of the spring session of PACE in April 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The authors draw a parallel between developments in Belarus after 2020 and processes in the occupied territories of Ukraine, with the difference that in Belarus this occurs on a more concealed scale. The mechanism is triggered through denunciations by pro-Russian pseudo-activists, which are then picked up by propagandists and security forces.<\/p>\n<p>The report identifies several \u043d\u0430\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u044d\u0442\u043e\u0439 \u201cbattle\u201d. In the field of literature, leading independent publishers have been eliminated, and books by classical and contemporary authors have been added to lists of \u201cextremist materials\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In historical policy, monuments to national heroes are being dismantled while monuments to Russian figures are being installed, in particular to <strong>Aleksandr Nevsky<\/strong> in Minsk. Editors of the Belarusian Wikipedia are being repressed, and Russia and Belarus are preparing unified history textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>In education, the share of first-grade students in Minsk studying in the Belarusian language has fallen from 58% in 1994 to 5% today.<\/p>\n<p>In culture, attacks on cultural projects, the closure of exhibitions and festivals, and the Russification of theatres are being recorded.<\/p>\n<p>As countermeasures, the authors propose creating an online national education system accredited in the EU, carrying out large-scale digitisation of archives and libraries on secure servers, and supporting cultural figures and language schools in the diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>The full version of the report is available at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belarus-nau.org\/_files\/ugd\/1f864d_2549f48a0de34083917393cf4228194f.pdf\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The People\u2019s Anti-Crisis Management has published a report titled \u201cBattle for Belarus\u201d, \u043f\u043e\u0441\u0432\u044f\u0449\u0451\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0435 \u0440\u0435\u0436\u0438\u043c\u0430 \u043f\u043e \u0432\u044b\u0442\u0435\u0441\u043d\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044e \u0431\u0435\u043b\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u043a\u0443\u043b\u044c\u0442\u0443\u0440\u044b \u0438 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0432\u0438\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044e \u043d\u0430\u0440\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043e\u0432 \u201cRussian World\u201d. It was presented at a side event of the spring session of PACE in April 2026. The authors draw a parallel between developments in Belarus after 2020 and processes in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":540105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fd483c7d774.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"NAU Publishes Report On Systemic Destruction Of Belarusian Identity"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}