{"id":561721,"date":"2026-07-22T18:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=561721"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:18:11","slug":"fundraiser-launched-for-farewell-to-sviatlana-kurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/fundraiser-launched-for-farewell-to-sviatlana-kurs","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser Launched for Farewell to Sviatlana Kurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A fundraiser has been launched to organise a farewell ceremony for <b>Sviatlana Kurs<\/b>. A public memorial ceremony is planned in Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>Her family wishes to give a dignified farewell to someone who devoted her entire life to the Belarusian language, literature and journalism.<\/p>\n<p>The exact time and location will be announced separately by the family. After the ceremony, Sviatlana&#8217;s body is to be transported to Belarus, the necessary documents completed, and she will be buried in her homeland.<\/p>\n<p>To make this possible, the family has already had to take out a loan. The fundraiser has been launched specifically to repay that loan.<\/p>\n<p>If you have read Sviatlana&#8217;s books, if her words ever supported you, made you reflect, or helped you better understand Belarus, today you can support her family.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraising goal is \u20ac6,000.<\/p>\n<p>You can contribute <a href=\"https:\/\/bysol.org\/en\/private\/pa_shto_idziesh\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fundraiser has been launched to organise a farewell ceremony for Sviatlana Kurs. A public memorial ceremony is planned in Warsaw. Her family wishes to give a dignified farewell to someone who devoted her entire life to the Belarusian language, literature and journalism. The exact time and location will be announced separately by the family. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":561720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a611776c2d92.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Fundraiser Launched for Farewell to Sviatlana Kurs"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561721","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}