Veterans Of Independence Movement Awarded With BPR medal

The journalist-popularizer of Belarusiness has been awarded as well.

The Medal for the Century of the Belarusian People's Republic was awarded to the veterans of the Belarusian Movement for Independence, as well as to Hleb Labadzenka, a popularizer of Belarusiness, the Rada of the Belarusian People's Republic. reports.

Iryna Voukava (Sheibak) - a prisoner of the Gulag for six years, arrested for participating in the Belarusian movement. She was detained together with Nadzeya Dzemidovich and Vera Kasmovich in Kengir (Kazakhstan), where she witnessed the famous Kengir prisoner uprising.

Yauhen Usiukevich is a military man, a member of the Belarusian national resistance and a soldier of the Belarusian Navahrudak Horse Squadron during World War II. A Gulag prisoner.

Anton Furs is an activist of the post-war Union of Belarusian Patriots, an underground independent youth organization. He was arrested and spent 9 years in Gulag camps in Kazakhstan for participating in it.

Hleb Labadzenka is a Belarusian journalist, writer, activist and promoter of the Belarusian language.