Andrei Sharendo: Thanks To Such People Belarus Will Become Free
- 2.01.2026, 10:53
"Natalia Radina's Belarus is gripping from the first pages.
Coordinator of the civil campaign "European Belarus" Andrei Sharendo in Facebook shared his impressions from reading the book by American writer Yuri Felshtinsky "Natalia Radina's Belarus. Journalist against dictatorship." The opposition activist calls this book a textbook of modern history of Belarus:
- The book Yuri Felshtinsky "Natalia Radina's Belarus: journalist against the dictator" is one of those books that captivate from the first pages and do not let go until the end. Together with the editor-in-chief of the website "Charter'97" you live anew all the events of the last twenty-five years of my life, which come to life on the pages of this book.
September 2001 comes to mind at once: thousands of people on October Square on a rainy evening, disappointment and withdrawal into oneself. Then the frosty March of 2006 flashes by - tens of thousands of people on the same square, tent camping and the "march on Okrestin", the ringing of shields. After that, the nighttime Independence Avenue of late December 2010 - the euphoria of victory, the steps, the clinking of glass in the Government House, the rattle of batons and shields again, the first emigration. And a smooth transition to the events of 2017-2020 with the brilliant marches of summer-autumn 2020 - the Revolution of Dignity, which for me and my family (as well as for hundreds of thousands of other Belarusians) is not over yet.
This book is essentially the story of the new Belarus, told through the fate of one person, but painfully close to me and Polina, because we followed the same path as the protagonist of the book.
I am very proud to know Natalia Radina and to be at least a little involved in the work that she and her team are doing. I am sure that it is thanks to such people that Belarus will really become free.
You can buy the book "Natalia Radina's Belarus: Journalist vs. Dictator" on the following sites:
Belarusian edition - the platform of the Yanushkevich publishing house "Knigauka" and in Warsaw in the bookstore "Knigauka" at ul. Kłopotowskiego 4, 03-717.
Russian edition - "ISIA Media" and Amazon.
Ukrainian edition - "Drukarskyi Oleg Fedorov's Dvir" and Yakaboo.