© Minsk Cafe Babel
On July 17th, the Café Babel project in Belarus hosted a discussion on whether Belarusians are Europeans. Aleksei Bratochkin, a historian from the Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU) and Tatyana Vodolazhskaya – a Ph.D in Sociology, representing the Agency for Humanitarian Technologies took part in the discussion.
The discussion topic turned out to be broad, multi-faceted and controversial. It was initially planned to solely refer to the cultural aspects of Belarus-Europe interrelations; however “culture” is tightly related to the many political aspects, which ultimately reveal a number of issues within the subject discussed. The discussion gave birth to informed and competent accentuation of the definite hardships emerging when discussing the subject of Belarus’ belonging to the European space.
