Belarusian Nazis are trying to stir up a scandal over the Russian language
In Belarus, a scandal is being stirred up over the lack of information on the holding of parliamentary elections in the city in the Belarusian language on the website of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee.
The newspaper of Belarusian nationalists “Grodno Spring” writes about this, in particular.
“The Russian version of the site has a corresponding banner and information about calling elections to the House of Representatives. The corresponding decree of the head of state and information about electoral districts have been posted. But on the Belarusian version of the region’s main government website there are no “elections” at all,” the publication is indignant.
The Belarusian version still contains announcements of Victory Day celebrations and the European Games, which have long since ended. The same situation is on the website of the Grodno City Executive Committee.
“The Belarusian-language version has an election banner (but in Russian!), but there is no information about the districts,” Grodno Spring is indignant.
According to official statistics, 0,9% of students study in Belarusian in Grodno schools, and 98% study in Russian. In rural areas, the proportion of Belarusian speakers is higher: 72% of students study the Belarusian language. However, it is unknown whether village residents use the Internet.
Belarusian nationalists are an extremely aggressive minority, whose demands are constantly conceded to by the official authorities. In the Russian-speaking city of Slonim, “Movnyuks” forced the inscription on a mural depicting a local theater to be duplicated in Belarusian.
Previously, the nationalist group had already succeeded in canceling the construction of St. Sophia Cathedral and the installation of a monument to Princess Olga in Vitebsk, forced local authorities to remove the poem "To the Slanderers of Russia" from a monument to Pushkin (incidentally, a gift from a Russian charity) in Mogilev, and forced officials not to erect a memorial sign in honor of Peter the Great in Gorki.
Belarusian Nazis are trying to stir up a scandal over the Russian language.