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The aim of this publication is to inform the public about
the current situation in Belarus and to prepare possible social
and economic alternatives for the country.
Is there another future than between EU neoliberalism
and Putinesque neoliberalism? Published in cooperation with
the 7th Berlin Biennale and the Kalmar konstmuseum in Sweden.
 
The 12 pages of the continued political comics illustrate how the situation unwound
in Belarus after the presidential elections in December 2010. All the latest developments –
i.e. political repressions, balance-of-payments and economic crises, a bomb attack in Minsk
subway, etc. – are described from two viewpoints: the first one shows how they are interpreted
by the state propaganda machine, the other presents information taken from independent
mass media and blogs.
 
The 16-page newspaper-size novel illustrates the events which happened in Belarus
during 2010 Presidential Elections. This is a story about the elections and, in particular,
of the day and night of December 19, when the citizens’ peaceful demonstration against
falsified elections was brutally suppressed by the police. The novel presents two views
on the developments in parallel. The first one shows how the events are interpreted by
the state regime and currently widely publicized by state-run newspapers and television.
The other version was assembled from information presented by independent media, which for
the most part can exist only in the Internet, i.e. blogs, oppositional websites, users’
comments, testimonies of victims and political activists.
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