12-14 april 2016BELARUSDAGARNA

The Belarus Days 2016 takes o� with a live gig by rising Belarusian electro pop star Natallia Kunitskaya,

Tuesday, April 12th (concert/talk)

feat MUSTELIDE

alias MUSTELIDE. We are immensely proud to announce that she will now bring her smart and heartfelt music to Stockholm, for the �rst time ever! Make sure not to miss out!

The evening will start with an informal discussion about contemporary Minsk. From some distance it seems as if alternative culture is on the rise, if not thriving. Is that so and how does it relate to the authoritarian obsession with control we’ve got used to associate with Belarus? We’ll talk about the politics of stages and, �ipping the coin, about how politics in Belarus are being staged.

Main personae of the evening:Natallia Kunitskaya – MUSTELIDE (singer/composer/producer)Iryna Vidanava (founder and director of Minsk online magazine CityDog.by)Imke Hansen (historian and political scientist, Libereco)

When and where: April 12th, 7 pm at Teater Giljotin, Torsgatan 41, StockholmHow: The event is free of charge but you need to register in advance at https://simpleeventsignup.com/event/74620, no later than April 10th. We will only take up registrations as long as there is space left to �ll.

Wednesday, April 13th

Main seminar (full day):

Language: English and Russian with interpretation to English

Belarus: second hand future?

Participants:Agneta Söderberg Jakobsson (programme manager, Belarus at Fojo Media Institute)Ales Bialiatski (chairperson, Human Rights Center Viasna) Andrei Aliaksandrau (deputy director of Belarusian news agency BelaPAN)Andrei Zavalei (MakeOut)Iryna Vidanava (founder of on-line magazines CityDog.by and 34mag.net)Jon Fridholm (Östgruppen)Lana Willebrand (Forum Syd, Belarus programme)Martin Hagström (ambassador for the Eastern Partnership at the Swedish MFA)Martin Uggla (chairperson, Östgruppen) Raisa Mikhailovskaya (director, Belarusian Documentation Center)

Time and location: April 13th, 9 am to 3 pm, at the Royal Coin Cabinet, Slottsbacken 6, Stockholm. Tea, co�ee and sandwich at 8.30. Lunch at own expense.

Torsdag 14 april

Wednesday April 13th, continued...

Seminarium:

Hur skall EU fortsätta sitt ”kritiska engagemang”, i Belarus efter sanktionspolitiken? Och har krav på demokratiska reformer fått ge plats åt geopolitiska hänsynstaganden? Europa vill motverka att landet för�yttas längre in i den ryska intressesfären utan att riskera �er kon�ikter i sitt närområde. Resultatet av en sådan ekvation tycks bli status quo. Är ”stabilitet” på väg att bli det nya ledord som förenar EU och regimen i Minsk? Och vilken roll kan OSSE spela i Belarus? Kommer deras rekommendationer att hörsammas under stundande parlamentsval?

Medverkande:Ales Bjaljatski (ordförande för det belarusiska Människorättscentret Vjasna, fd politisk fånge)Kent Härstedt (vice ordförande i OSSE:s parlamentariska församling, ledde OSSE:s valobservationsmission under det senaste presidentvalet i Belarus)Petra Lärke (chef för Östeuropasektionen på UD:s avdelning för Östeuropa och Centralasien)Martin Uggla (ordförande Östgruppen)Moderator: Amanda Lövkvist (OSSE-nätverket, vice generalsekreterare på SILC)

Var och när: ABF (Sveavägen 41, Stockholm),14 april, kl 13-15Språk: svenska och ryska med tolkningArrangörer: Östgruppen i samarbete med ABF och OSSE-nätverket

Vad kan EU och OSSE göra för Belarus?

Seminar programme, April 13th (in brief):

08:30 - 09:00 Co�ee and sandwich

14:45 - 15:00 (V) Summary and conclusions

13:15 - 14:45 (IV) Civil Society: coming out, getting through (Andrei Zavalei , Raisa Mikhailovskaya, Lana Willebrand)

12:00 - 13:15 Lunch break

10:45 - 12:00 (III) EU and Belarus: new openings or business as usual? (Ales Bialiatski , Martin Hagström, Jon Fridholm)

10:30 - 10:45 Short break

09:15 - 10:30 (II) Belarus by proxy: media, control and creativity (Andrei Aliaksandrau , Iryna Vidanava, Agneta Söderberg Jakobsson)

09:00 - 09:15 (I) Introduction (Martin Uggla, Lana Willebrand)

For full information on the seminar programme, see: www.ostgruppen.se

Register at http://simpleeventsignup.com/event/74632, no later than April 11th

Torsdag 14 aprilDocumentary and talk:

Fotogra�: © Siarhei H

udzilin (hudzilin.com)

Text och formgivning: Jon Fridholm

Welcome to a screening of the documentary “The Gang” (Belarus, 2015), about the abductions and presumed deaths of political opponents of the Belarusian regime, sixteen years ago. The �lm brings together new and archived material to shed light on what actually happened. Still unsolved, these cases continue to be a burning issue for relatives, friends and society at large, and also in international relations. When EU decided to lift sanctions against Belarusian o�cials earlier this spring, four persons suspected of being involved in these crimes were excluded.

After the screening we will talk with the director of the �lm, Raisa Michailovskaya, and the Belarusian media expert, Andrei Aliaksandrau.

When: Thursday April 14, 6.30 to 9 pmWhere: Biografen Zita (Salong 2), Birger Jarlsgatan 37, StockholmTickets: Free of charge, but seats are limited and you need to register in advance at http://simpleeventsignup.com/event/74635, no later than April 12th.

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