Being a journalist in Belarus is big responsibility: to yourself, to your family and friends, to your country. Besides, you must have a brave character, developed leadership, sense of reality together with sense of humor, good knowledge in different branches, especially in psychology. Else you will surely turn into the next screw of this tremendous mechanism called Regime. We have a lot of so-called journalists in Belarus only with diplomas after journalism department in university. But what does it mean without honesty? Nothing. This people look at us from blue screens of out TV-sets, from the main Belarussian channels – and we can here only false from them, and nothing more! They are obey to their chiefs, they are afraid to loose this job – and nothing more! It’s so pity to see how young challenging persons just want to make some money from this profession, but not to give people some facts to reason, some words to argue, different perspectives of one object, because in this case only some truth may appear!

But – thanks God! – we have a lot of brave and inspired persons, who don’t afraid to sacrifice their freedom and their “quiet life” just to be named real Journalists. They are writing articles for forbidden newspapers and web-sites, they are making videos and animation for forbidden (only one!) independent Belarussian channel (it translates its programs from Poland). A lot of them had been persecuted by KGB and police, some had lost their official work, someone had got in prison… But this people are still exist! They continue their work, because they cannot drop their ideas of justice and democracy though some people took it from everyone of us, Belarussians!

Journalism in Belarus is like a wild hunt: you never know when you may not to come back from next rally of political opposition, so, you always better must take some toothbrush and some extra socks with you: next morning you can meet in prison. Or maybe at home but with broken camera. Or with broken hand in hospital. It depends on what kind of truth you want to show to people afterwards.

Even if you are writing and filming just in cultural, social or youth sphere: someday you will find your own rock, something like: “Oh, you’d better not to write about it/ don’t film it/ don’t ask it/ don’t answer like that”. So, all our journalism less or more conjugates with political situation in out country: “sit down and shut up!” (© South Park)

You never know what will be tomorrow. But for sure nothing better than today, until you won’t do something by yourself. That’s the principle of each honest and active journalist in our country. And day by day… it works!