The Media Dialogue project is a network and cooperation of journalists, academics, artists and students from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Germany, Moldova and Ukraine to stabilise and strengthen democracy and a free press in the respective countries.
The rigged presidential elections in Belarus in 2020 were followed by an unprecedented wave of repression against media representatives and peaceful demonstrators. Security forces arrested more than 500 journalists, Lukashenko wiped out the country’s leading independent media, and many journalists were forced to Ieave the country. Glafira Zhuk, journalist and participant of the Media Dialogue 2021, spoke with Belarusian journalist Natalya Lubnevskaya about how she worked during the protests and how the media sector functions now.
-a podcast by Glafira Zhuk and Natalya Lubevskaya -post production by Lena Kronenbürger and Samuel Debus
