The Francišak Skaryna Belarusian Language Society (, TBM) is an association in

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. The association's main activity is advocacy and promotion of the

Belarusian language Belarusian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language. It is one of the two Languages of Belarus, official languages in Belarus, the other being Russian language, Russian. It is also spoken in parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Polan ...

History and profile

The TBM was founded in 1989 on an initiative a group of Belarusian intellectuals by

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, the Ministries of Education and of Culture, the Institutes of Linguistics and of Literature of the Belarus Academy of Sciences, the Belarusian Cultural Fund, the State Committee on the Press, the Belarusian Society of Friendship and Cultural Links with Foreign Countries, and the National State Television and Radio Company."The Belarusian Language Society (BLS) "
/ref> TBM has organized numerous campaigns of promotion of the Belarusian language, such as demands of introduction of Belarusian notifications in the public transport, description of goods in Belarusian on

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s, promotion of primary and higher education in Belarusian language. Although the organization opposes the official

russification Russification (), Russianisation or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians adopt Russian culture and Russian language either voluntarily or as a result of a deliberate state policy. Russification was at times ...

policy of

Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (also transliterated as Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka; born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the office's establishment in 1994, making hi ...

and many notable opposition leaders and activists are members of the TBM, it stays away from politics and stays firmly within its declared goals. In July 2021, Belarusian authorities conducted a search in the office of the society, and in August

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applied for liquidation of this society in the

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.ТБМ через неделю могут ликвидировать, а вместе с ним газеты «Новы час» и «Наша слова»
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Chairperson

*from 2017:

Alena Anisim Alena Mikalajeŭna Anisim (née Amelčyc; born 28 September 1962) is a Belarusian opposition politician, linguist and former member of the House of Representatives of Belarus, the lower house of the National Assembly of Belarus. She is additiona ...

, Member of Parliament *1999 – 2017: Aleh Trusaŭ lso: Oleg Trusov historian *1997 – 1999: Henadz Buraukin lso: Gennady Buravkin, Genadz Burawkin poet *1989 – 1996:

Nil Hilevich Nil Symonavich Hilevich (; ; 30 September 1931 – 29 March 2016) was a Belarusian poet, a professor in the Belarusian State University, the author of more than 80 books of poetry, publications, and translations, and one of the founders of the F ...

, poet

References

External links

Official Website

Leaflet about the Frantsishak Skaryna Belarusian Language Society
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