Mikhail Veller: I was proposed to write in Belarusian

Writer Mikhail Weller met today with journalists and his fans in the framework of the 17th International Book Fair that opened in Minsk. The popular Russian writer recalled the times when he went to a school in Mahilyou and wished to publish his first poems. "When I studied in Belarus, books in the Belarusian language were on  bookstore shelves quite freely... It was hard to get books in Russian, the Belarusian-language books were not in demand. When I brought my poems for the first time to Znamya Yunosti newspaper in Minsk, I was told to write in Belarusian".

Mikhail Weller failed to recall his favorite Belarusian writes and called it a disaster of his biography.