Contributors
Valyantsin Akudovich, Ales Antsipenka and Maksim Zhbankou held a launch party
for a new issue of the pARTisan magazine in Mahilyou on Thursday as part of the
Budzma campaign. The issue focuses on loser culture, which transformed into
"an ill-fortune nation" stereotype in Belarus."pARTisan reflects on mutations of Western
losership on the local territory. It is a mixture of Charles Bukowski and Tom
Waits with Belarusian classical 'It will be trouble' and post-modernist 'We
Belarusians, we deserve it.'"
Antsipenka noted that pARTisan features new authors, including young intellectuals
like Maryyka Martysevich and Paval Svyardlou.