Hrodna: activist of “Tell The Truth!” Tatsiana Kasataya is expelled from post-graduate course
The ideological pressurization is still growing in the
Hrodna State University
named after Yanka Kupala. Last week, on 8 October, the deans ordered lecturers
to keep students in class rooms during the People's Assembly. In the beginning
of this week it also became known about the expulsion of Tatsiana Kasataya, an activist
of the civil movement “Tell The Truth!” from the post-graduate course.
Bear in mind that in September Tatsiana Kasataya had been fired from the Hrodna
State Historical and Archaeological
Museum. The formal reason
was the expiry of the labor contract. In fact, Tatsiana was an active
participant of the electoral team of Uladzimir Niakliayeu during the
presidential elections 2010. She also collected signatures for naming one of
the Hrodna streets in honor of Vasil Bykau. The museum director, Yury Kiturka,
threatened he with dismissal.
One of the initiators of the expulsion of Kasataya from the post-graduate
course is her scientific supervisor, Valery Charapitsa, who was the dean of the
historical faculty during the Soviet rule, and later changed his views to
monarchy and Russian Orthodox Christianity. He is one of the apologists of the
theory of the huge positive role of the Russian state in the history of Belarus. In
particular, he actively promoted the installment of a schield in honor of Pyotr Stolypin, a Russian
official of pre-revolution period, on the building of the Hrodna Region
Executive Committee.
