Дзень добры сябры, я купіў новы сцяг, вядома гэта сцяг мяста Омска

Hello :)

I’ll be in Minsk from tomorrow and I’m traveling mostly solo :)

If you’re around and feel like meeting up, grabbing a drink, exploring the city, or showing me some cool local spots, feel free to DM me! Would be great to meet some people and have a good time together.

19M, from Switzerland 😄

Hello, I recently started a social media account called Pulse of Belarus dedicated to raising awareness about Belarus and supporting the Belarusian diaspora and exile communities. I have designed several products I plan to sell when the website is launched. Some of the early products I’ve designed are a Belarus hockey jersey, and a passport cover. I hopefully plan to ship worldwide minus russia (and Belarus due to the risk of endangering people, I also strongly advise not to bring any of these products into Belarus.)

If I am able to launch this project. I plan to give most of the profits made to Belarusian organizations abroad that help the Belarusian democratic society.

If you have any suggestions please let me know :)

Наткнулся на очередной увлекательный пост в этом сабреддите (мемный, так что все добра/-э), что беларусы - русские со знаком качества....
Может русские это слегка забродившие беларусы???????????????????????????

И вообще, кончали бы уже господа с этой пошлостью низменной на национальной почве, конечно(((((

Hello, I know handful of belarus music artists - Verasy, the synthpop group and ##### (5diez). The thing is I am unsure if they sing russian or belarus, as I hardly can tell the languages apart yet. Is ##### in belarusian?

Over the years I’ve been now able to differentiate ukrainian and russian and I even heard belarus is closer to polish than russian. So give me samples of music in your language so I can maybe catch up on how it sounds.

I likebits of everything, but mostly dig either very vintage sounding music (psychedelic rock, 70s/80s pop music) or metal/alternative. You can of course share folk adjacent genres, especially folk metal if there’s some.

If you’re wondering, I’m from Czechia and really just curious about this for me unknown culture.

Порой слышенье акцент у украинцев, но я никогда не слышал у белорусов. Существует ли белорусский акцент в русском языке???

Hi. Have you heard about mariash (pol. mariasz)? It was the most popular card game in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. Adam Mickiewicz, who was Lithuanian, described the game in his Pan Tadeusz taking place in Lithuania (my translation):

Laughter broke out in both chambers. The Judge with the Bernardine
Playing in mariash and just with spades as trumps
Was about to make an important play; the priest was already hardly breathing,
When the Judge heard the begining of a story
He became so absorbed in it that, with head lifted
And card raised, ready to take the trick
Sit in silence, leaving the Bernardine in fright
And when the story was over, he finally laid down the pamfil.

This means that the game was very popular both in Poland and in Lithuania.

Here are the rules

Deal

The game was originally played with the deck of 36 cards (from aces to 6). The game was played with so called Polish deck i.e. German pattern of cards. In its basic form it was played by 2 players.

6 cards were dealt to each player. The 13th card was divulged and designated the trump suit for the rest of the hand. The divulged card was put orthogonally under the deck so that only half of it was visable.

Order and value of cards

Order of cards in non trump suits was as follows (from the highest):

* tuz (ace), 10, king, wyżnik (queen in the "standard" deck), niżnik (jack in the "standard" deck), 9, 8, 7, 6.

Order of cards in trumps was as follows (from the highest):

* pamfil (wyżnik of the trumps), tuz, 10, niżnik, 9, 8, 7, 6.

The aim of the game was to score points for cards and declarations. Value of cards was as follows:

* pamfil = 11 pts.,
* tuz = 11 pts.,
* 10 = 10 pts.,
* king = 4 pts.,
* non trump wyżniks = 3 pts.,
* niżniks = 2 pts.,
* 9, 8, 7, 6 = 0 pts,
* last trick is additionally worth 10 pts so there is 138 pts. in cards.

Declarations

A pair king and wyżnik (i.e. king and queen) of the same suit, so called mariash, is worth 20 pts. Mariash in the trump suit is worth 40 pts. Mariashes are declared when playing a card from the pair. Second card from the mariash must be shown.

Play

The opponent of the dealer leads first. He plays any card, afterwards his opponent plays a card. 2 cards form a trick. The trick is taken by player who played the highest trump if there were trumps in the trick. Otherwise the trick is won by the player who played the highest card in the suit of the first card in the trick. The player who took the trick draws a card from top of the deck so that he has again 6 cards. Afterwards the second player draws a card. The winer of the trick leads to the next one and so on, so on.

Till the deck is not depleted there is no need to follow suit or play a trump when unable to follow suit. When the deck is depleted you must follow suit and play a trump otherwise. The authers don't say whether players had to overtrump so I propose to follow such rule: in the second phase, when a trump is played, you must overtrump (play a higher trump). When a non trump suit is played you need to follow it, but you don't have to play a higher cards.

EDIT: owner of the 6 of trump can exchange it for the revealed card ("buy" the card).

Scoring

The game is won by whoever scores 131 pts. (with or without mariashes). If you do it in 1 hand you score 2 big point. If you do it in 2 hands, you score 1 big pts.

In the second round players count their points and if some of them reached 131 pts. and took at least 1 trick can end ("arrest") the game. If he was right - wins. Otherwise he loses automatically.

You can learn more details from my article here: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariasz

Cards

The game is best played with the Polish cards. Unfortunately the contemporary Polish deck has only 32 cards. It can be played also with the "normal" cards.

EDIT: Here you can see photos of original "Polish cards" from the times of the Commonwealth used to play mariasz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_playing_cards

Variants:

1. Polished mariash (pol. Mariasz szlifowany) - played with the deck of 24 cards - without 9s, 8s and 7s. 6s are lowest. Polished mariash was more popular in the Commonwealth than the original game.
2. 36 and 24 are divsable by 3 so the game can be normally played by 3 players.
3. Mariash for 4 players - so called kiks. Players play in pairs. Partners sit opposite to each other. All cards are dealt. There is only 1 phase. Players must from the start follow suit and, when unable, trump.

Afterword

How do you like it? Reading it you can notice similarities with some contemporary games.

Please, try to play it. I think that every inhabitant of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth should play mariash at least once in his life :) At least those interested in the history and culture od the Commonwealth. Play it and feel as a nobleman from 18th or 19th century ;)

Pic shows wyżniks from the Polish deck.

How is contemporary literature in Belarusian? Are the any interesting authors? What did you read last time?

Perhaps you write something in Belarusian yourself? Short stories, novels, poems? If not you, perhaps some of your friends of family?

Мне 16 лет и в ближайшие 3 года я хочу переехать из россии в беларусь, тк в россии ситуация ну не сок. И я была этим летом в Беларуси и мне ну уж слишком понравилось, цены явно ниже российских, зп вроде от 60к российских рублей, а в росии в среднем 30к. Вопрос к тем, кто живет в Беларуси достаточно долго, какие там минусы о которых все молчат и какие плюсы? Мне хочется знать всю правду и принять решение в кротчайшие сроки, тк я хочу переехать туда сначало под предлогом учебы, а потом принять гражданство. Подскажите пожалуйста

The place is infested with low-ballers and borderline scum resellers. Manners meter- sub zero. What happened to all those 'well-mannered' and 'polite' Belarusians?

Hello,

Ethnic Russians use mat a lot.

Ukrainians use mat a lot.

Yesterday I was walking home from work, some Ukrainian started calling his buddy

Almost the first word was Blyad!

He did not sound angry, in fact he was apparently in a good mood.

Belarusians I met did not use mat words.

But I didn't get a chance to meet many Belarusians.

Maybe Belarusians I met were an exception.

Or maybe Belarusian people are more cultured than other Eastern Slavs.

Please tell me.

How are Catholics viewed in Belarus? Are they and orthodox about as equally religious? I know they're is anomosity between the church and the government.

Находится в Старом городе по улице Didžioji g. 19.

1. Янка Купала.

2. «У гэтым доме з 1928 па 1939 год жыў выдатны беларускі дзеяч культуры Рыгор Шырма». Григорий Ширма посвятил жизнь собиранию белорусских народных песен. За свою жизнь он записал и исследовал около 5000 народных песен и уникальных фольклорных произведений.