On the 106th anniversary of the declaration of independence of the Belarusian People's Republic, the Chairman of the Council of the Belarusian People's Republic
Ivonka Survilla
signed decrees on awards for services to the Belarusian people:
Zyanon Pazniak
- for the most important contribution to the independence of Belarus, national revival, protection of democracy,
human rights defender
Ales Bialiatskii
- for outstanding merits of moral and social leadership on a national scale in the protection of civil and national-cultural rights and legality of Belarus in conditions of personal danger, as well as two political prisoners, whose names have not yet been published due to reasons of personal safety.
The same award was given to two religious and spiritual leaders of the national scale, whose names have not yet been released.
Awarded the medal of the Order of Pursuits
soldier and military organizer in the "Volat" battalion with an additional military award and an award for courage,
director of "Belarusian House" in Warsaw
Ales Zarambyuk
,
deputy commander of the regiment named after Kastus Kalinowski
Vadim Kabanchuk
(with an additional military award),
Karolina Matskevich
, curator of the book collection of the Skaryna Library in London
,
the commander of the regiment named after Kastus Kalinowski,
Denis Prokharov
(with additional military honors),
Syarhei Pyatkevich,
a member of the Association of Belarusians of Great Britain and one of the heads of the Belarusian Charitable Foundation
,
Participant of the national movement of the early 1980s and uncensored press, journalist
Alena Radkevich
,
co-chairman of the solidarity movement "Together"
Alena Tolstay
,
as well as British scientist
Alan Flowers
and social activist who has done a lot in the field of charity,
doctor
Siarhei Yurchenko
(Czech Republic).
For their contribution to Belarusian culture and education, they were awarded the Medal of the Order of the Pursuit
author of Belarusian language textbooks for grades 1-6, Bialystok teacher
Alina Vavranyuk
,
founder of the Internet library and head of the Bialystok Foundation "Kamunikat.org"
Yaroslav Ivanyuk
and the poet
Andrey Khadanovich
.
By a closed decree, the Chairman of the Council of the BNR awarded the Medal for Combat Merit to three officers and fourteen soldiers of the Kastus Kalinovsky Regiment, one officer and eleven soldiers of the "Volat" battalion, as well as one soldier of a separate airborne assault company "Belarus" as part of one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .
One of the military organizers, previously awarded the Medal of the Order of Pursuit, was awarded an additional military award.