Composer Sergej Newski about the project:

“Gleb Kovalski, the Belarusian artist and activist, describes Lukashenka’s Belarus as a total installation, an oversized art project in which every resident of Belarus was allowed and forced to participate, and for which some even had to sacrifice their lives. In his speech, the artist expressed his gratitude to all those who made the project possible: from Yeltsin and Putin to Navalny and Lukashenko himself. Now, according to Kovalski, is the time to finish this project. In our video we used samples from the 2015 promotional film Belarus: A Country for Life, shot by the Belarusian Ministry of Information, as well as fragments from what I personally consider the most violent manifestation of totalitarian horror: the performances of the national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest in Belarus from 2017 to 2019. 54 The music also uses prepared fragments of the Belarusian songs written for the ESC, as well as (at the beginning and at the end) my canon for nine solo strings from 2021”.