Don't Call Me Devochka

One year ago, Belarusian women were at the forefront of an unprecedented wave of peaceful pro-democracy protests following a disputed presidential election — but in the months that followed, the Belarusian regime has suppressed nearly every form of opposition activism.

We discuss Belarus' women-led uprising and its aftermath with Katsiaryna Shmatsina, a Rethink.CEE Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and a research fellow at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, and Maryia Rohava, a doctoral research fellow on Belarus and Eurasia at the University of Oslo.

We're not like other girls...we're devochki. In our premiere episode, we introduce ourselves and have a casual, no-frills discussion on some of the topics surrounding Russian womanhood that we hope to explore in this podcast. We're so grateful for your support so far and can't wait to show you what we have in store.