Homel Court to Try Director for Documentary

The doc­u­men­tary was aired by Bel­sat TV chan­nel that broad­casts from the ter­ri­to­ry of Poland. The Bel­sat web­site indi­cates Bulavin­skaya as the film direc­tor.

«I refused to meet with the dis­trict inspec­tor just on the basis of a text mes­sages, more­over, that he had my name mis­spelled.  On the phone, I referred to Arti­cle 27 of the Con­sti­tu­tion that guar­an­tees cit­i­zens the right not to tes­ti­fy against them­selves or close fam­i­ly mem­bers,» — Maria told BAJ mon­i­tor­ing ser­vice.

She adds, the police has nev­er pros­e­cut­ed any­one for mak­ing a doc­u­men­tary on demo­li­tion of wood­en build­ings in the city. The movie fea­tures Andrei Ski­dan, artist, con­ser­va­tion pro­fes­sion­al and car­pen­ter, who works to save carved dec­o­ra­tion of the wood­en hous­es in the his­toric part of the city that are to be pulled down. The devel­op­ers were to demol­ish the house that is said to be the last home to Iry­na Paske­vich, Princess and patroness of art. Homel activists put a lot of effort into sav­ing the house which is now dis­as­sem­bled and wait­ing for ren­o­va­tion at a new loca­tion in Homel down­town.

The police sent the admin­is­tra­tive report of mis­con­duct to Maria Bulavin­skaya’s home address.