"Nobel Aleksiyevich was given for political reasons": in fact there is no
Why did the Swedish Academy choose a Belarusian writer? Photo: Victor Drachev / TASS / Scanpix For the first time after the collapse of the USSR, a writer who writes in Russian was received by the Nobel Prize in literature. However, instead of joy, many experienced disappointment - and began to look for a hidden meaning, mockery and even an attempt to humiliate both Russian literature and the country as a whole (so, however, it has always happened when the Russian writer received the prize).