麻豆社

Alex Kirby is pleasantly surprised by Belarus. He finds it's not the bleak, run-down or oppressed place he had imagined. Restaurants have to turn people away, and the opera is thronged with the well-dressed. The capital Minsk is positively gleaming. Challenging official thinking still risky, but journalism students at the university are able to give the annual Golden Duck of Belarus award - an apparently oversized bath toy fixed to a square box - given by the students to the speaker they think made the most outrageous and improbable claim in a lecture.

Photo of "Golden Ducks of Belarus" awards by Alex Kirby, 麻豆社