Some literary history here.
Daniel Craig and Liev Schriber as Belarusian Partisans
Soviet Partisans in Belarus
Belarusian Ballet
Belarusian Pipe-Player (from here)
Double pipes or "Parnyia dudki"
are also referred in Belarus as "Parniouka", "Parnyaty", "Dvojni", "Dvzajchatki", "Dudki", "Pasvisceli","Hoosli", "Dvajchatyia Hoosli". They are made of two pipes of different length. The upper end of each pipe is plugged by a circular insert, with 1/5 of it cut off - "cork" ("shpoont" or "sapoh"). The space between "cork" and the outside wall of pipe makes a narrow crack - "halasnik" for blowing air. There is an alongate whistle cut in the pipe's wall at it's upper end. The bottom end has three holes: 2 at the front - "perabirki" ("finger runs")for finger playing and one - "klapan" ("valve") - in the back. The bottom outlet holes are tied with rope, the tension of which allows to tune two pipes into harmony. Below is a military song suitable for double pipe:
Some Belorusian Folk Music 
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The median age of poets in the Belarusian section is quite a bit younger than than any of the previous countries' sections. Part of the reason for this is probably due to Valzhyna Mort's superstardom and the necessity of giving her a big chunk of the piernik (http://www.marga.org/food/int/belarus/piernik.html). But, it seems that Belarusians are in the beginnings of a period of Reclaiming Their Culture and this might be why younger poets were chosen.
ReplyDeleteAlso, here is the Poets and Writers interview with Mort: http://www.pw.org/content/poet_valzhyna_mort_american_debut