On 9 September 2020, Alexievich alerted the press that "men in black masks" were trying to enter her apartment in central Minsk.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peace-keeping' mission, the dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins.Reality has always attracted me like a magnet, it tortured and hypnotized me, I wanted to capture it on paper.

In 1972 she graduated from Belarusian State University and became a correspondent for the literary magazine Nyoman in Minsk (1976).Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own nonfiction genre, which gathers a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Most of the Soviet journalists who did stuck to the safe line that the Soviet Union was building socialism in a grateful, backward land.