Anton Bendarjevskiy was born in 1985 in the capital of Belarus, Minsk. He grew up in a country which is now called Europe's last dictatorship. With his parents he had to leave the country in 1995, forced by Lukashenko's dictatorship. They found their new home in Hungary. A ten year old boy quickly mastered the Hungarian language, and finally graduated from the University of Pécs in the Arts Faculty of Communication & Media Studies and the History department.Starting from his childhood Anton dreamed to be a journalist, initially wrote poetry and prose, and started his own blog. In 2009 he joined the Hungarian foreign policy news portal, Kitekintő, in which he is still a permanent member leading the post-Soviet column. In Kitekinto.hu he writes articles mainly about Russia, Belarus and Ukraine and analyzes the events in the region.Bendarzsevszkij Anton is currently studying on a PhD program in history. As a journalist, his main aim is to report on what is happening now in the post-Soviet countries, including Belarus. As a researcher, his main aim is to find answers to "why". In his research and publications that appear regularly he writes about the democratic processes in Belarus in the turn of 80's and 90's, the Kuropati tragedy, the Chernobyl disaster and it's aspects in Belarus, and the history of the Bolshevik press.In his latest project Anton Bendarjevskiy in April 2011 traveled to the Chernobyl Zone with his friend and colleague Mark Maczelka. After the trip series of articles on the topic were published on Kitekintő, and after many months of hard work by the end of the 2011 new documentary was created: Chernobyl's Heritage: the Zone.
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