The Chinese did not want to speak Russian in Belarus and "rebelled"

Belarusian public sites publish the story of a student from China, which "rebelled" and achieved exams not in Russian, but in Belarusian.

It tells the "unique story of a Chinese man who fell in love with the Belarusian language." He went to Minsk, but "it turned out that no one speaks it there."

"29-year-old Chinese Xu Bailong has been fond of Belarus since childhood and even learned the Belarusian language on his own. In 2019, he came to Minsk for an exchange at BSU, where he was faced with the fact that Belarusian is almost not taught there — he was sent to Russian philology. Xu "rebelled" — he passed assignments and exams in Belarusian, achieved additional classes and eventually defended his master's thesis in Belarusian. In Belarus, Xu constantly spoke Belarusian at home and at school, but often met with surprise, misunderstanding and even laughter," the publication says.