Belarusian Democratic Republic 100th Jubilee Medal
The Belarusian Democratic Republic 100th Jubilee Medal is a medal awarded in 2018 by the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the republic in 1918. The medal has been awarded to more than 180 activists, politicians and researchers in Belarus and abroad.Design
The obverse features the Pahonia, the symbol of the Belarusian Democratic Republic, and the inscription . The reverse features the inscription with oak branches and the Cross of Saint Euphrosyne. The ribbon is white with a red stripe separated by thin black lines.Recipients
Recipients of the medal include:
- Jury Turonak, historian and activist of the Belarusian minority in Poland
- Zianon Pazniak, politician, one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front and nominee for President of Belarus in the 1994 election
- Natalya Radina, journalist
- Uładzimir Arłou, writer and historian
- Stefan Eriksson, former Swedish ambassador to Belarus
- Michael Kozak, former US Ambassador to Belarus
- Daniel V. Speckhard, former US Ambassador to Belarus
- George A. Krol, former US Ambassador to Belarus
- Svetlana Alexievich, writer and Nobel Prize laureate
- Stanislau Shushkevich, first post-Soviet head of state of independent Belarus
