"I can speak Belarusian, although my brain works in Russian due to circumstances. There is no practice, because our language has been purposefully destroyed since the mid-1990s."
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Nadzeya Astapchuk, Belarusian shot putter, bronze medalist of the 2008 Olympic Games, world and European champion in the TUT.BY comment, June 2020.
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