Belarus's Svetlana Alexievich On Receiving Nobel Prize 

Belarusian author and investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich was announced as the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature on October 8. At a press conference in Minsk, she said that her work is an accumulation of many influences, and spoke about her connections to Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian culture. (RFE/RL's Belarusian Service)