Aleksandra Bortich

Her parents divorced, when she was 3. Following parents' divorce, she lived with her grandmother in Grodno, Belarus, and then moved to Moscow, Russia, to live with her mother not long prior to starting a school. When she was 10, her mother got remarried. Bortich has close relationship with her stepfather and doesn't like to speak about her relationship with biological father.

When politics tries to dictate to the arts how to exist, this is wrong. People who don't create anything suddenly try to create canons.