[2][3] The first issue of the journal started with an introduction by Oxford professor Robert Auty about "a little-known East European people and its contribution to civilisation"[4] and included articles by Alexander Nadson, Guy Picarda, Leo Haroška and Vera Rich as well as a book review and a chronicle of main events related to Belarus and the Belarusian communities abroad.

The editors of the journal deliberately avoided coverage of current affairs - to ensure that it focused on academic studies without a political context.

That periodical, regarded as having a significant information value, albeit inferior to its predecessor from an academic perspective, was published for approximately 10 years until Guy Picarda's death.

[3][11] Unlike the older version, the renewed journal has a wider coverage of academic subjects, does not avoid current affairs and features articles on social and political topics.

Most of the contributors to the journal are Belarusian, British and German academics followed by authors from Poland, Czech Republic, Sweden, Canada, the United States, Hungary and Russia.