6 month agoBelarus: A fire is reported in Kobrin where reports state that the warehouse of the local grain receiving company is on fire. There is no official report available yet
6 month agoPeople shouting "Long live Belarus." in Minsk
Belarus reports a record 1,939 new coronavirus cases in the past day, although official figures are highly unreliable
Lukashenka approved a plan for the use of the regional grouping of forces of Belarus and Russia in case of a large-scale aggression against two countries. The document will be submitted to the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus.
Belarusian-language service of @RFERL, @Svaboda, named Minsk-based Belarusian activist Nina Bahinskaya as the "Person of Freedom 2020".
The joint grouping of troops of Belarus and the Russian Federation is considered as a mechanism to contain aggression against the Union State, the General Staff of Belarus reports.
Lukashenka said that the All-Belarusian People's Assembly should be made a constitutional body and envoyd to it powers that the president would lose
Lukashenka: Belarus and Russianeed to "modernize" the documents on the use of the regional grouping of troops, taking into account the situation at the western borders
Belarus to ban citizens from leaving the country starting 21th December. Official reason: to fight covid19 outbreak
In Belarus, the KGB security service arrested 8 members of an alleged terrorist group reportedly implicated in a series of violent crimes in Hrodna region, including an IED detonation, and an arson attack
6 month agoBelarusian language service of @RFERL, @Svaboda, compiled all the Sunday protest marches in Minsk, Belarus, since August 2020 onto a single map. It shows decentralised protests, making them harder to be counteracted by the police:
@Tsihanouskaya urged the European Union to impose economic sanctions on Belarus as soon as possible
Lukashenka proposed to turn the All Belarusian People's Assembly into a constitutional body, and to transfer some of the presidential authorities to it, in the context of the upcoming constitutional reform
6 month agoIn Minsk, Belarus, people are painting the national white-red-white flag onto the ice on the frozen Svislach River - in defiance to the ongoing repression.
Lukashenka said that he will ok with the ban on attending the Olympics and other events of the International Olympic Committee
6 month ago"We remain committed to our basic demand. Lukashenka must go. Belarus needs new, free, and fair elections alongside with the constitutional reform based on the Constitution of 1994." @Tsihanouskaya tells @melindaharing in today's ACFrontPage conversation
6 month agoThe legal system in Belarus is completely dysfunctional, it is a system of repressions, but it will not last forever, @Tsihanouskaya is telling the Atlantic Council now
The EU is finalizing the third package of sanctions against the Belarusian authorities and will introduce it in the near future, Borrell said.
6 month agoLukashenka: "Immediately make a list of all parasites who are chatting and force them to work. Today a non-working loafer isn't just a protester on the streets, but a future criminal
A court in Minsk sentenced a native of Belarus Natalya Hershe to 2.5 years in a strict regime colony, who lives in Switzerland and has citizenship of this country
6 month agoMinsk, Yakub Kolas square. Security officials block the movement of participants in the march of pensioners
6 month agoA small column of pensioners has already gathered at Yakub Kolas Square. The avenue is closed, and the square itself is surrounded by the transport of security forces
Over 300 protesters were detained in Belarus on Sunday
There are several dozen detainees in Minsk. Those delivered to the Sovetskoye police station are lined up in the courtyard against the wall
Dec 6. #Minsk now: Dozen troops vs one protester on Burdeiny Street. By 3 pm (local time), nearly 30 persons detained across #Belarus, human rights defenders report. Video: #Belsat viewers #FreedomMarch #BelarusProtest
6 month agoArrest in western Minsk
6 month agoRiot police at Shevchenko boulevard in Minsk
Water cannon deployed at Kyivsky Square in Minsk
6 month agoDetention by plain cloth security officials at Sucharava in Minsk
6 month agoOpposition rally at Logoyskiy way in Minsk, already dispersed and several protesters detained
