16:07 Zbigniew Bujak: «It’s in the Poland’s interests that democracy and freedom come to Belarus»

In Poland early parliamentary elections took place. According to preliminary calculation after 99% votes counted, the Donald Tusk's party Civic Platform is leading with 41.39% of the votes. The ruling now Law and Justice Party has received 32.16% of the votes, the Peasants Party was supported by 8.93% of citizens. Zbigniew Bujak, legendary leader of the underground polish “Solidarność” (Solidarity), elected Seim deputy two times, headed the parliamentary commission on internal affairs and administration, headed the main custom department of Poland, has agreed to comment the results of the parliamentary election to Charter’97 press center.

14:53 Russia ready to defend CIS dictators by all means

President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree “About signing the Agreement on peacekeeping activity of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Press service of Russian State informs.

13:47 Rigoni’s visit is over, repressions are still on

PACE special rapporteur Andrea Rigoni visited Minsk on October 16-19. The politician who is presently working on a report on the situation in Belarus has met with officials and opposition. But during the visit of the special rapporteur the repressions weren’t stopped on the contrary, they grew stronger.

It’s hard to imagine another European country, except for Russia, that would host a prohibited march for joining the EU, 40 organizers of which would be arrested.

The Minsk Area Executive Committee permitted the meeting of memory in the memorial area Kurapaty 28 October. Siarhei Papkou, deputy head of the Conservative Christian Party BPF (Belarusian Popular Front) said to BelaPAN.

12:46 Rene van der Linden: «Lukashenka should apologize before Jews»

“The anti-Semitic remarks of Lukashenka can be on the edge of absurd, but it is not a reason to regard them as acceptable”, - Rene van der Linden, the president of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly declared. “Lukashenka should think over that and apologize for his humiliating words if he seriously wants to become closer to the rest of Europe”, - the PACE President said.

12:30 Yaraslau Ramanchuk: «I don’t say our economy will wreck tomorrow, but in a year…»

The ministry of statistics and analyses has counted that in January – August 459 industrial enterprises in Belarus operated at a loss, it compiles 21.1.% of their total number. Famous economist Jaraslau Ramanchuk thinks there are no less than 50% of the unprofitable enterprises.

Today Viktar Sheiman, the Security Council of Belarus State Secretary, head of the working group on the bilateral cooperation Belarus-UAE begins his official visit to the United Arab Emirates.

10:46 Andrei Sannikov: «After European March every use of police club will hit the authorities on the head»

15 October in Riga the conference Europe at the Crossroads: Agenda from Riga to Bucharest took place. Meaning NATO Summit that took place last year in Riga and NATO Summit that would be held in Bucharest next year. It is a traditional Riga conference, with the main points being security, development of the European integration, Trans-Atlantic cooperation. As a rule, the high-ranked official representatives of Europe and the USA and the heads of the Baltic States take part in the conference. This year President of Estonia H.E. Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former President of Latvia Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga and current Persident Valdis Zatlers took part in the conference. The representatives of the states outside the European Union, in particular, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova also participated. Belarus was represented by Iryna Krasouskaya, head of the foundation “We Remember” and Andrei Sannikov, international coordinator of Charter’97.