16:24 Die Tageszeitung: “Europe’s policy push despots to human traffic”

The European Union has helped two cruel despots. It has become a black day for Europe, German Die Tageszeitung writes.

15:04 Winners of chemistry competitions summoned to KGB

As the Charter’97 press-centre has found out, in connection with the blast in Minsk on the official Independence Day, winners of school competitions in chemistry are being summoned to the KGB. Senior students and recent school-leavers are all interrogated, fingerprinted, and their saliva is taken for a test.

14:44 Mikola Statkevich: “Will West draw Belarus over from Russia? A strange and naive hope!”

According to Mikola Statkevich, head of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Narodnaya Hramada), suspending of visa bans on most officials and Alyaksandr Lukashenka “doesn’t meet morality”.

14:22 Viktar Ivashkevich: “Young people should undertake initiative”

On November 2 a rally dedicated to Dzyady will take place. The deputy chairman of the Belarusian Popular Front Viktar Ivashkevich tells about preparation to the rally:

13:10 Martynau didn’t even remember human rights in Luxemburg

Belarusian foreign minister Syarhei Martynau spoke about economy and ecology during a summit in Luxemburg, and didn’t say a single word about human right and freedom of media.

12:48 Leanid Zaika: “This government can in two days”

Despite of triumphant reports about the state of Belarusian economy, independent analysts think that our country is just coming into pre-critical state.

11:49 World press: “It is not clear what for EU rewards Lukashenka”

Leading newspapers of the world have written about the decision of the European Union to lift visa sanctions against Belarusian dictator Lukashenka and his officials.

10:32 Belposhta refused “Nasha Niva” weekly again

Belposhta post company refused to include national independent “Nasha Niva” weekly into a subscription catalogue for next year. The administration of the company traditionally explained its unwillingness to cooperate with the edition by “economic unprofitability”.

9:00 Kaczynski: First there must be guarantees of real changes, and only then concessions

To the mind of Polish president Lech Kaczynski, the mission of the Polish Foreign Ministry Radoslaw Sikorski to Belarus started with an embarrassment.

8:52 Javier Solana sending EU mission to Belarus (updated)

The European Union will send a mission to Belarus in the nearest time “for developing of political and economic relations”.

“Actions of the European Union have precise definition and analogies in the history. This is called appeasement of dictator. Europe behaved in such a way towards Hitler in 1930ies, and later towards other dictators in Africa, Latin America, and Central Asia,” Andrei Sannikov, coordinator of the civil campaign “European Belarus”, said.