17:39 Authorities don’t react to desecration of Jewish cemetery

Desecration of old graves ahs become a usual thing at the Jewish cemetery of Krychau, Valer Bysau, Krychau journalist, states.

17:15 Windows broken in BPF office ahead of anniversary

Windows were broken in the office of the Belarusian Popular Front party, marking its 20th anniversary at night October 18/19.

15:36 Andrei Levinau: “Most Belarusians regard militia as punitive agency”

Former Vitsebsk militiaman and former MP candidate Andrei Levinau told in an interview to Radio Svaboda about the difficulties, he had met during 15 years of his work. The last time he was punished by dismissal from the post of deputy chief of a militia department.

13:56 Lukashenka: “Jews are clever nation, and Iranians are no fools”

Alyaksandr Lukashenka finds it possible to build mutually beneficial relations with all countries of the Middle East.

13:11 Russia tightening credit to Belarus due to crisis

Adviser for economic issues in the Russian embassy Andrei Kuznetsov said that the financial crisis would influence the requirements for granting a state credit to Belarus.

12:09 Results of Internet polls: Dictator has nothing to do in Europe

The vast majority of respondents of polls on Chahrter’97 website didn’t support a decision of the European Union on lifting sanctions on Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

11:42 Liquidation of Minsk ghetto is one of the most monstrous crimes of Nazism

A ghetto where about 100,000 Jews from Belarus, Poland, Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium lived, was destroyed in Minsk 65 years ago.

11:17 Alexander Rar: “Lukashenka is Belarusian Yanukovych”

Yesterday a public teleconference with notorious German political analyst, an expert of the German Council on Foreign Policy, a director of Russia and Eurasia centre was held by the Belarusian TV. In fact, the German political analyst acted as a lobbyist of the Belarusian dictator in Europe.

11:08 Franak Vyachorka questioned by FSB in Moscow

Leader of the “Youth of the Belarusian Popular Front” Franak Vyachorka was detained at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport on October 17 in the evening.

11:01 Belarusian “Deputies”: “Russia’s actions in Caucasus were very liberal, it should have acted harsher”

Belarusian “deputies” have voiced support to recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia’s independence.

The decision of the European Union to proceed from the policy of isolation to the policy of the dialogue right after the undemocratic “parliamentary elections” has been evaluated ambiguously by the Belarusian opposition. The position of the European deputies was ambiguous too.

9:17 Journalist Veranika Charkasava was assassinated 4 years ago

October 20 marks 4 years since the assassination of the journalist of Salidarnasts newspaper Veranika Charkasava. The assassin hasn’t been found until now.

8:47 EU may choose not to return trade preferences for Belarus

In November, the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) will return to considering of a “Belarusian issue”. Alyaksandr Yarashuk, chairman of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions, there wasn’t a “substantial breakthrough” in fulfilling the ILO’s recommendations by the Belarusian government.