16:59 The youth organises actions in support of European Belarus every day (Photo)

Actions in support of European choice of the Belarusian people and demanding to release political prisoners are held in Minsk and other Belarusians cities every day.

16:20 Evgenia Vojko: “Putin will speed up process of uniting Russia and Belarus”

Vladimir Putin’s appointment to the position of the head of the Council of ministers of the “union state” can lead to losing independence by Belarus.

15:28 Alyaksandr Yarashuk: ILO can call upon all countries to break off relations with Belarus

The 97th Session of the International Labour Conference,opens in Geneva. At the session the ILO Norms and Standards Committee Committee the problem of Belarus is to be considered.

14:45 Parties to run in “elections” with this message

Leaders of oppositional political parties prepared a message to Belarusian citizens. Candidates for deputies will run in the parliamentary “elections” with this message.

13:25 Zeltser’s case: forged documents at first, drugs now?

The Committee of State Security of Belarus (KGB) instituted a criminal case on drug trafficking against US citizen Emanuel Zeltser.

11:07 Radio Racyja Journalists not Accredited for Work in Belarus

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus denied accreditation to Radio Racyja journalist Alyaksei Minchonak. It was the first time journalists of the radio addressed for accreditation to work in Belarus, and a denial was received at once.

10:34 Paddy Wagon for the Innocents

We like to take a walk in Gorky Park with my one-tear-old son Daniil. And Lukashenka hates it when we walk in the park. Nothing personal, however: his attitude to other mothers with toddlers is the same. Ten days ago, on Saturday, the park was filled with children and parents. Merry-go-rounds, candy floss, little cars for rent, sandpits and slides are simple pleasures of our children, who do not know still where they live, a journalist Iryna Khalip writes.

10:30 Mikola Statkevich: Sentences on trial of 14 are new form of “khimia”

Mikola Statkevich, head of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Narodnaya Hramada), member of the organising committee of the civil campaign “European Belarus,” said the sentences to participants of the trial of 14 were a new form of “khimia” (open type penalty institution).

10:18 April statistics – failure of “Belarusian economic miracle”?

The convening of the session of the Council of Ministers, where results of work for four months of 2008 were discussed, wasn’t so necessary at first sight. What did make the government analyse the statistics as a mater of urgency?

10:08 Did Minsk city executive committee apologise to Svyatlana Zavadskaya?

Svyatlana Zavadskaya, the widow of the forcibly kidnapped ORT TV cameraman, went to law against Mikhail Titsenkou, deputy head of the Minsk city executive committee.