15:15 Lech Walesa opened Freedom Gate for Belarus

Lech Walesa, the Nobel Prize nominee and former Polish president, unveiled the Freedom Gate on the Belarusian-Polish border.

14:30 Vopli Vidopliassova performed under white-red-white flags (Photo)

Oleh Skrypka spoke Belarusian and unfurled a national Belarusian white-red-white flag on the second day of Be Free Belarusian rock festival in Chernigov.

12:26 Lukashenka left for Sochi unexpectedly

The Belarusian ruler has already arrived to the resort, though the meeting with the Russian president is scheduled only for the second half of the week.

The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will hold military exercises on using the Collective Rapid Response Forces (CRRF) from August 26 till October 19. Troops will arrive in Belarus in September.

11:27 NTV journalist Aleksey Malkov: “Belarusian secret services threatened me openly”

The deported Russian journalist says people in mufti questioned him in a neglected sanatorium in the forest.

9:28 Poster “Communism=Fascism” considered insanitariness

Administrative reports were drawn up against “Young Front” activists Mikalai Dzyamidzenka and Hanna Bunko.