Thousands of flyers, calling on students not to participate in pre-voting, thus enabling the authorities to rig the results, but rather to come to the ballot on the very day of presidential elections September 9, were scattered today by ZUBR activists in country’s few leading universities. ZUBRs disseminated tons of flyers both inside and outside university buildings.

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Belarusian gay march gathered around 100 people. They marched along the Skarina prospect sidewalks all the way from the state circus to the presidential Administration. Not even one law-enforcer of security service agent showed up near the place of the action. Therefore, the authorities were pleased to have the parade at this time, for all previous efforts to hold it were doomed to failure. One of the high police ranks, whom we noticed a short distance from the strange action, was indignant that they are told to break peaceful opposition’s rallies but had to keep off hands from this one.

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Despite thorough preparations of all numerous meetings, held during the election marathon by the incumbent president Alexander Lukashenko, a funny episode took place in Borisov town of Minsk region. One of the workers who chanced to stand by the president dared ask him a question: “Why don’t you resign? Remember, back in 1994 you promised that if the life doesn’t get any better within next two years you will leave the post?”

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Late at night September 6 the law-enforcers of the Zhelesnodorozhny district of Gomel searched the office of the Gomel ZUBR organization, which has no official registration. After 8p.m. the police by deceit penetrated into the apartment, leased by ZUBRs, and started the raid. A few young people were there at that moment. The search continued well into midnight, after which the cops departed, having taking with them a computer, a printer, a X-machine, around 1 thousand stickers with white-red-white flag and “Pagonya” coat of arms, audiotapes and 12 spray-paints. They also confiscated a lot of T-shirts with slogans “Protect your own!” and “Want to know truth!”, portraying the missing Zakharenko, Gonchar, Krasovsky and Zavadsky. Police didn’t present any search warrant.

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Rechitsa town procuracy opened legal proceedings against a 24-year old UCP activist Natalya Brel. The young lady had been taken into custody immediately after she brought into the Rechitsa territorial commission for elections a present for the head of state. Inside the parcel there was a rope, tied in a loop, a piece of soap, women’s cosmetics and a number of sketches of political content. The lady asked to hand in everything personally to Alexander Lukashenko. The core sense of the action got down to about this: for you, dear president, I can sacrifice the last that I have.

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Representatives of the Justice Ministry and state procuracy informed the member of the board of “Lev Sapega Foundation ltd.” Miroslav Kobasa (also a coordinator of the parallel vote count system) about their intentions to check out the activities of his organization. In reality, though, they are interested in a different thing, namely the lists of observers, nominated by the organization.

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Leadership of some Belarusian universities told the professors that they got to ensure the turnout of all students at the presidential elections. They added that the students must necessarily vote ahead of schedule and for the incumbent. Rector of the Vitebsk state university Rusetsky told the university staffers that the students must be spared Saturday classes and instead be sent to the polling stations.

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Gay-parade, scheduled for today in Minsk, is a provocation, concocted by the Belarusian special services. Its goal is to discredit Belarusian opposition and give Lukashenko the lead at the ballot. Charter’97 press-center learnt that one of the “Lambda” gay-leaders Eduard Tarletsky is a KGB agent. Today’s statement by the gay-parade organizers in support of opposition is a deliberate provocation. Interesting detail – before September 7 none of the announced gay-parades in Minsk had been sanctioned. Today, however, the authorities changed their mind.

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Today at 12 sharp, on the occasion of the 44th anniversary of the 13th Supreme Soviet Vice-Speaker Viktor Gonchar, his friends and colleagues, wives of the political victims and simply the people who care assembled at the president’s residence. The people formed a live line opposite Lukashenko’s residence, raising up portraits of missing Viktor Gonchar, Anatoly Krasovsky, Yuri Zakharenko, Dmitry Zavadsky, deceased under mysterious circumstances Anatoly Maisenya and Gennady Karpenko, political prisoners Andrei Klimov and Valery Schukin. The “Chain of those who care” also attracted mothers of soldiers, who perished in the Belarusian army during peaceful time.

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Data on the parallel vote count program was collected from 5,89% (4th September), 6,35% (5th September) and 5,92% (6th September) of all polling stations of the Republic of Belarus. The constituencies selected equally represent all country’s regions. According to information, which came from the “Independent Observation” initiative over the first three days of preliminary voting 8,4% of voters already cast their ballots.

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September 6 the Youth Front leader Pavel Severinets was summoned to the KGB for interrogation over the grenade blast, which went off May 30 this year on the territory of Russian diplomatic compound.

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Another case of Russian citizens’ interference into the pre-election campaign in Belarus was recorded in Molodechno. September 1, 2001 the “Molodechanskaya Gazeta” published an article “Blue berets are for us”. The content of the article tells that the “Blue Berets” musical orchestra from the Russian Defense Ministry during its Belarusian tours electioneered for Lukashenko. Same paper writes that all expenses on the dwelling of Russian military musicians on the territory of Belarus have been covered by the Belarusian railroad company.

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A new pre-election project appeared at the server “Draniki”:
"Voluntary Informer" .
The concept of the source lies in the merciless struggle for reliable web communication. Or, to be more specific, in analysis and disclosure of disinformation streams spread by KGB officers and their voluntary helpers in Belarusian Internet.

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Elisabeth Schroedter (Greens, Germany), vice president of the delegation of the European Parliament to Belarus will participate in the observation of the Presidential elections in Belarus scheduled for September 9th, 2001. The delegation will arrive on September 7th and stay and work in the hotel Planeta. A first assessment of the elections will be held on Monday, September 10th.

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Members of the board of the Belarusian Association of Journalists met with the first deputy chair of the State Committee for Press Vladimir Glushakov, who’s currently working as acting director of the private press “Magic”, reports BAJ press-center. Heads of the journalistic organization handed over to the statesman the letter with a demand to cease interference into the activity of the non-state media. “Since the moment of your appointment to the post there occurred a few events, which testify to your exercising censorship tools,” – runs the text of the message.

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First Vice-Speaker of the 13th Supreme Soviet of Belarus, chair of the Central Electoral Commission disappeared off the street in Minsk on September 16, 1999. Together with a friend of his, businessman Anatoly Krasovsky Gonchar was returning home that evening. At the place on the Fabrichnaya street, where the two men were kidnapped, they only discovered pieces of car glass and bloodstains of the victims on the asphalt.

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Chair of the political council of the party “The Union of right forces” Boris Nemtsov forwarded yesterday an official telegram to the unique candidate from wide public coalition Vladimir Goncharik, in which he expressed solidarity with the unique candidate’s efforts to unseat Lukashenko.

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Over 60 representative of Belarusian public – famous writers, poets, politicians and relatives of the repressed victims of the regime – addressed with a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum the Belarusian authorities. According to the statement, the officials have only 48 hours to prove their non-involvement in the abductions of opposition figures. Otherwise, there’ll be every ground to consider that the responsibility for the disappearances rests with the current regime.

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Ahead of elections the unique candidate from wide public coalition Vladimir Goncharik addressed Belarusian voters, confirming his intention to fulfill all obligations, that he bound himself with, right after the ballot. “I, Vladimir Goncharik, the unique candidate from wide public coalition, want to tell you, dear voters, the following: I and my team worked out coordinated propositions and reached a range of accords. Accords, which have to consolidate our society and define the future of our country,” – reads the address, which you may see below.

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Children of the repressed Belarusian oppositionists addressed with an open letter the Belarusian youth. Part of the missive is forwarded to the children of Lukashenko, Sheiman, Sivakov and Pavlichenko. “Our parents are well-known Belarusians. They don’t lie nor do they have blood on their hands. We are proud of our parents. How about you? What did you inherit? Hatred of people? But you’re also responsible for the acts of your parents. The children can influence their parents,” – write the children of the disappeared and deceased opposition members to the sons and daughters of implicated state officials.

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High-ranking state officials are so unsure of their patron’s victory that they use every opportunity available to plead with their subordinates to vote for Alexander Lukashenko. Rector of the Belarusian State University Alexander Kozulin, speaking before the students on the occasion of the beginning of the new academic year, has openly called on everyone to cast their votes for the incumbent. No wonder he did, for Lukashenko personally appointed him BSU rector.

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Throughout September 6 in Zhodino schools they launched at full force the preliminary voting campaign. Hundreds of people with morose faces proceeded toward the electoral stations – the schools’ headmasters obliged the teachers to vote beforehand.

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