A famous human rights activist, a retired second rank captain Valery Schukin will participate in the action “We remember”. The action will take place in Minsk on December 10, the Human Rights Day. Valery Schukin responded to Iryna Krasouskaya and Svyatlana Zavadskaya’s call. They called upon all the democratic forces of the country, and those who are not indifferent to participate. Valery Schukin, who is one of the most famous Belarusian human rights activists, said, “Those people are worth of respect who defend their rights themselves. So to respect yourself it is necessary to go out in the street on Human Rights Day.”

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The Polish Foundation in Support of Democracy in Belarus” will hold a solidarity action in Warsaw on December 10. The action is planned in front of the Foreign Ministry, ul. J.CH. Szucha 23, on 1 pm. As the Foundation representatives informed the Charter’s press center, the objective of the action is to bring EU attention to the missing opposition leaders’ problem in Belarus. According to some other sources, similar actions will take place in other European capitals and cities. The same day the action “We remember” initiated by the missing Anatoly Krasousky’s and Dzmitry Zavadsky’s wives Iryna Krasouskaya and Svyatlana Zavadskaya will be held in Minsk.

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The authorities put more pressure on the National Humanities Lyceum named after Yakub Kolas students’ parents. Policemen come to their apartments and threaten them with legal sanctions if their children do not study in regular schools. The students’ parents can be fined for supposedly bad bringing up. The policemen said that they will pass the filled in protocols to the administrative commissions and regional executive committees.

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“The absolute rule set in Belarus in past years can end in a bad way,” said a “Yabloko” candidate Vladimir Lukin at a press conference on Thursday. As “Rosbalt” correspondent says, according to the candidate’s words, he is for authority in Belarus “democratic not only on the surface, but also inside”. “The authorities may be changed like in Georgia there, but another, more tragic scenario is also possible.”

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Anti-polish graffiti in Hrodna are becoming habitual, as the chief editor of “Magazin Polski” Eugeniush Skrabotsky said in his interview to Belapan.

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Visit of Iranian president Seyyed Mohhamad Khatami to Belarus to boost political and economic cooperation of two countries. The Iranian side confirms its interest in organizing a visit of president of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohhamad Khatami to Belarus in the near future.

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ZUBR activists together with activists of other opposition organizations carried out an action to support activists of “Young front” who had been arrested on 24 of November. The action was carried out near entrance to Okrestina Prison. 25 people with candles have been staying there for about an hour. In that way “Zubr” activists expressed their solidarity with patriots of Belarus.

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BELGRADE, Serbia and Montenegro--Serbian television viewers were cheerfully amused during the Georgian crisis that led to President Eduard Shevardnadze’s overthrow. The breaking-news footage from Tbilisi, beamed into their living-room TVs, showed symbols and political iconography they had grown deeply familiar with. The posters of a clenched fist, plastered everywhere, were identical to those used by Serbia’s Otpor! (Resistance!) movement in 2000, during the campaign to oust Slobodan Milosevic. Even the slogans on billboards were familiar: “Gotov je!” (“He’s finished”), the Latin-script letters proclaimed--in Serbian. Clearly, young Georgian protesters didn`t have time to translate the propaganda material they’d borrowed from their Serbian friends. And yes: Otpor! militants have confirmed that they were consulted by Georgian opposition--and that they provided advice, material, and help.

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