New Zubr Graffiti In Baranavichy As Response to Pressure :: Charter'97 :: News

The meeting of the Baranavichy branch of the BRYU, who joined the oppositional Zubr movement on Tuesday, took part yesterday in the evening in the college of the light industry. In the result of the meeting, where the quorum was not secured, by the way, Nikita Sasim, the head of the branch, was dismissed from his position. In the meantime, dozens of new graffitis are appearing on the houses and fences in Baranavichy. In this way Zubr movement response to the attempts of the authorities to bully the young people and make them silent.

The first secretary of ‘Lukomol’ Mikhail Orda went into hysterics. He had to go to Baranavichy to settle situation on the spot. In the interview to Radio Svaboda Orda in the worst traditions of the Soviet time tried to deny the scandalous thing that took place in Baranavichy:

- It is a lie. All these peanut politicians – belonging to Chater, Zubrs and beavers – they proved once again that they are dealing with nothing but lies. They simulate the imaginary things that are not happening in reality. They cheat teenagers; they have put all this disinformation at their sites, all this absolute provocation they have planned.

Zubr representatives name the decision of the students a courageous deed and hope that other students from other educational institutions would follow them.

Zubr activists continue to receive words of support from Belarusian citizens and friends from abroad. Among them are representatives of the Serbian movement Otpor!, Ukrainian organizations, young people from many Belarusian towns and cities, Belarusians from different countries of the world.

You can read words of support and express your solidarity HERE:

Web-site of the youth movement “ZUBR”.