Live reports from Minsk action:

 

Artsyom Sharkou, organizer of Minsk action

Our reporter Lyudmila Shastak.

The cars were driven at a very low speed. Some of the drivers stopped, turned on the alarm signaling and seemed to start repairs according to the road rules.

Euroradio reporter Lyudmila Shastak has informed that the driving inspectorate tried to disperse the action and removed a few cars with the help of evacuators. However, they did not manage to disperse all the participants. A few dozen cars gathered only near October Square.

The people who lined along the avenue were applauding and throwing small notes at the cars. Euroradio asked them if they knew what was going on. The replies impressed us:

 

 

The public transport changed routes because of the traffic jam. Jitneys and ambulances had to drive onto the pavement.

 

 

 

 

Homel participants of “Stop Petrol” gathered not far from the filling station in Yafremava Street. A police bus arrived there almost instantly. Two policemen went out of the yard. One of them was police colonel Anatoli Anatoliyevich Vasilyeu who warned the drivers about responsibility for unauthorized actions.

The column headed for Soviet Street at 6.40 p.m., however, driving inspectors were waiting near the parking lot exit. They made the cars drive in opposite directions and the column managed to gather only in Soviet Street.

The drivers stopped between Victory and Rahachouskaya Streets and opened their hoods. The other drivers passing by were smiling and waving V signs.

Then the column headed further along Soviet Street and organized “a noise attack” with the help of vehicle horns opposite the building of the Regional Executive Committee. About forty cars took part in the action.

 

 

About a dozen cars gathered at the crossroads of Cosmonauts and Masherau Boulevards in Brest. Passers-by supported the action by standing in the pavement and policemen kept pushing cars towards the roadside.

 

 

 

Today’s all-Belarusian action “Stop petrol” has become the first large-scale action initiated by “For Auto”. One of its organizers, Artsyom Sharkou, has informed Euroradio that about a thousand Minsk drivers supported the action: “Drivers claimed that they were a strong force that could solve problems in the fuel market. The action was aimed at presenting information to the government and to the “Belneftehim” concern”.

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