Politics

The judge ordered psychiatric evaluation after the political prisoner lay down and tried to cut his veins while in the court cage.

The political prisoner detained for the participation in the Square 2010 protests is standing trial in Minsk today.

Hanna Kanapackaja, opposition United Civil Party's MP, received slightly over $500 as her salary for the month of October 2016.

The press tour of a big group of Russian journalists will end after the conference.

Central Elections Commission chair Lidzia Yarmoshyna does not rule out leaving the post but says the president is to decide.

The campaign's co-leader Andrei Dzmitryeu says the future of Belarus will be decided in the next four years.

The Belarusian and Russian Presidents had a phone conversation on Wednesday afternoon.

Former Prime Minister Sidorski is declining a comment on media reports about his return to a high-ranking post in Minsk.

The trial will begin at Minsk's Moscow District Court at 1030.