Politics

The prominent pro-independence blogger walks free after receiving a sentence - 1 year and 9 months of restricted freedom.
The first thing Hanna Kanapackaja did in her new office was to remove the president's portrait from the wall.
A college official describes the meeting between a student and a KGB agent as 'educational preventive conversation.'
Opposition politician Pavel Sevyarynets unofficially reports the blogger faces a term in jail not a suspended sentence.
Belarus deputy FM and EU envoy to Belarus met on October 24 in Minsk to discuss interaction in international organizations.
The Belarus leader met with Poland's DPM Mateusz Morawiecki in Minsk and stressed the need to advance trade with Warsaw.
Belarusian diplomats maintain the lifting of sanctions would boost Belarus-US relations.
The United States extend the suspension of sanctions against Belarusian enterprises amid further improvement of relations.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will arrive in Minsk to discuss a draft of the new Eurasian Economic Union's Customs Code.