Entrepreneurs stage protest action in central Minsk
About 400 people have gathered in Kasrtycznickaja Square, Euroradio reports. There are no well-known politicians and activists among them. The people are wandering across the square one by one.
12:58
Mikalai Statkevich has arrived. He has been to the President’s Administration with 10 other people, he said. If everyone had come to the President’s Adminiatrtion, the authorities would have been scared, Stakevich said.
12:40
The police are writing down the passport numbers of all the present. A policemen came up to a Euroradio reporter and asked him to show his passport. He has been ordered to write down the names of everyone in the square, he explained.
12:34
The police are trying to draw up reports against Lyabedzka and the people holding posters. The meeting participants are not letting the policemen approach them and are shouting ‘Shame!’. Police captain and riot police commander Dzmitry Balaba is trying to force his way through the crowd in plain clothes.
12:27
Anatol Lyabedzka has arrived.
12:23
About 200 entrepreneurs are in the square. Entrepreneurs’ leader Ales Makayeu has arrived.
First posters have appeared.
12:12
The first flag has been brought.
