Opposition

They gathered near the monument to Maksim Bahdanovič on the classic poet’s 125th birthday anniversary in central Minsk.

The Belarusian Social Democratic Party 'Hramada' is set to stop operations due to financial constraints.

Over 100 people gathered for an unauthorized rally in the Upper Town on the occasion of 20 years since the 1996 referendum.

The oppositionists are planning to organize the action in Minsk on November 24.

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

Other events have been planned instead, official explained.

The action participants were holding portraits of the politicians who had disappeared in 1999-2000.

Opposition activists planned to hold an action to commemorate the victims of the Soviet rule.

The youth pressure group Alternativa staged a Halloween themed flash mob in central Minsk against the Russian TV propaganda.