News on 4.10.2011

4.10.2011

“Mass inaction” banned in Belarus 263

16:46, — Politics

The members of the “house of representatives” adopted amendments to the Law on mass events at two readings on October 3.

Friendly service from dictator to dictator 54

15:36, — Politics

Ahmadinejad tries to save Lukashenka’s regime from bankruptcy.

Abstainers’s jogging called unauthorized action 34

15:25, — society

Police banned the initiative group “Temperance is easy!” to do weekly jogging in Gorky Park in Minsk on October 2.

Young Front activist Andrei Tsyanyuta detained in Homel 6

14:45, — Politics

An activist of the youth organization Young Front, Andrei Tsyanyuta, was detained in Homel on October 4.

First arrests for People’s Assembly in Brest 3

11:41, — Politics

Lyavonty Chypurnykh, the deputy chair of the Brest city department of left party Fair World, was detained in the evening of October 3.

Zmitser Dashkevich: I feel these 9 months were like 9 years in salt mines 57

11:28, — Politics

The political prisoner needs his knee to be operated.

Greatly changed Chavez met with Sheiman (Photo) 46

11:11, — Politics

The previous night a representative Belarusian delegation returned to Minsk from Caracas.

Leanid Zaika: Giving IMF loan to Belarus is a crime 49

10:26, — Economics

A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) starts its work in Belarus today.

Belarus is not sexy 119

10:15, Natallya Kalyada — Politics

“Belarus is not sexy,” said my friend, trying to explain Western diplomats their apathy towards Belarus.

Picketers on Freedom Square fined 11

9:19, — Politics

The women were threatened that they would be sent to a detention facility for the night and share cells with homeless people, which would make them more cooperative.