An interesting article was published on one of Zianon Pazniak’s websites:

These days Belarusians in NY fail to get connected with Belarusian writers on the phone. An automated system blurts in Russian “The line is malfunctioned,” “Call back later.”
And this goes on day in, day out. The first who lost patience was Valancina Jakimovic. She phoned MasterCall company, via which she tried to call Michas Skobla. In response to her inquiry, she was told that the company had nothing to do with it. Because of the political approaches in Belarus, this phone number and a range of others had been blocked for communication by the Belarusian part.

The full article is available in Belarusian here.

NPR (National Public Radio) aired today a report on Belarus’ current political situation. One of the interviewees was a current Muskie fellow and an editor of Student Thought, Iryna Vidanava. You can listen to the piece here.