The KGB chief, Stepan Sukharenko, threatens to send to a death row the most violent participants of the forthcoming events, much feared by the regime. The state has chosen a smart method to avert the revolution – pretty simple, but very efficient – by intimidation. By propagating fear, Sukharenko certainly knows what he is doing. With most of the Milinkevich team managers behind bars, the ones left to be neutralized are eventually the people. So the chosen technique is very straightforward – keep out. It is going to be violent, we will beat crap off of the radicals’ heads. And you beware of terrorist acts, stay at home unless you want to get it.
At the same time, KGB promised that it would not arrest Milinkevich by the 19th. “His case would be investigated, and punishment would depend on severity of the events.”
I also must mention that two of my good acquaintances from Navapolatsk are arrested. Vasil Chramcou is the chairman of Usiaslau Charadziej, a cultural educational center with a vivid history, and Alaksiej Trubkin is a young activist of Belarusian Popular Front, who had already gone through a few arrests during this campaign.
The shocking countdown continues.

P.S.: Some Belarusian cartoonists have created this great Flash game, which might enlighten these gloomy days of waiting, especially if you are following this campaign from abroad.