December 21, 2o08, the Central Committee of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) met for its regular sitting. The honorable chairman of the party Alaksandr Kazulin held a speech at the gathering. The announcement he made might have sounded somewhat disheartening to some party members, others greeted this as good news. Kazulin said that he was canceling his membership in the Social Democratic Party and was planning to begin regional trips across the country (I guess similar to what Milinkevich had been doing over the past couple of years.

Interestingly, Alaksei Karol and Uladzimir Nisciuk also said they would be leaving the party. If it is not another indication of the demise in the Belarusian party politics, I don’t know what is.