http://belarus.blogsome.com Media, blogs and my personal thoughts about Belarus' elections in 2006 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:10:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Krasnoyarsk, Russia, goths and emos are protesting the laws banning piercing, black-pink clothing and hair styles. Last Saturday, about 150 youngsters demanded that the Russian Duma should rather work on more serious things than try to control youth self-expression. I am writing these lines from a predominantly Catholic country, ... http://belarus.blogsome.com/2008/07/21/the-virtue-of-freedom/ As expected, the Belarusian authorities used the terror act as a pretense for further intimidation of the Belarusian opposition. The KGB arrested four members of an organization “Biely Lehijon” (White Legion), which has long been nonexistent. For several years, there were no reports on any activities of the group. Moreover, ... http://belarus.blogsome.com/2008/07/10/the-outcomes-of-the-terror-act-who-gets-nailed/ On July 3, Minsk celebrated the “official” Independence Day. Hundreds of thousands gathered for a late-night concert at a local war memorial. The president himself was there. After midnight, the unheard of happened. A bomb exploded injuring at least 50 people. Strangely, the president, who was not far away, was not ... http://belarus.blogsome.com/2008/07/07/bomb-explosion-in-minsk/ The Irish rejected the Lisbon Treaty. Heck, it is 287 pages long, and many voters have complained that it is difficult to understand. The document was supposed to make the EU function more efficiently and would give the European Union its first full-time president and create a new and powerful ... http://belarus.blogsome.com/2008/06/13/too-difficult-to-understand/ Belarus online media are full of dim prognoses of the upcoming vote on the new media law in the Belarusian Parliament. The changes to the Belarusian media law have been prepared since 2002 and can be voted on as soon as next week. The changes will specifically address what the ... http://belarus.blogsome.com/2008/06/12/are-we-ready-for-guerilla-tactics-online/ Hello fellas! It’s been a very long time since I last posted here, but maybe it’s time to give this blog a new life. Please, let me know what you think. For some reason, I feel nostalgic for the times when I wrote most of my blog entries in English. Now ... http://belarus.blogsome.com/2008/06/11/back-on-track/ Today’s New York Times published a rather grim outlook on the presence of Soviet era’s secret services in the countries of the old Warsaw Pact. The case of Alexander V. Litvinenko, the former K.G.B. agent who was poisoned in London in November, would not seem out of place here, where ... http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/12/12/the-dark-con-of-post-lukashenko-belarus/ The Varsity Online reported: Psiphon, a new anti-censorship tool that promises barrier-free web access to those living with restrictive government censors such as residents of China and Iran, is scheduled to launch on Dec. 1. The Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Relations developed the tool to fight the ... http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/11/28/go-psiphon/ Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka arrived in Tehran late on November 5 for two days of talks with Iranian officials. Belarus’s foreign minister, Serhiy Martynov, says the visit is aimed at bolstering official relations and advancing large-scale economic projects. Read more at RFE\RL. The pictures of this dismal encounter are so hilarious ... http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/11/07/lukashenka-meets-ahmadinejad/ Three months ago, Zmicier Dashkevich and I were luckily strolling along the streets of Washington, DC, and New York City. I remember how we went to a Protestant church in the U.S. national capital, what a nice person he was to talk to, how religious and righteous, kind and intelligent ... http://belarus.blogsome.com/2006/11/01/we-will-win/