Word: belarus
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...opposition leaders, activists and staffers detained. "The Opposition has been beheaded," Milinkevich said. For his part, Lukashenko announced that "the revolution that was so much talked about failed," and dismissed any talk of economic sanctions as empty threats that would be too costly for European nations that trade with Belarus (which exports potash fertilizers, chemical fibers and crude oil products...
...that popped up in Minsk's downtown Oktyabrskaya Square on Monday night looked the next bright morning like merry little stalls offering hot tea and cakes to those enjoying the square's small outdoor skating rink. But the tents were covered with the national white and red colors of Belarus, frowned upon since President Alexander Lukashenko officially reintroduced the Soviet-era symbols back in 1995, and the 1000 or so people standing vigil around the tents didn't look like they were enjoying a day out with the family. Having spent a freezing night in the square, exhausted by sporadic...
...with opposition candidates Alexander Milinkevich and Alexander Kozulin, more people slipped through the police lines, bringing the number of protesters back up to around 7,000. Most importantly, they vowed to heed Milinkevich's call to stay through Saturday - which happens to be Liberty Day, the anniversary of the Belarus People's Republic, an independent state, proclaimed in March 1918 and crushed by the Bolsheviks - when the opposition now plans another mass protest rally. "This regime understands only the language of the street," summed up Milinkevich, a mild-mannered scientist-turned politician, who has demanded new elections...
...With an upcoming G-8 summit of Western leaders scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg, anger in Belarus is only beginning to build-not just against Lukashenko, and Putin, too, but also towards the West's lip service to freedom and democratic values. "Does it make any sense to have been carrying the now three-year-long bloody war in the Middle East for the sake of freedom and democracy-and let Putin and his proxy Lukashenko stifle these values right out here in Europe in the meantime? " asks Andrei Sannikov, International Coordinator for Chapter 97, Belarus' respected human...
...Putin's hospitality is understandable; after all, Russia does not have many friends. Those still left, like Belarus, or those now coming back after a long estrangement, like Uzbekistan, are ones who share Putin's views on how to deal with terror closer to home. Yesterday, the Uzbek authorities officially confirmed that a month ago they clamped a seven-year jail sentence on the lawyer and human rights activist Saidjahon Zainabitdinov. His official crimes were conspiring with terrorists and defaming the state. But Human Rights Watch and others believe that his real offense was telling the world - including...