br23 blog - minsk, belarus

In order to bring some order, I’ve deleted some links and added several new ones on the right pane of this blog page. In case you know of any good blogs about Belarus and Eastern Europe in general, please, let me know. Also if you are a fellow-blogger and would like to exchange reciprocal links […]

I’ve heard that Google agreed to self-censor its search results on Chinese Google (google.cn). Although I couldn’t repeat this behaviour in my own browser (google.cn immediately redirects to google.com), some of my friends in Google Talk confirmed that when you search Google Images for “Tiananmen” it only shows nice fountains and buildings on that square. […]

In the last three days there were some pretty good news for our main opposition candidate, Alexander Milinkevich:
1. Council of Europe
Milinkevich was invited to PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) where he delivered a good solid speech to the members of the assembly.
(Milinkevich in French: ) “Can the election be free in […]

A Belarusian girl bathes in icy water at a lake in Minsk, Belarus (January 19, 2006). (© all photos by Reuters/Vasil Fedasenka.)

A woman holds her child as they make their way to get out off the ice cold water of a lake on the eve of Russian Orthodox Epiphany in Minsk, Belarus, late Wednesday, Jan. […]

Belarus Opposition Wants More Focused Support From The EU:
EU must look beyond the routine monitoring of the polls. “I would recommend and I would ask you [that is, the EU countries] to send as many people — even without observer status because that’s not about the observation per se but the support of the people […]

Being an avid tennis fan I’m happy that tennis season finally kicked off, so every night I watch live reports from “down under.” The best match so far was Roger Federer’s battle with Tommy Haas, today, a real pleasure to watch. And before that Federer easily won against Belarus’ Max Mirnyi:
• Regal Roger Rolls Past […]

It’s -15°C in Prague right now, and according to forecasts it’ll drop to -20°C tomorrow. Still, it’s nothing in comparison to Belarus. In Prague, we got just a tail of that cold weather front. In Belarus it was around -25°C and as low as -30°C. On January 19 as a result of low temperatures and […]

I have long ago given up on my paper organizer, and finally I’ve bought two palm PDA’s for myself and my wife. It’s a cute (see photo), simple and cheap model. Unfortunately, it is much cheaper in the U.S. than in Europe. I bought it for about $140 each, and in the States you could […]

23 (imdb entry) is a great movie. It’s a German production, and I decided to watch it on a Saturday evening almost by accident, just because I always look out for my favorite number. And I think I just discovered another dimension to my own internet identity, with some strikiing similarities…
“The movie is based on […]

Thanks to }T{Reme [Q_G] you can watch and locally save the videos from that Euronews interview of our main opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich:
• Transcript and original streaming video on Euronews
• Milinkevich in English (RM, 1.8 Mb)
• Milinkevich in Russian (RM, 1.8 Mb)
• New Year’s greetings in Belarusian (AVI, 2.8 Mb)