br23 blog - minsk, belarus

I have discovered Wikipedia more than two and a half years ago. Since then I’ve used it regularly as a quick reference, and I also used to contribute to it a little bit, mostly to the articles about Belarus. Since then several Russian contributors (who openly express pro-imperial, pro-Soviet, anti-Western, anti-Belarusian and anti-Ukrainian political views) […]

Alexander Milinkevich was arrested today in the morning at the office of an independent newspaper and, about two hours ago, Lukashenka’s “justice” system decided to sentence him to a 14-day arrest for organizing an “illegal” Chernobyl protest.
In my opinion, this is the most crucial point after the “elections”. If this arrest of the leader produces […]

1986. I was ten. My dad, a Ph.D. in physics, came home from the applied physics research institute. I think it was 28th or 29th of April. It was early evening, about 5 or 6PM, it was sunny and warm, unusually warm for the season. I was standing next to our TV set (an old […]

• scotsman.com: Time to liquidate Scotland and sell off her assets, says expat historian
“The idea that Scotland might one day ‘be a nation again’ should simply be dropped. We had our chance, when everyone else in Europe had it, in the 19th and 20th centuries. But we calculated that the Union and the Empire were […]

A friend from Belarus who usually doesn’t watch much TV wrote this entry in his blog several days ago (in Belarusian):
I just watched evening news on Russian NTV. Well oh well… Russian TV is quickly catching up with its Belarusian counterpart [in terms of amount of lies and propaganda]. About 3/4 of news were […]

• Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois to Dorothy Nidelman (born Dora Nidelman on October 17, 1917 in New Jersey), a former radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford on November 20, 1906 in New York; died February 10, 1999), an advertising executive and a former actor. Ford’s maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman […]

Spring is back in Minsk. And another weekend is coming. I just wanted to say that October square has not always been a center of political turmoil, democratic protests, police violence, and a place of inauguration of the lonely dictator… It’s also a fun place where punks, hippies, skate-boarders and other young people like to […]

The first photo is a screenshot of Lukashenka’s inauguration from EuroNews. The second photo is an “improved” version published in the main Lukashenka’s newspaper “Sovietskaya Belorussiya”.
The rumours of Lukashenka’s health problems are spreading further and further. The initial sign was an unusually long delay of his inauguration, by at least two weeks and his disappearance […]

TOL reports that certain positive signals are coming in our direction from the “Old Europe” ([1], [2]), but the heart of the Old Europe, Great Britain, confirmed today that it won’t change anything in that regard and will go on ignoring Belarus, as it has been doing before.
Here’s a short summary of RFE/RL Belarus service […]

If we don’t keep fighting, Lukashenka’s regime will go on destroying everything, until nothing is left. This is something we all should understand about this dictatorial regime. Today I received the news the the First Belarusian newspaper “Nasha Niva” is under a serious risk of being closed down.

Department of ideology wants to close it down […]