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Belarus’ protest at Prague’s Wenceslas Square (near Mustek) and in front of […]

Last week I was invited to a workshop in Ukraine, to teach a two-day class about internet, blogging, web publishing and CMS systems to a small class of Belarusian NGO activists. This sounded like a great opportunity! I would’ve loved to share whatever knowledge I have about WWW publishing with my fellow countrymen, and even […]

As we were enjoying the weekend in the beautiful Czech countryside, somewhere near to us a famous Belarusan Olympic medalist in aerials was busy getting another world cup victory (in fact, he is our only hope for a medal in Torino):
Špindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic — Dmitri Dashinski of Belarus earned his third victory of the […]

Two Czech senators Karel Schwarzenberg and Jaromir Stetina were denied entry visas to Belarus where they planned to meet representatives of the political opposition and, specifically, united opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich. Belarus embassy in Prague declined to comment.
So far, only Belarusian svaboda.org and Czech Ceske Noviny reported about it.

• www.rferl.org/specials/roundtable — a bunch of short videos from the round table “Strengthening The Transition To Democracy in Belarus and Ukraine.” You need to have Real Player installed on your machine in order to be able watch the video.

My wife seems to have a lots of fun lately. Last week, she had a Thanksgiving dinner at a high-tech million-dollar house of a former vice-president of Microsoft (who has been a Microsoft’s VP for 10 years, now retired and moved to Czech Republic). He seemed to like her and even served her coffee personally. […]

• pig_slaughter3.mov (11Mb, QuickTime MOVie)
This weekend we had a great time in a village in Silezia. This is one of the short videos from the pig slaughtering on Saturday morning. The pig was shot about two minutes before, and still had convulsions, and the old guy Honza just slit her throat. The most funny thing, […]

“Former U.S. president Bill Clinton will come to Prague next Friday. One of the initiators of the Prague forum is former Czech President Vaclav Havel. The participants are to include former Irish President Mary Robinson, Canadian former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, French ex-Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, former Brasil President Henrique Cardoso and Open Society Fund […]

Remember I wrote about one month ago that a Czech journalist was shot dead 200 yards away from where we live? In the meantime, police found and arrested Lubina. Then he confessed, and besides, DNA test proved it was his blood on the spot. Several days ago he was brought by the detectives to the […]

My wife got in a traffic jam last night because of that car accident which hapenned just 100 meters from the RFE/RL building. And my colleague became an eye-witness because he left work pretty late, and the accident took place just as he was walking home. It was a Belarusan tourist bus that stopped near […]