br23 blog - minsk, belarus

I don’t know much about German journalism, but today I had one opportunity to witness how “fast” and “efficient” their work is. Our main opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich met with Bundeskanzler Angela Merkel today. The meeting ended at about 5PM. It’s already past 9PM, but there is not a single news item, and nor there’s […]

In the last two days there were lots of news about our main opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich everywhere (”Guardian”, “New York Times”, “EU Observer”, “Voice of America”, RFE/RL, CBS News just to name a few), so you probably heard that he’s in Brussels, meeting quite a few top EU officials, including the top official — […]

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 […]

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 […]

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)

Invited by the French government, our main opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich visited Paris and met with the French Minister of foreign affairs. During the visit he gave a few interviews, including a TV interview for Euronews. Right now on their website there’s a big banner on the very top of the front page, advertising the […]

In the last several days three giants of the newspaper media world New York Times (1), International Herald Tribune (2) and Time ran stories about Alexander Milinkevich, a united opposition candidate for the upcoming presidential elections, our potential Anti-Lukashenka. Not bad.
P.S. Wikipedia already has a nice article about him: Alaksandar Milinkievič (as well as articles […]