Low is an American indie rock group from Duluth, Minnesota. They created a song about Belarus. Its lyrics are really moving: “To my mouth/Frozen shut/Mother`s son/Paper cut/Belarus”.

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Today young activists have held an action near Kamarouski market in Minsk. The action goes before the European March which is to take place in Minsk on October 14. Young people handed out European flags and offered passers-by to wear blue ribbons if they are supporters of friendly relations of Belarus and the EU.

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An irreparable tragedy could have taken place on August 31, when co-chairmen of the Political Council of the United Democratic Forces Syarhei Kalyakin and Anatol Lyabedzka were on their way from Brest, where the meeting with democratic activists took place.

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3 September the working trip of General Secretary of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Borduzha to Belarus has started. The meetings with the top officials of the Republic of Belarus: Alyaksandr Lukashenka, the secretary of the Security Council and defense minister are to be held.

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Today leaders of the “For Free Development of Entrepreneurship“ movement declared cancellation of the previously announced strike of the markets of Belarus .What are the reasons for such decision?

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A group of opposition activists held a founding conference for an association named Belarusian Christian Democracy (BCD) in Minsk on Saturday, BelaPAN reported.

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A district police department in Homyel has thrown out a complaint filed by opposition activist Andrey Tsyanyuta in connection with his arrest last month. The young man was picked up by police in downtown Homyel on August 9. He was released shortly afterward but had his stuff seized without any explanations and returned only four days later.

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A former chairman of the Supreme Soviet Stanislau Shushkevich repulses allegations of the Belarusian TV that he propagates a sect prohibited in Belarus, The Unification started by Sun Myung Moon. “I state that I have never been a member of any religious sect. I am a Catholic. I believe that Catholic priests behave in our situation like real spiritual leaders should behave,” the politician said in an interview to the Charter’97 press-center.

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Could Russian nuclear missiles soon be returning to the foreign soil of Eastern Europe? That may be Moscow`s response to U.S. plans to deploy anti-missile-defense radars and missile batteries in Poland and the Czech Republic. Russia`s ambassador to Belarus, Aleksandr Surikov, said last week that Russia and Belarus were preparing "a response to Washington" that could include "nuclear facilities" in Russia`s tiny but loyal western neighbor. The last Soviet-era missiles were removed from Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan more than 10 years ago, as part of a U.S.-backed disarmament program created by Sens. Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn. But Russia has changed vastly since those humiliating post-Soviet days, and the Kremlin is now in the mood to arm, not disarm.

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1 September pupils, their parents and teachers of the National State Humanitarian Lyceum after Yakub Kolas closed down by the state authorities in 2003 marked opening of the new academy year at the entrance of their former building at 21 Kirov Street.

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Uladzimir Kazheunikau , author of the news story “To Crow and Nothing More” published in the newspaper of the defense ministry of Belarus “For Motherland Glory” 25 August admitted that the article had been ordered.

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Deputy foreign minister of Belarus Valeri Varantsou is to represent Belarus at the international conference ”Joint Actions- Strengthening of the European Policy of Neighborhood”, which is due 3 September in Brussels, the Interfax was informed at the press-service of the foreign ministry of Belarus.

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On September 2 in the evening representatives of the “Young Front” and “Belarusian Christian Democracy” were arrested during collection of signatures.

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