18:38 Social March on Minsk streets (Photo)

Belarusians demanded to stop price increase, implement economic reforms, return social privileges. The authorities have organized provocation in response…

17:27 Mikhail Marynich: «Chinese money will be spent on dirty industries»

Chine will give Belarus a loan of USD 500 mln. The corresponding agreement has been signed today in Minsk during a visit of the head of Chinese government Wen Jiabao. This money will be spent on construction the new lines of cement production.

17:16 Detainments at action in memory of Mikhal Vitushka

The “Young Front” activists, who decided to celebrate 100th anniversary of Mikhal Vitushka, one of the leader of Belarusian national liberation movement, were detained in Niasvizh (Minsk area). The young people came out to the street with white-red-white flags and headed for the church. They were detained on their way.

The republican human rights public association “Belarusian Helsinki Committee” (BHC) is searching after victims and witnesses of the fight during the Social March on November 4. the BelaPAN has been informed about that by one of the BHC members Dzmitry Charnykh.

15:16 Film about Belarusian orphan shot in Italy: “Others shouldn’t be forgotten in the name of Maria”

Italian TV channel Sky Vivo has announced that a serial based on the real story of Belarusian orphan Vika Maroz is to be released soon. The 6-episode serial “In the name of Maria” (Vika Maroz is still called Maria in Italy) is based on the story of relations between Vika Maroz and Giusto-Bornacin family.

15:10 Political prisoner Klimau is put to hunger torture

Deputy of the Belarusian Supreme Council 13 collocation Andrei Klimau charged with a political journalistic article is starved in Mazyr high security correctional facility #20.

Organizers of the Social March have summed up the results of the rally that took place on November 4. “The authorities have broken away from bans, but they have proceeded to provocations tactics. To use force against people who offer a dialogue is immoral. Moreover, the regime depends on European economic programs, foreign credits today, and it’s the second reason why the regime has given up such hard line methods of communication with protesters as a paddy wagon and truncheon blows on the head,” told the deputy chairman of the Belarusian Popular Front party Viktar Ivashkevich.

13:54 Chinese delegation is travelling by the underground?

Traffic is blocked on a row of central Minsk streets because of the visit of Chinese PM to Minsk. Some of the underground stations are closed, as, for example, “Yakub Kolas’s Sqaure”. OMON officers do not let people even in pedestrian underground crossing.

13:02 Lukashenka is currying favour with Chinese PM

“The common political aims, grounded on similar vision of the main world problems and ways to solve them, create an additional basis for our relations”, A. Lukashenka said in Minsk at the negotiations with the official delegations of CPR heading by Wen Jiabao, the Premier of the State Council.

12:57 Paval Yuhnevich at large after 22 days of prison

Youth Leader Paval Yuhnevich was released from the special prison facility in Akrestin Street 2 November. He spent there 22 days for the participation in the European March.

12:49 Zmiter Hvedaruk: «There are no fascists in Belarus. But the attempts are made to create such groups»

“Undoubtedly, a fight on the Social March between “fascists” and “anarchists” is a planned provocation. It was the first time when the pro-fascists organizations took part in the opposition action. According to the eye-witnesses, they disappeared after OMON (riot police) had appeared. It couldn’t be like that, if it hadn’t been planned. Yet at the Academy of Sciences they try to organize scuffles”, - Zmiter Hvedaruk, one of the “Young Front” leaders said to Charter’97 press center.

More that 100 people took part in the authorized rally in Minsk from the Palace of Culture of the Worsted Factory (Mayakovski Street) to Loshytski Yar, where mass executions of the innocent people took placed in the period of Stalin’s repressions.

12:21 Participant of Halloween celebration taken to hospital

Valyantsin Sakalouski, who was sentenced to 10 days of arrest on November 2 for having taking part in celebrating Halloween in Minsk, is placed to clinical hospital No.11.

11:30 US Ambassador: such actions help governments hear their people

“Such actions help governments hear their people,” Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the USA to Belarus Karen Stewart who had been watching the opposition’s action “The Social March” told BelaPAN.

10:52 Zmitser Barodka: “Policemen visited my house on November 4 in the morning”

On the eve of the Social March, similarly to any opposition rally, policemen blocked access to Minsk for regional opposition activists. “Policemen in mufti tried to enter my apartment on November 4 in the morning. I didn’t open the doors to them. They were continually standing near my house till 2 p.m., when the Social March ended in Minsk. They asked neighbours about me. I even couldn’t go shopping,” a democratic activist from Barysau Zmitser Barodka told to the Charter97 press-center.

10:43 Viktar Ivashkevich: «Well, where are those radicals?»

Viktar Ivashkevich, deputy head of the Belarusian Popular Front came to Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk at 2 p.m. 4 November. The politician was staying in the center of the square with two flags - European and Belarusian - and asking: “Well, where are those radicals?” Charter’97 press center asked Ivashkevich what his actions meant.

10:02 Valery Ukhnaliou: «Authorities needed a provocation»

The Social March organized by the Belarusian opposition was held in Minsk on Sunday, November 4. The participants of the action protested against the social politics of the state, benefits abolition and employment contract system.

Consideration of a high-profiled case on beating of Zianon Lomats, State Control Committee head, starts in the Supreme Court of Belarus 5 November. The peculiarity of the consideration is that the case is closed to public and the names of the accused people haven’t been said.

9:10 On Shklou colony’s wall graffiti in support of Dashkevich appeared (Photo)

This night in Shklou unknown people painted political graffiti on the walls of the local colony and the neighbouring countries. The inscriptions “Freedom to Dashkevich!” appeared on the walls.