Archive for April, 2006
Took these Besarabka pictures while waiting for a friend yesterday:
These are the things I take for granted, never really notice – because, well, this is Besarabka, and the statue of Lenin at Bulvar Shevchenka, and I can walk with my eyes closed here – and I do walk like this most of the time: the [...]
Took these Besarabka pictures while waiting for a friend yesterday:
These are the things I take for granted, never really notice – because, well, this is Besarabka, and the statue of Lenin at Bulvar Shevchenka, and I can walk with my eyes closed here – and I do walk like this most of the time: the [...]
You’d think that after 20 years thoughts about Chernobyl would be nothing but routine and memories would fade, but no, there’re still things that take me by surprise.
I was literally shaking when I first looked through that girl’s semi-fake site – kiddofspeed.com – in spring 2004. And I froze in my steps yesterday during [...]
You’d think that after 20 years thoughts about Chernobyl would be nothing but routine and memories would fade, but no, there’re still things that take me by surprise.
I was literally shaking when I first looked through that girl’s semi-fake site – kiddofspeed.com – in spring 2004. And I froze in my steps yesterday during [...]
According to Reuters, Milinkevich has been sentenced to 15 days in jail “for organizing a major rally in Minsk deemed unlawful.”
Milinkevich denounced the sentence as blatantly political.
“This is a political action, political sentence,” Milinkevich said after the judge read the sentence in court. “Leaders of leading political parties are behind bars.”
According to Reuters, Milinkevich has been sentenced to 15 days in jail “for organizing a major rally in Minsk deemed unlawful.”
Milinkevich denounced the sentence as blatantly political.
“This is a political action, political sentence,” Milinkevich said after the judge read the sentence in court. “Leaders of leading political parties are behind bars.”
In the morning, when I was taking Marta to the bathroom to change, mama said this, quite unexpectedly:
“You know, she’s now the age I was when the war began and the Germans came.”
Marta will be turning 5 months on May 1. My mama’s birthday is January 31, 1941.
In the morning, when I was taking Marta to the bathroom to change, mama said this, quite unexpectedly:
“You know, she’s now the age I was when the war began and the Germans came.”
Marta will be turning 5 months on May 1. My mama’s birthday is January 31, 1941.
Gazeta.ru reports (in Russian) that opposition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich has just been detained in Minsk.
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Below are three of my most recent Belarus items on Global Voices:
LJ users andrews_kovas and eugene_grabkin post their photo reports from Charnobylski Shlyakh, a protest rally that took place in Minsk yesterday.
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Iryna of TOL’s Belarus Blog writes about more arrests [...]
Gazeta.ru reports (in Russian) that opposition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich has just been detained in Minsk.
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Below are three of my most recent Belarus items on Global Voices:
LJ users andrews_kovas and eugene_grabkin post their photo reports from Charnobylski Shlyakh, a protest rally that took place in Minsk yesterday.
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Iryna of TOL’s Belarus Blog writes about more arrests [...]
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