July 11th, 2008
A week ago, a homemade bomb packed with bolts and screws tore through a crowd of thousands of people who had gathered for the Independence Day concert in the Belarusian capital. Following the blast, police arrested four ex-members of the White Legion, the youth wing of the Belarusian Union of Military Personnel, banned in 1996. To show their support for the former activists, many Belarusian bloggers now exhibit the White Legion's emblem on their userpics. 1 comment · »»
March 30th, 2008
January 29th, 2008
Marginalia watches Ploshcha (”The Square”), a film about the March 2006 mass protests in Minsk - “and watching it is a good way to mark Ceauşescu's birthday and Suharto's death” - and muses on freedom in Latvia and the lack of it in Belarus.
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