WhereAreYouBelarus
Из Беларуси депортирован российский журналист
Я приехал в Минск писать статью о репрессиях в Беларуси, но даже не предполагал, что мне так облегчат работу, что в течение нескольких часов я все увижу собственными глазами и почувствую на собственной шкуре», - цитирует журналиста сайт «Хартия-97»….
First day in Moscow…
What a great city. It’s not that i didn’t expect Moscow to be what it is, whatever that is. It really has got something about it that sets it apart from Kiev or Minsk. Maybe it’s the sheer size of the city or the number of Range Rovers parked on zebra crossings and the pavements, but i’m feeling this place.
Had a quick stroll late this afternoon but didn’t pick a good time. I thought Moscovites would work later than 5pm but obviously not. I walked down from the apartment along Tverskaya to Red Square. It’s pretty amazing. St Basil’s Cathedral was the highlight for me.
Unfortunately much of the square was being converted into an open air theatre for a gig which meant Lenin’s mausoleum was slightly out of view. I managed to get a shot of it though through the fencing.
On the way back i spotted this pretty cool car (of sorts) in the car park of the apartment.
Not the typical Land Rover.
Anyway, more to come tomorrow.
A Stab in the Back?
BelarusDigest:
Yesterday Mikalay Khalezin, the head of the Belarus Free Theatre accused Lithuania of handing information about accounts of Belarusian activists and NGOs in Lithuanian banks to the Lukashenka regime. At first it was hard to believe what Khalezin wrote in his blog. But on the next day the Lithuanian Ministry of Justice confirmed it.
According to Belarusian press, having assessed this information from Lithuania, the KGB of Belarus has arrested a well-known human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, a 2006 Nobel Prize nominee. The authorities accused him of ‘concealment of income at a particularly large scale’. Viasna, the largest and most efficient human rights group in Belarus, thought that its bank accounts in Lithuania were outside the reach of the Belarusian regime. They were wrong.
