May 18, 2007

Solidarity with Belarus

The 16th of every month is a Day of Solidarity with the victims of political repressions in Belarus

One of the few things we can do to support the people struggling for democracy in Belarus.



The Belarusian community of Moscow usually puts flowers to the monument to Janka Kupała, one of the most important Belarusian poets of the 20th century who died under unclear circumstances in Moscow in 1941. There are versions that his fall from a stairs in the Moskva hotel was inspired by Soviet secret police - just as in 1999 the politicians Viktar Hančar, Jury Zacharanka, Anatol Krasoŭski disappeared [and were obviously killed] and Hienadź Karpienka died of a "heart attack" in the moment when they all were most dangerous to the dictator Lukashenka.

More photos on my Belarusian-Russian blog

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