Volha Chamadanava

The security agencies are taking all the necessary measures to ensure public safety, since lots of people are arriving in Minsk in the run-up to the Belarusian People’s Congress, the press service of the Belarusian Interior Ministry reports.

Now he also has to pay 5,000 rubles in compensation.

On Friday morning, a 35-year-old Minsker set himself on fire in Independence Square. Although the man has survived, he is now unconscious after receiving burns covering 50% of the body’s surface area, the Belarusian Health Ministry reports.

When Sunday’s Unity March was coming to its end, brutal detentions and beatings started in downtown Minsk. Numerous videos of masked plainclothed people with clubs and truncheons in their hands hunting for peaceful protesters have gone viral on the Internet.

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