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Law enforcement officers of Belarus told about the injuries sustained during clashes with protesters in the country. Video with their participation published on the YouTube channel of the Ministry of interior of Belarus.
Employee of the Minsk police Department said that he was in the hospital once during one of the unauthorized actions of the security forces was attacked.
Two of the Central channel in the Sunday news showed coverage of protests in Minsk.
First of the protests reported by the ONT TV channel in six-hour release. It began with information about day of action in support of the President of Republic of Alexander Lukashenko, about half was occupied cutting a video with quotes from the speech of the President. About protesters gathered near the Stela Minsk - hero city, told me little more than a minute. One of the participants told the reporter that she supports the freedom of choice, which people cannot be deprived of. The news was also short, not more than a quarter of an hour.
Protest at the detention center-1 in Minsk, the participants of which demanded the release of political prisoners, no arrests were made, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
Earlier, several dozen protesters gathered outside of the detention center-1 in Minsk to demand from authorities to release political prisoners, including ex-banker Victor Babariko who applied for the post of President of Belarus, blogger Sergei Tikhanovski, whose wife believes the opposition is elected at the last August 9 election, the President, and the well-known Belarusian oppositionist Nikolay Statkevich.
Participants of the protest action in Central Minsk in Independence square went to different districts, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
Some of the protesters still in Independence Avenue, where walks on the sidewalks with flags. The rest went to surrounding areas.
The former candidate for President of Belarus Andrei Dmitriev said that the opposition "not interested in the bows" of President Alexander Lukashenko.
"Don't accept the apology (the interior Minister of Belarus Yuri) Karaev. We don't need the explanation (of the speaker of the upper chamber of Parliament Natalia) Kochanova. Not interested in bows and promises of Lukashenka. That time is gone," he wrote in his Telegram channel, commenting on the meeting of Lukashenko, which was held earlier in Minsk.
The rally of opposition supporters took place on Sunday in Minsk without incidents and arrests, told RIA Novosti press-Secretary of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Belarus Olga Chemodanova.
In Minsk on Sunday was a rally of opponents of the current Belarusian authorities, the event was coordinated with the city authorities. The protesters marched from the Stela "Minsk – hero city" to House the government, they held a protest near the prison where some of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition. According to media reports, the number of participants could exceed 100 thousand people.
Today in Minsk hosted two of the action — in support of Alexander Lukashenko and the opposition rallies. About how events developed in the capital of Belarus — in the material RIA Novosti.
The EU should continue to support peaceful protests in Belarus, said President of France Emmanuel macron.
In Minsk on Sunday was a rally of opponents of the current Belarusian authorities, the event was coordinated with the city authorities. The protesters marched from the Stela "Minsk – hero city" to House the government, they held a protest near the prison where some of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition. According to media reports, the number of participants could exceed 100 thousand people.
Two different rally took place on Sunday in Minsk: one gathered supporters of the incumbent President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, on the other — the opposition. If in the first, according to the interior Ministry, was attended by about 65 thousand people, in the second, according to various estimates, from 100 to 200 thousand. Information about the clashes and mass arrests were reported.
Mass protest actions of the opposition started in Belarus on 9 August, after the presidential elections, which, according to the CEC, Lukashenko won 80.1 percent of the vote. In the first days of the action were suppressed by the security forces against protesters who disagree with the results, used tear gas, water cannons, stun grenades, and rubber bullets. Security forces then stopped to disperse the rallies and enforcement. According to official data, during the first days, more than 6.7 thousand people were arrested. As reported the interior Ministry, during the riots injured hundreds of people, among them more than 120 law enforcement officers, one protester was killed.
Official Telegram channel in Belarus has created an anonymous survey, which asked residents to report for whom they voted in the presidential election.
According to the survey on 03:46 16 August in Moscow, Svetlana Tikhanovski voted 53 per cent of users for the incumbent President, Alexander Lukashenko — two percent.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko instructed the defense Ministry, interior Ministry, KGB and the Prosecutor General's office to prevent the creation of a "caring chain" from Vilnius to Kiev.
As reported by Telegram-Sputnik of Belarus, at a meeting in the heart of the strategic management in the defense Ministry, Lukashenko said that there is information about the desire of the States to the West of Belarus "to build "lancp" from Vilnius to Kiev."
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has ordered to transfer airborne brigade from Vitebsk to Grenoble, told Sputnik of Belarus.
This order was made at a meeting at the Center for strategic management of the Ministry of defense.
The protesters in front of state Belarusian television and radio company in Minsk decided to disband and Sunday to meet again, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
The proposal was made by one of the participants, it was supported by other, chanting "Every day."
Alyaksandr Lukashenka revealed details of telephone conversations with Vladimir Putin, and noted that the Russian leader agreed to assist Belarus when asked about security.
The Belarusian leader reminded of the existence of the agreement between Moscow and Minsk in the framework of the Union state and the CSTO.
The technical staff of the BTRC intends to strike in accordance with law, the interruption of broadcasting is not threatened, told RIA Novosti the head of the Belarusian Union of journalists Andrey Krivosheev.
On Saturday in Minsk hosted a meeting of the collective media holding company that integrates state television, with the press Secretary of the President of Belarus Natalia Eismont and speaker of the upper chamber of Parliament Natalia Kochanova. The staff said that he had raised the issue of the coverage of the protests. Some believe that it was possible to find a compromise, others argue that the authorities expressed the need to hold another meeting on issues of coverage. A few people have said the decision to resign.
Broadcasting in Belarus and financed by the Western funds "ERB" published another video, which, according to the editorial, captures the moment of the death on August 10 in Minsk, participant of the protests of Alexander Tarnovskogo.
Prior to that, "ERB" already released recording where you can be depicted the death of Tarnovskogo, accompanied by a flash, presumably from the shot.
The Ambassador of Belarus to Slovakia Igor leschenya the first of the heads of diplomatic missions of the Republic expressed support of the protesters in the country.
The Ambassador noted that he had learned on one of the images of protesters beaten a classmate of his daughter, who "never were troublemakers".
The head of the CEC of Belarus Lidia Yermoshina has confirmed that Svetlana Tikhanovski, to run for President, has recorded a video message to supporters in her office.
"It's my couch. She wrote this appeal without me," said the Chairman of the electoral Commission in an interview with the Belarusian edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda.
The European Union will propose to the authorities of Belarus support in the dialogue with the opposition and civil society, said in a statement following an emergency meeting of EU foreign Ministers via videoconference.
"The European Union will present to the Belarusian authorities offer support in establishing dialogue between the government and opposition and the society to resolve the crisis", - the document says.
The head of the European Parliament delegation for relations with Belarus Robert Betony and the EP Rapporteur on Belarus Deputy Petras Austrevicius on Friday it was denied entry to the territory of Belarus, told RIA Novosti in the press service of the EP.
"The fourteenth of August the Belarusian authorities denied entry to Belarus to two members of the European Parliament, Polish MEP from the faction of "Progressive Alliance of socialists and Democrats", Chairman of the EP delegation for relations with Belarus Robert Betony, and Lithuanian Deputy from party "new Europe", the permanent Rapporteur of the EP to Belarus Petras Austrevicius," - said in the service.
The results Minsk Moscow earlier detained citizens of Russia does not mean the "end of history", said Friday the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Yevhen Yenin.
The Prosecutor General's office earlier Friday announced that 32 of the 33 detained earlier on the territory of Belarus of a Russian citizen returned to Russia. Thirty-third citizen of Russia, which also has a Belarusian citizenship, remained in the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
Ukraine "with regret" accepts the decision of Belarus to give Russia 32 detained citizens, Kiev expected "is more legally correct and informed decisions", reports on Friday, the office of the President.
The Prosecutor General's office earlier Friday said that detained earlier on the territory of Belarus 32 Russian citizen returned to Russia.
The Ukrainian foreign Ministry denies the involvement of the citizens of the country to destabilize the situation in Belarus, reported on the Agency's website.
Earlier the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the instigators of street protests in Minsk are people from abroad. According to him, the country was "already in large numbers from Poland, Holland, Ukraine".
Musician Sergey Shnurov in verse reacted to the strike on the Belarusian enterprise BelAZ.
In Instagram he posted a video with a crowd of workers "BelAZ", shouting the slogan "go away!".
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko cannot be considered a legitimate leader of the state, said the head of Lithuania Gitanos Nausea.
Nausea earlier offered Belarus to establish a national Council for dialogue between the authorities and society and to renounce the use of force against the people and release all prisoners.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has charged to understand "all the arrests that occurred in recent days," said the speaker of the Council of the Republic of Natalia Kochanova, which quoted telegram-Sputnik of Belarus.
According to her, Lukashenko "heard the opinion of labour collectives".
Police detained at least three people at an unsanctioned rally near the Embassy of Belarus in Moscow, the correspondent of RIA Novosti from the event.
Thursday, August 13, in the region of 18 hours, the protesters gathered outside of the Embassy of Belarus in Moscow against the results of the election results in Belarus, which were won by Alexander Lukashenko.
Detained in protests in Minsk started to release from the detention center in Akrestsin street, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
Earlier the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has charged to understand "all the arrests that have occurred in the last days." As the speaker of the Council of the Republic Natalia Kochanova, by the evening of Thursday released more than a thousand people "under the obligations of non-participation in unsanctioned events".
The Russian expert, a specialist on the former Soviet Union Andrei Suzdaltsev called the nonsense words of the member of the initiative group of former presidential aspirant in Belarus Victor Babariko Yury Voskresensky, who broadcast the state TV channel "Belarus 1" said that he had accepted money from Moscow's politicians for "destabilizing the situation" in the country.
"Belarus 1" on Thursday evening aired the confession of the resurrection, who said on camera that he met with political analyst Dmitry Balkanton, later he introduced his colleague, Andrei Suzdaltsev. According to Voskresensky, for a reward he offered to "communicate further on the subject of the study of the socio-political situation in the Republic of Belarus", Balconet allegedly told him about the intention to destabilize the political situation in the country ahead of the elections. Under the statement of the resurrection, Bolkunets "get at the meeting of 30 thousand rubles from his personal funds with the words "democracy" and advised them to convey for purchasing laser pointers in case of use of violence by Riot police". Seeing the recent developments in the Republic, the resurrection "decided to turn himself in" to the KGB, which outlined all available information about the offense, realizing that it was used "as pawns blindly Moscow puppeteers".
Released from the detention center in Akrestsin street in Minsk told about the beatings. People were asked not to applaud, explaining that the ovation security forces respond with force, but some of the released said that they beat their riot police, but not IVS.
The release of detainees began in the night of Friday, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
A few people who claim to have served in law enforcement agencies of Belarus, has recorded a video in which they throw their shape. In footage posted on the page in Instagram.
Evgeny Novitsky from the satellite city of Minsk Logoysk posted on his Instagram video, which his brother says that he can not be proud of where he served, and cannot store the form that is visible stripe "special forces", at home, and then throws it in the trash.
Producer Joseph Prigogine said on the air of NSN solution conductor Vladimir Spivakov to abandon awarded by President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko the order of Francysk Skaryna, not supporting such a move.
"The order was awarded for humanism it Spivakov, for his achievements. He is the owner of this order by right as someone who is a cultural bridge between our countries and peoples," he said.
The ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko urged the country's authorities, together with partners in "at Lublin triangle" (Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland) to appoint a special representative for Belarus, which will facilitate the settlement of the situation in the country.
"I urge the Ukrainian authorities in cooperation with our partners "at Lublin triangle" to appoint a special representative for Belarus, which should actively promote the settlement of the situation and confirm the strategic role of our country in the region," the statement said Poroshenko, published in the Telegram-channel ex-President on Wednesday.
In Minsk the riot police detained two young men for making the Molotov cocktails, the press Secretary of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Belarus Olga Chemodanova.
Two residents of the Belarusian capital was stopped Wednesday night on the street Jakubowski.
The leading military program "Arsenal" on the TV channel "Belarus 1" Vladimir Burko announced in Instagram about his dismissal.
Earlier similar decision was reported by other presenters channel - Evgeny Perlin and Olga Belmac.
Belarusian police released a video which allegedly captured the pursuit of a female driver, which in social networks has told me that she was beaten by security forces and threatened with a gun.
This episode in social networks also described how the arrest of a journalist with a weapon.
The US has not decided how to respond to events in Belarus, said Secretary of state Mike Pompeo.
"We were very concerned about the elections and deeply disappointed that they were more free and fair. We have seen this behavior before, and we regret that and now this was happening. Then we saw the ensuing violence, the treatment of peaceful protesters is not the way you should handle them," said Pompeo.
In Minsk law enforcement agencies opened fire on people standing on the balconies of apartment houses, according to Sputnik of Belarus. Video of the incident posted on YouTube.
The incident occurred in the vicinity of the metro station "Grushevka" on the prospectus Dzerzhinsky.
Acting Governor of Khabarovsk Krai Mikhail Degtyarev said that at unauthorized rallies in Khabarovsk have arrived "parasitic" on the protest people where, according to him, already raising flags in solidarity with the Belarusian protests.
Unauthorized meetings are held in Khabarovsk from July 11 after the detention and arrest of ex-Governor Sergey Furgala. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin on 20 July sent in his resignation in connection with loss of trust. The acting head of the region appointed Mikhail Degtyarev.
Protests against results of presidential elections in Belarus continues the fourth day. Now all four of the opposition candidate for the post of head of state requires to cancel the results of voting. And although the environment had fewer collisions between protesters and militiamen, as a result of collisions of cars per day brought down the employee of GAI.
Mass protests began across Belarus on 9 August, after the presidential election, won by incumbent Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, according to the CEC, he scored 80,08% of the vote. Sunday evenings in the country are unauthorized protests, the protesters are building barricades, the police dispersed them with the help of special equipment.
The protesters detained in the Minsk district Uruchcha in the North-East of Minsk, reports Sputnik of Belarus.
"Near houses on Uruchcha, EPAM around the building, gathered a small number of people. Motor traffic is partially blocked. Some gathered detained", - is spoken in the message RIA "Novosti".
Security forces used stun grenades in the area of Plekhanov street in Minsk, in response to these flying fireworks, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
Heard explosions. In addition, the police gradually pushes protesters motorists and pedestrians on the Avenue Rokossovskogo. As noted by Sputnik of Belarus, riot police with a battering RAM stormed the doorways of houses where you can hide the opposition. Gathered at the shopping center "Magnet" and in the prospectus Dzerzhinsky dispersed with rubber bullets.
Security forces attacked journalists of the Russian service Bi-bi-si in Minsk, reported on the newspaper's website.
"The film crew of bi-Bi-si in Minsk were attacked by security forces during protests on August 11. All three journalists had accreditation issued by the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Belarus, were all in vests and identification with the identity", - stated in the message.
Riot police in Minsk cleaned both sides of the Independence Avenue near the shopping center "Spectrum" (the North-Eastern outskirts of the city, outside Moscow), reports Sputnik of Belarus.
The protesters who stood along the roadway, was detained.
The participants of the protest actions of the Belarusian opposition attacked a police bus and broke his glasses, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
On the Avenue Rokossovskogo continue to sweep groups of protesters. In the area of tightened large police forces. There are some crews "ambulance", they provide emergency medical care.
Protests in Belarus can not be called natural because they Mature before the presidential election, the lack of leadership and structured prevents protesters to enlist mass support, and possible failure of the protest movement, the opposition could force young people to do social projects or to emigrate, says researcher Berlin Centre for East European and international studies Kostiantyn Fedorenko.
The evening of 9 August, after the presidential elections in Belarus, in a number of cities began mass unauthorized protest, which continued Monday. Protesters in Central Minsk erecting barricades out of garbage cans. The militia used against them tear gas, water cannons and stun grenades, and drove the protesters from the city centre. On Monday, the interior Ministry reported that one protester was killed, he tried to throw an unidentified explosive device in the direction of law enforcement. Tuesday protests in Belarus continues.
The police ousted from Rokossovsky Avenue in Minsk motorists and pedestrians, the protesters against the results of presidential elections in Belarus, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
The cars that were stuck in traffic on the Avenue, left, movement from square Valeeva in the direction of the street Plekhanov is in normal mode.
Photographer MIA "today Russia" Ilya Pitalev and journalist Znak.com Nikita Telizhenko returned to Russia.
As reported by RIA Novosti Pitalev himself, in the night of Wednesday they have a car crossed the border with Belarus.
Riot police searched parked on Rokossovsky Avenue in Minsk machine in search of protesters and hazardous substances, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
The riot police was done to disperse the protesters on the Avenue Rokossovskogo in the South of Minsk, took the district under his control. Some of the protesters took refuge in their own parked cars, now the riot police was searching them in search of opponents, and hazardous substances.
Riot police in Minsk broke batons, the journalist and the driver of the Belarusian "Komsomolskaya Pravda", RIA Novosti editor-in-chief of the edition Andrey Levkovsky.
According to him, the security forces did not stop even the fact that the journalist was wearing a vest "Press", introduced himself and showed accreditation. His colleagues were covering a rally of the opposition in the Serebryanka district on the outskirts of Minsk.
Representatives of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch urged the UN special Rapporteur on Belarus to investigate the violence after the recent presidential election, said on the organization's website.
"The UN special Rapporteur on Belarus should immediately investigate the violence after the elections and to provide urgent updated information to the public, as well as recommendations for action to the protection and responsibility in response to increasing tough measures by the government and serious human rights violations," reads the statement.
Democratic party candidate for President of the United States Joe Biden has proposed a "transparent" counting of votes on presidential elections in Belarus and called on President Alexander Lukashenko to refrain from violence against protesters.
"I support those who call for a transparent and accurate counting of votes and the release of all political prisoners. I also call on President Lukashenko to respect the rights of peaceful demonstrators and to refrain from further violence" - said in a written statement, Biden.
The head of the US Senate Committee for international Affairs Jim Risch called on the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to resign if his re-election would be undemocratic.
"Mr. Lukashenko must allow a genuine tabulation of yesterday's vote to leave if, as reported, he was not re-elected in a democratic way. He also needs to immediately stop the suppression of the media, off the Internet, arrests and violence against those who seek no other way for Belarus. The peaceful transfer of power is vital for the future of Belarus and its sovereignty," - said in a written statement Risha.
Most popular in Belarus since the beginning of summer among the ebooks used philosophical treatise Jose Ortega y Gasset "revolt of the masses", the three leaders also includes audiobooks Joe Dispenza "the Power of the subconscious, or How to change a life in 4 weeks" and "Just a Mac" by Boris Akunin, as evidenced by analyst group of companies "Litres".
The company analyzed the interest of Belarusians to electronic and audio books for June, July and beginning of August 2020.
The senior Democrat of the foreign Affairs Committee in the U.S. Senate Robert Menendez proposed to count the votes or hold new elections in Belarus.
"The trump must make it clear that the recent achievements in bilateral relations between the US and Belarus will cost nothing, while the Belarusian authorities will not consider exactly the Sunday bulletins or you do not hold elections again in accordance with internationally recognized democratic standards", — said in a written statement Menendez.
Police with the support of the internal troops of Belarus ousted several hundred opposition supporters from the square near the metro station "Pushkinskaya" in Minsk, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
A large group of protesters retreated toward the Sportivnaya metro station from the center of the street Pritytskogo.
Center of the Belarusian city of Grodno was empty, according to Sputnik of Belarus.
"In Grodno the entire center, Lenin square and the Soviet sterile. People do not have", — the correspondent of RIA "Novosti".
In the district of the Minsk metro station "Sportivnaya", where ongoing clashes between security forces and protesters continue to arrive of a group of youngsters, including protective gear, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
Some of them helmets and protective elbow pads and knee pads, some are equipped with first aid kits. The majority without any protection. They explain their appearance in the area a desire to see what is happening and to Express their protest against the election results. Some come in cars and bikes.
Based in new York, a non-governmental organization "Committee to protect journalists" (CPJ) has called on the Belarusian authorities not to interfere with press to cover events in the country and investigate attacks on them.
According to the Committee, when reporting on the riots attacked the police on Sunday attacked at least four journalists, at least five were arrested. Also on Monday was detained at least three journalists in Hrodna, said the Committee.
The riots in Minsk ended, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
Police with the support of the internal troops and units of "alpha" failed to disperse protesters in the area of metro station "Sports" in the North-West of the Belarusian capital and the "Riga" supermarket to the East.
During the protests in Minsk, one person was killed, said the press service of the interior Ministry of Belarus.
As the representative of law enforcement to Olga Chemodanova in his telegram channel in the riots in the street Pritytskogo, a crowd built barricades, and one of the protesters tried to throw an explosive device at the side of the security forces, who arrived for the release of Pushkin square. However, says a spokesman, an unidentified object exploded in the hand of a protester and resulted in injuries incompatible with life.