Press Review

On 7 June Alla Sannikov met with her son, the presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, at the detention centre on Volodarskii Street.

Data from a national poll in March, which was conducted by specialists registered in Vilnius of the Independent Institute of Socio-Economic and Political Studies, recorded a very significant increase in pro-European sentiment and a cooling of the Belarusians to the prospect of union with Russia.

According to unofficial information, fuel prices will rise again in the very near future.

At an international conference, which will begin work in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius tomorrow, there will be a discussion of the problems related with the construction of a nuclear power station, in the conditions of the political, economic and social crisis in the Republic of Belarus.

On 31 May, activists of the Belarusian democratic community sent cards to political prisoners from Minsk Main Post Office.

In “Almi”, a Gomel supermarket, shoppers snapped up a whole pallet of sugar in 20 seconds.

The German newspaper “Die Welt” has published an article devoted to the situation on the eastern borders of the EU, namely Belarus and Ukraine.

After the brutal crackdown of the peaceful act of protest in Independence Square on 19.12.2010 a former policeman, Alyaksandr Klaskouski, has been behind bars.

The residents of Rechitsa have told Belarusians where they would like to see Alksandr Lukashenko.

Yesterday in Brussels there was a picket near the Council of Europe building.