On November 6 the 12th Minsk Forum finished in the capital of Belarus.

Expendable materials and medicines necessary during the outbreak of the disease have been delivered.

A believer from Jehovah's Witnesses community has been punished by a huge fine. He demanded realization of his right for alternative military service.

A hunger strike of businessman Andrei Bandarenka continues since October 19. He protests against the verdict issued by the court of Pershamajski district of Minsk.

Christos Pourgourides was a PACE special rapporteur on Belarus and investigated disappearances of the opposition politicians.

Journalists were preparing a piece about the situation at the glass plant.

Leanid Tarasenka spent 14 months in places of detention trying to prove his innocence.

Russia welcomes plans of official Minsk to consider recognition of independent Georgian regions.

In connection with exceeding the incidence of disease threshold in Minsk a flu and viral infection epidemic was officially announced in Minsk on November 6.

The Ministry of Information returned founder of the independent public and political newspaper "Marynahorskaya" documents for official registration to the newspaper.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle sent his greetings to the participants of the 12th Minsk Forum, which opened on November 4.

Possible recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia by Belarus would contradict the spirit of cooperation and would unlikely to facilitate it in the framework of Eastern Partnership policy.

The movement of Afghan war veterans demands to stop persecution of businessmen from Vaukavysk.

Viktor Yushchenko and Alyaksandr Lukashenka are to visit the Ukrainian one of the Ukrainian regions affected by swine flu epidemic.

Mass media experts say representatives of the Belarusian authorities don not want to give important information to the public.

On November 5 Belarusian and Ukrainian presidents Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Viktor Yushchenko met in Kyiv.

The Belarusian ruler has commented on the swine flu outbreak with death cases in an outrageously cynical way.

Doctors have to conceal information about swine flu outbreak in Belarus on an order of Lukashenka's administration, and his personal attitude to the fact that people are dying in Belarus cannot be called anything but boorish.

Belarus plans to send a parliamentary commission to South Ossetia and Abkhazia to estimate a possibility of recognition of the two republics.

Unlike the previous year, a discussion was not planned at the opening of the Minsk Forum, so Uladzimir Makei managed to avoid unpleasant questions.