Another scandal between Moscow and Minsk has broken. This time, it happened at the highest level. As Kommersant daily has learnt, a session of supreme state council of the "union state" of Russia and Belarus, scheduled for today, was broken.

For the first time in history awarding prizes "Freedom to Create" has become remarkable for Belarus. Giving the prestigious prize to the Belarusians demonstrates that the Europeans support freedom fighters in our country.

Public figures visited Kurapaty memorial area to pay tribute to heroes of Slutsk uprising, repressed and killed under Stalin's times.

The meeting of Belarus and Russia's leaders in Moscow planned on December has been postponed because the agenda of the summit has not been adjusted completely.

I recognize that the police could be accused of many unlawful moves, but I am strongly opposed to reporters demonstrating those materials without our comments to them," Lutsenko said.

For 12 days rallies of solidarity with Alyaksandar Barazenka near the remand prison in Valadarski Street.

President Viktor Yuschenko has urged member states of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) not to yield to outside influence in forming their opinion about Ukraine.

As regards December, when the foreign ministers will gather together in Brussels, I believe the issue will be removed from the agenda. We well realize there will be no MAP for Ukraine. There is no consensus among the main players,"

She said that the meeting of President Viktor Yuschenko and OU-PSD deputies considered two faction candidacies for the post of the Verkhovna Rada chairman: Ivan Pliusch and Viacheslav Kyrylenko.

Former MP Syarhei Skrabets has been seized property for the second time. Officers of justice confiscated a kitchen unit, a sofa and other things for a total amount of 600,000 Belarusian rubles.

Yushchenko became head of Our Ukraine to use it as a base for a large party on the back of which Yushchenko will ride again into the highest office, political expert V. Tsybulko told ZIK Dec. 1.

Delay of the session of the supreme state council of the "union state" was preceded by exchange of notes of protest between the foreign ministries of Russia and Belarus.

On December 1 Russian Prime Minister signed an order finalizing the construction of the second stage of the Baltic Pipeline System-2 (BPS-2). It is stated by RIA Novosti with a reference to the press-service of Russian government.

He said that the speaker should be the person, who would reveal the anti-crisis skills and be able to organize the work of the parliament during the period of the crisis.

On November 21 the former leader of the "Right Alliance" Yuras Karetnikau received a letter from the office of Prosecutor General. He was informed that the criminal case against him had been terminated.

The regime has created very strange conditions for independent newspapers "Nasha Niva" and "Narodnaya Volya" to be returned into the state system of distribution.

An owner of a Minsk club, where anniversary of the historian event was planned to be marked, was ordered to cancel a lease contract by secret service officers.

The Communist Party faction's leader Petro Symonenko announced this to journalists after the leaders of parliamentary factions met with the leadership of the parliament.

On November 10, Alyaksandr Lukashenka signed Law on Information, Informatization, and Information Protection. It was published on November 26 and will come into force six months after the publication.

Secretary of the Belarusian Central Election Commission (CEC) Mikalai Lazavik thinks there are no OSCE's standards, authors of the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission Final Report on the "parliamentary election" apply to.