This is how Minskers of Pervomayskiy district meet their mate who was just released after 15 days of arrest.

Do you have someone or something to say goodbye to? Protesters in Barauliany (a town in Minsk region) do.

Last days, a white horse with a red blanket on top was seen in different places of Minsk. It already got loved by the Minskers and become a local internet meme.

Colourful solidarity action took place in Lviv (Ukraine).

6th Belarusian People's Congress scheduled for February 11-12, Lukashenko announced today. It will be attended by 2700 people.

He noted that today, as during the first Belarusian People's Congress in 1996, the country is going through a difficult period, maybe even a more ambiguous one.

“This is what sets the current period and the current Belarusian People's Congress apart from others. Then, as I said, it was not easy, but there was no such external pressure. All major powers were busy with their problems, and the European Union was not yet the European Union,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

Donald Trump signed the 2021 budget. Part of the document is the “Act on Belarus Democracy, Human Rights and Sovereignty”, which gives additional powers to the US President to impose sanctions in connection with post-election protests in Belarus

“Pandemic,” a new work by artist Vladimir Tsesler.

Yesterday, State TV said that specialists from the Polish special services tried to recruit an assistant military attaché and “a career officer who took language courses in Poland.”

It is alleged that the Belarusian Foreign Ministry has already reacted on both facts, and “the Polish partners admitted the facts, but wanted to hush up the scandal.”

Today is Nina Baginskaya's 74th birthday. Looks like all of Minsk congratulates her.

A 20-year Minsker was convicted of taking part in the July action: four criminal articles, four years in prison.

Nina Baginskaya came to the court of the Soviet district of Minsk: her 43-year-old son Pavel will be tried at 15:00.

The man was detained on January 1, when he and his mother were moving towards the house from Vostochnaya Street.

According to Baginskaya, three security officials jumped up to Pavel, dragged him into a car and drove away. Probably the man is now in Akrestsina jail. He was charged under two administrative articles - 23.34 and 23.4.

Today's retirees' action took place in the form of solidarity chain lined up along Nezavisimosti avenue.

Vladimir Gusakov, the head of the Academy of Sciences, said that “the role of science is to be with the government.”

“I am especially grateful to many leaders of our academic organizations for their correct civil position, for avoiding confrontation between scientists and the authorities.”

“We have preserved the Academy and its personnel potential and are ready to continue working with the country's leadership and for the country's economy.”

The police are looking for the participants of yesterday's “unauthorized mass event” which is in fact the pensioners' march. This information appeared last night on the website of the Municipal Department of Internal Affairs of the Minsk City Executive Committee.

Lukashenko, speaking to the workers of the Gorizont plant: “I am simply not an enemy to my own people and to myself first of all. [...] If you do not like the current president, then only elections can resolve this issue. Elections only...”

“Gazeta Wyborcza,” one of the most famous modern Polish media outlets, placed on the front page white-red-white and the inscription “Long live Belarus.”

Late yesterday evening unidentified persons detained people in several districts of Minsk. The moment of detention in Novaya Borovaya got on the surveillance camera. An unknown person kicks the man in the stomach and takes the woman away. He is holding an object that looks like a pistol.