Elections in Belarus 2015

This year’s election is unprecedentedly popular: going to the polls, many people jump at the opportunity to do shopping at refreshment rooms which are laden of food products and alcoholic beverages at low prices

Праспект Незалежнасці ў Менску амаль пусты, як і навакольныя вуліцы. Independence Avenue, the main street in Minsk, is almost empty; so are the surrounding streets. Have its residents gone out of the city or they don’t want to be mistaken for a protester?

“Cossack candidate” from Hrodna spoke to an empty room and admitted that he does not have support in the city.

У цэнтры Менску адбыўся трэці народны сход, які арганізаваў Мікалай Статкевіч. Людзі пратэставалі супраць расейскай вайсковай базы, якую могуць размясціць пад Бабруйскам. Падчас акцыі было абвешчана аб стварэнні новага руху ў падтрыманне незалежнасці і дзяржаўнасці Беларусі.

Now the first and still the only president is campaigning for “the future of an independent Belarus”. What did he promise us in the previous elections?

Former political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich organized a picket near GUM department store in Minsk, demanding free elections.

Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka harvested potatoes and melons in the territory of his official residence Drazdy on Sunday.

Signatures for nomination of the incumbent leader of Belarus a presidential candidate are being collected directly in the therapist’s consulting room in Hrodna municipal polyclinic No 1.

The initiative group to nominate Anatol Lyabedzka, the leader of the United Civic Party of Belarus (UCPB), a presidential candidate held the picket “Which job should Lukashenka be slotted into?” in Minsk

Tatsiana Karatkevich, a potential candidate for president, visited the Belarusian city of Hrodna . She arrived in the company of political scientist Ihar Lyalkov, a representative of coalition ‘People’s Referendum’.