Elections in Belarus 2015

Polish journalist Maria Przełomiec says that the West is too busy with its own problems now. In her opinion, it is not interested in what is happening in Belarus.

The latest news on the election of the President of the Republic of Belarus (by Minsk time).

Presidential candidate Tatsiana Karatkevich, her mother and husband have cast their votes at polling station Nr 8 in Minsk.

President Alyaksandr Lukashenka voiced his attitude towards the fact that the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich had been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Almost a fifth of Belarusian voters has taken part in early voting since October, 6, the Central Election Commission said on the website.

At 13:30 (Minsk time) the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded in the Swedish capital. Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich is among the favourites.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russia there were other places Turkey could get natural gas and other countries that could build its first nuclear plant, in the wake of Russian incursions into Turkish air space during its air campaign in Syria.

Four Russian Navy warships fired 26 missiles at 11 ISIS targets from Caspian Sea, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced when reporting to president Putin.

Belsat TV asked the people of Lithuania about their attitude to the deployment of Russian air bases in the territory of Belarus.

Video of an unmarked truck with sound-amplifying equipment running around Minsk was posted in Facebook by one of the users. The MAZ truck looks very much like a paddy wagon.