Moscow anarchists congratulated Belarusian election Lukashenko

December 19, when in Belarus presidential elections were held, some of Moscow anarchists have come to the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus. Belarusian citizens, coming out of the polling station at the embassy, the anarchists were handing out Christmas greeting cards with the words "May there always be Dad!" Let there always be me. " Not having time to read the text on the reverse side of the card, which cited political prisoners, the Belarusians were happy New Year greetings.

Hype around the embassy in Moscow was observed: for more than an hour about his stay with the anarchists of the polling station came only a few people.Present at the output of the journalists surveyed, only one of pozhelalal declare their choice: he voted against all candidates for the presidency.
Anarchists also went into the next to the embassy of Belarus shoe store and a few greeting cards left there.
Its share in the Belarusian election day anarchists wanted to draw attention to continuing human rights violations in Belarus. Since September 2010 has been delayed a total of about 30 anarchists and other Belarusian civic activists.Four of them - Nicholas Dzyadok, Alexander Frantskevich, Maxim and Igor Vetkin Olinevich - are still behind bars, and Igor, without any extradition procedure was simply taken away by unknown from Moscow.
As stated on December 16 at a press conference in Moscow, the Belarusian participant of the environmental movement, Vladimir Volodin, anarchists in Belarus were the last obschestvennysm movement, which the authorities had almost nothing is known.The incident with the Russian embassy on Sept. 3, 2010, when unknown persons threw a Molotov cocktail, was a convenient excuse "to rewrite all." At the same time the authorities recalled the unsolved crimes like the attack on the House of Trade Unions or National Bank, as well as an unauthorized anti-militarist demonstration of the anarchists against the Russian-Belarussian joint exercises in the actions of participants which did not have a criminal offense.
Moscow anarchists have repeatedly expressed about the political nature of the prosecution Dedkov, Frantskevych, Vetkin and Olinevicha.The severity of articles on which instituted the case in all these cases, nor in any way consistent with what was perfect. According to the protestors, the dictatorial regime of Lukashenko is the immediate cause of the radical wing of the opposition movement in Belarus. Framework for any social and political activism are narrowed in the country every year. Trying to support groups arestovannyh get approval for a picket in Minsk and was not successful.

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