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In Belarus, too, is not quiet (16 photos + video)
Prezidentsike elections in Belarus were completed. While izbirtelnye Commission reported the results of the vote count, which was not difficult to predict, on the streets of Minsk out supporters of opposition candidates. Rally at the Government House met police and special forces. They were beaten and zderzhivali.
Thousands rally against rigged elections began on October Square at 19:00 - an hour before the debriefing. According to the correspondent of the area attended at least 10 thousand people.
Before people made all the opposition candidates, with the exception of Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu. Infox.ru According to the press service of the presidential candidate, even before the end of voting on Nyaklyaeu was attacked by unknown masked men in black. However, according to the Interior Ministry, Nyaklyaeu was among the "aggressive-minded citizens" who were traveling in a bus to the rally. The police wanted to inspect the vehicle, but the citizens, many of whom were allegedly intoxicated, attacked law enforcement officers with sticks and stones. Police were forced to use force in response. As a result, the presidential candidate remained unconscious for seven minutes, he hit his left eye, and a head injury of moderate severity. To the applause of journalists and activists Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu was transferred on a stretcher from the office of the campaign "Tell the Truth!" In an ambulance. Now he is in hospital.
Shortly after the start of the rally crowd was forced to leave October Square: speakers "jammed" loud music, the phone is locked. Belarusian phone korrspondenta Infox.ru also disabled - the connection has only Moscow number. People in the crowd complained that throughout the day could not use the Russian Internet media.
After leaving October Square, the crowd moved along Independence Avenue, blocking traffic. In the area of 22:30 Moscow time, people came to Independence Square, which is a building of the Council of Ministers and the Central Election Commission. Located on the square a monument to Lenin crowd turned into a platform for speakers. The opposition believes that the area gathered around 30 thousand people.
Law enforcement officers lined the building of the CEC. Politicians urged them to go to his side, and the protesters - not to succumb to provocations and not to engage in a fight with the police. While before the rally in favor presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski, assistant wiped the blood from his head. When it was applied to the injury, it is still unknown. Soon as the correspondent Infox.ru, opposition presidential candidates went into the building of the Central Electoral Commission to conduct the negotiations.
At 23:30 in the area of paddy arrived. Some of the protesters, fearing arrests and beatings had left the area. "Get out of here now will be beaten," - advised correspondent Infox.ru runs past the woman. Soon the police clamped part of the protesters at the monument to Lenin and began to beat them. "Knocked to the ground and beat lying" - said one of the beaten.
Riot police blocked the entrance to the subway. Those who did not manage to escape, the police divided into groups, blocked and beaten. Journalists were beaten on a par with the opposition, ignoring the international accreditation. As a result, affected operators Russia Today, correspondent of TV channel "REN" and "Novaya Gazeta". Beaten students, according to witnesses, refuse gospitaliatsii - they feared expulsion from the university for taking part in the rally.
Law enforcement authorities arrested the five presidential candidates of ten: Andrei Sannikov, Nikolai Statkevich, Grigory Kostusev, Vitaly Rymashevsky and Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu. And Kostusev, Rymasheuski Nyaklyaeu and taken to the prison hospital.
All the time were held in Minsk protests, the Belarusian television broadcast an empty area of the October, arguing that there were no demonstrations in the capital does not occur. The opposition claims that President Alexander Lukashenko won just over 30% of the vote. According to official exit polls, voted for the incumbent president 79, 1%.
Thousands rally against rigged elections began on October Square at 19:00 - an hour before the debriefing. According to the correspondent of the area attended at least 10 thousand people.
Before people made all the opposition candidates, with the exception of Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu. Infox.ru According to the press service of the presidential candidate, even before the end of voting on Nyaklyaeu was attacked by unknown masked men in black. However, according to the Interior Ministry, Nyaklyaeu was among the "aggressive-minded citizens" who were traveling in a bus to the rally. The police wanted to inspect the vehicle, but the citizens, many of whom were allegedly intoxicated, attacked law enforcement officers with sticks and stones. Police were forced to use force in response. As a result, the presidential candidate remained unconscious for seven minutes, he hit his left eye, and a head injury of moderate severity. To the applause of journalists and activists Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu was transferred on a stretcher from the office of the campaign "Tell the Truth!" In an ambulance. Now he is in hospital.
Shortly after the start of the rally crowd was forced to leave October Square: speakers "jammed" loud music, the phone is locked. Belarusian phone korrspondenta Infox.ru also disabled - the connection has only Moscow number. People in the crowd complained that throughout the day could not use the Russian Internet media.
After leaving October Square, the crowd moved along Independence Avenue, blocking traffic. In the area of 22:30 Moscow time, people came to Independence Square, which is a building of the Council of Ministers and the Central Election Commission. Located on the square a monument to Lenin crowd turned into a platform for speakers. The opposition believes that the area gathered around 30 thousand people.
Law enforcement officers lined the building of the CEC. Politicians urged them to go to his side, and the protesters - not to succumb to provocations and not to engage in a fight with the police. While before the rally in favor presidential candidate Vital Rymasheuski, assistant wiped the blood from his head. When it was applied to the injury, it is still unknown. Soon as the correspondent Infox.ru, opposition presidential candidates went into the building of the Central Electoral Commission to conduct the negotiations.
At 23:30 in the area of paddy arrived. Some of the protesters, fearing arrests and beatings had left the area. "Get out of here now will be beaten," - advised correspondent Infox.ru runs past the woman. Soon the police clamped part of the protesters at the monument to Lenin and began to beat them. "Knocked to the ground and beat lying" - said one of the beaten.
Riot police blocked the entrance to the subway. Those who did not manage to escape, the police divided into groups, blocked and beaten. Journalists were beaten on a par with the opposition, ignoring the international accreditation. As a result, affected operators Russia Today, correspondent of TV channel "REN" and "Novaya Gazeta". Beaten students, according to witnesses, refuse gospitaliatsii - they feared expulsion from the university for taking part in the rally.
Law enforcement authorities arrested the five presidential candidates of ten: Andrei Sannikov, Nikolai Statkevich, Grigory Kostusev, Vitaly Rymashevsky and Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu. And Kostusev, Rymasheuski Nyaklyaeu and taken to the prison hospital.
All the time were held in Minsk protests, the Belarusian television broadcast an empty area of the October, arguing that there were no demonstrations in the capital does not occur. The opposition claims that President Alexander Lukashenko won just over 30% of the vote. According to official exit polls, voted for the incumbent president 79, 1%.
