27.04.2010 Brest Social-Democrats to appeal election results in five constituencies

A number of the Brest regional leaders of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party Hramada, inclusing Ihar Maslouski, head of the BSDP Hramada Brest regional office, his deputy Valiantsin Lazarenkau, Hanna Kanius, the party's city leader, as well as the organization's activists Svitaliana Aliasiuk and Aliaksandr Saldatkin, all ex-candidates for local councils of various levels, are going to lodge complaints against the official election results in the region.

27.04.2010 Council of Europe: We have serious barriers for rapproachmenet with Minsk

The Chair of the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers, Micheline Calmy-Rey has called upon the Belarusian government to redouble efforts in the cause of rapproachment to this organisation.

27.04.2010 Observer thrown into jail for two days and fined

Ales Taustyka, an agent of local council candidate Ales Lahvinets, was fined 175,000 rubles on April 26.

Ales Taustyka, detained in the evening April 24 at a Minsk polling station, was accused of disorderly conduct. “They said I turned down all ballot boxes and, I beg your pardon, urinated in every corner of the ballot station,” the agent said about his accusation.

27.04.2010 Mahiliou pro-dem forces report on election results

Yesterday, on 26 April, the pro-democratic forces of Mahiliou held a press-conference, presenting their results of the election campaign monitoring. According to preliminary figures, only two pro-democratic candidates were elected deputies of Mahiliou regional local councils – Zhanna Shcharbinina and Aliaksei Tsiulkou (both representing the Belarusian Christian Democracy).