Kurapaty

On October 29, Western diplomats came to Kurapaty, a place on the outskirts of Minsk, and laid flower tributes to the victims of Stalinist repressions. Employees of pro-Lukashenka TV stations Belarus 1, ONT, STV unexpectedly arrived at the scene and started to act in a rather off-hand way, trying to thwart the memorial event.

On January 15, Belarusian activist and former political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich was detained in Kurapaty, his wife Nasta said on Facebook.

Today’s protest march ‘Dzyady against Terror’ is dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Stalinist Repressions. It has kicked off at 2 pm (local time).

A memorial event known as The Night Of Executed Poets took place in Kurapaty, a Stalin-era mass execution site near Minsk, on October 29, the unofficial day of remembrance of the Soviet repression in Belarus.

On August 21, about 10,000 residents of the Belarusian capital formed the 13-kilometre Repentance Chain.