monument of Tadeusz Kosciuszko

On October 25, Partyzanski district court of Minsk passed a guilty verdict in the case of a 28-year-old local resident. A video of her dancing with a white-red- white flag in front of the Eternal Flame commemorating the Soviet victims of the Second World War went viral on the Belarusian segment of the Internet.

People who are waving white-red-white flags will be barred from ‘desecrating’ World War Two monuments and memorial places, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktar Khrenin said on August, 23.

On February 4, traditionally in Merachoushchyna, in Ivatsevichy district, there were held celebrations of the 274th anniversary of the birth of Tadeusz Kosciuszko.