According to charter97.org, the OSCE/ODIHR monitoring mission didn’t recognise the “parliamentary elections” in Belarus free and democratic. OSCE observers noticed vote counting was “bad or very bad” in 50 per cent of cases. 40 per cent of observers said they had had difficulties with access to vote counting. The elections ultimately fell short of OSCE [...]

A famous Belarusian music group “Lyapis Trubeckoy” underwent through drastic changes and released new album “Manifest”. There was a lot of talk about them as fans felt that musicians steered away from folk-rockish path in favor of pop-oriented commercialized style. The new album is here to change such perception. In some ways, it is a [...]

We might not expect something grandiose to happen tonight in Minsk, however, it does not hurt to revisit the events of 2006. Back then, an attempt to repeat the “Orange Revolution” failed, but it showed people’s resolve. Today, we might have 1500 people on the Freedom Square and this might not be a mind staggering [...]

A protest action demanding to hold new democratic election takes place in Minsk today. The opposition leaders called the “parliamentary election”, held by the authorities today, an “election farce”. According to them, turnout data are overstated, and votes counting is conducted by authorities’ representatives. The Belarusians have been called to come to October Square at [...]

Last Sunday I read couple blogs speculating on a stock market moves as a result of Lehman Brother’s downfall. Most agreed that we would see couple hundred points drop, or maybe even automatic trading halts. On Monday, the stock market shed 500 points and yet avoided any trading halts. Today we see a [...]

Just yesterday I mentioned that following Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filings, some rushed to auction domain names associated with this firm. Yesterday it was www.falloflehman.com which was marketed as a potential web site for someone interested in writing a book about Lehman Brothers. Today it is a bundle with domain names focused on a merger [...]

I never thought that some day I will witness Bear Stearns being bought for $10 per share, Merrill Lynch acquired by the Bank of America, and lehman Brothers shopped on Ebay. The price is $99,999,999.00 with an option of no payments until 2009 with Ebay Master Card. Meanwhile, some “entrepreneurs” are already attempting to [...]