On 3 June 1988 the Belarusians learnt the truth about Stalin’s repressions in the country through an article “Kurapaty –the Road of Death” in “Litaratura i Mastatstva” newspaper, written by Zyanon Paznyak and Yauhen Shmyhalou. This article also provoked one of the first mass protest action in the USSR – people came to Kurapaty on Dzyady (the day of commemoration of the dead).

Activists of the civil campaign “European Belarus” plan to collect a million of signatures of the country citizens in favour of Belarus’ accession to the EU in order to submit them to the European parliament and the Council of Europe.

It is planned to carry out the most active collection of signatures simultaneously with election campaigning. However, even today several dozens thousands of citizens have expressed themselves in favour of the idea of Belarus joining the EU, said one of the participants of the campaign Zmitser Barodnka.