Looks like they have indeed broken up, Kozulin and Milinkevich. Silly - but maybe it's better this way: I don't know about others, but I still haven't gotten over Yushchenko and Tymoshenko's breakup eight months after their victory. They wouldn't have won if they had split right there at Maidan - but it's just too painful to think that they couldn't find it in them to last together for at least two years, and maybe achieve something visible in that period.

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Saturday, March 25, is Freedom Day in Belarus. From reading Belarusian LJs, I feel that there's much disappointment - so many people have chosen to stay home; the leaders don't seem ready for peaceful standing around; the evil weather, etc. March 25 may be the opposition's second chance, a second attempt. But there're still four nights to go before that.

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I wonder how many people who got disappointed in Yushchenko now feel better about him - because of Belarus and the memories it inspires.

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All those arrests again - Lebedko's one of them. And all the stories of how people get detained by the police when they are trying to take food and water to the protesters. A real blockade - and so different from Kyiv.

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How long are all the journalists planning to stay in Minsk? Their presence might be one of the reasons Lukashenko's not doing anything crazy. I really hope they (the journalists) aren't going to migrate to Ukraine en masse to cover our election on Sunday. No drama is expected here, just lots of really confusing bullshit - so please do stay in Belarus, dear journalists!