The Constitutional Court of Belarus sees no problem in the lack of translations into the Belarusian language of the laws of the Republic of Belarus. Presidential administration suggests using automatic translators on the official sites. And the Council of the Republic (the upper house of parliament) believes that the right to choose one of the two official languages belongs to the state, and not to the citizens.

On December 6th, police officers stopped a bus on the highway near Minsk. All 53 passengers of the bus were heading to Kiev for Maidan. Due to, in Belarus already well-known reasons (or rather, a comlete lack of them), the bus was held up, the driver lost his license, and the passengers were asked to go to the nearest police department. Passengers decided to get to Kiev in their own ways - through the night snow-covered field, by minibuses and with the help of their friends, who gave them a lift. Some of them had to return to Minsk. But some still reached Kiev.

A petition was posted a few weeks ago on the website change.org, in which a young doctor from Gomel Jean Chubukov is asking the country's leadership to include the former state white-red-white flag in the list of extremist materials.

Similar initiatives were announced in the past, especially, by the most odious ideologists, but it has never been a direct appeal before.

The issue becomes even more interesting if one considers that the author of the petition is not only a doctor, but a soon-to-be adviser to the president and the government. Since it is the future analysts for the government that are trained in the project "Smart Networks" where Jean Chubukov actively participates.

On October 19th, 2013 a 5-day hunger strike of Mozyr oil refinery worker Yuri Shvets ended in Belarus. Yuri Shvets is the head of an independent trade union at the plant and it was because of the union claims to the management that he began a hunger strike.

The main reason for the strike was the pressure exerted on the members of the independent trade union. The independent trade union has been operating in the company since 1990. However, according to activists, with the establishment of state ideologists at the plant in 2008, the real pressure has started. Over the past five years more than 600 people left the union because of threats and intimidation. The final reason for the hunger strike was the dismissal of five activists of the independent trade union.

The hunger strike was held in an unusual format for Belarus. On every day of the hunger strike Yuri Shvets went to work at the plant from 8 to 6 p.m., however, after work hours he went back to his car which was parked near the company office, where he spent the night until the next business day. This way every employee of the plant at any time could come and see with his/her own eyes that their colleague from the independent trade union was really starving. Vassily Alhovsky had been a part of the strike together with Yuri Shvets for the first three days, but due to health problems he was later forced to stop the strike.