At the end of October in Geneva, Switzerland UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the official report of Belarus has been heard about the country's achievements in the advancement of women. Among the Belarusian human rights defenders who happen to be present at the discussion of the report and read out was Viciebsk human rights activist Leonid Svetik.

Political prisoners and founder of the "Platform Innovation" Mikhail Zhamchuzhny received the status of a malicious intruder mode content in the colony. This political prisoners, is serving a sentence in a correctional colony #14 in Navasady, he wrote in a letter to the human rights activist Tatyana Ravyaka.

Recently, the public learned that the remains of 172 people have been found in a forest near Chajsy, with military honors were reburied at the military memorial in Łośvida station. The authorities assure that people were killed during the Second World War. Comment on the event, we asked the head of the civil initiative "Chajsy" local historian Jan Dzyarzhautsau.

According to human rights activist Leonid Svetik, the only civilized way to resolve the situation in Viciebsk as a result of the proposed construction of St. Sophia Cathedral, a local referendum, which initiate activist suggested that the City Council of Deputies.

October 8 in Viciebsk "European House" took place just two conference of the movement "For Freedom". First, the eastern part of Viciebsk members of the movement elected delegates to the national conference, and then at a regional conference, representatives of the regions have decided on a new co-ordinator throughout the area.