The authorities have banned a rally in Vitebsk December 19 - the 3rd anniversary of the crackdown of the action on the last day of the presidential election in 2010. Bid to host the event was serving local political activist Alexander Kirillov. The event was supposed to start at 20:00 ( from this point the CEC began counting the votes ) and end at 20:30 ( at this time Nyaklyayeu broke the head, and the other candidates began to arrest , without waiting for the results of the counting of votes ) .

However, despite the ban , picket, may still take place . Because, according to Kirillov , for such an event does not need any special permission from local authorities . The application to the picket , he wrote: " In addition to inform you that under Article 35 of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus citizens retain the right of the picket 19.12.2013 year and without the permission of officials, which is also enshrined in Article 137 and paragraph 3 of Article 140 of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus."