"Novaya Gazeta" to picket Belarusian Embassy in Moscow today

Journalists of the Moscow newspaper "Novaya Gazeta"  will conduct a costume picket near the Belarusian Embassy in Moscow on Monday, December 27. The picket is allowed by the authorities. They are going to express solidarity with their imprisoned Belarusian colleagues this way. 

Let us remind you, the correspondent of the "Novaya Gazeta" in Minsk, the presidential candidate Andrej Sannikau's wife Iryna Khalip is now in the KGB detention center. She is suspected in organization of mass disturbance at the Independence Square in Minsk on December 19. Iryna faces up to 15 years of imprisonment.