INFLATION OF THE SOCIAL STATE OF MIND
The parliamentary elections of 2012 differed from the previous ones in the presence of an intrigue. The matter, of course, did not concern a possible getting of representatives of Belarusian opposition into the deputy body of the lower chamber of the Belarusian Parliament...

PASSIONS ABOUT THE VOTERS TURNOUT
Opposition politicians, regardless of how they participated in the election campaign, proved to be extremely unanimous in their opinion: "The people boycotted the so-called elections!" Thus according to the co-chairman of the unregistered party Belarusian Christian Democracy (BCD) V. Rymashevsky, "the boycott of the "elections" is an established fact...

IN FULL CONFORMITY WITH THE CODE OF HAMMURABI
On September 23 at a polling station A. Lukashenko described the terminating election campaign in the following way: "If this time someone puts to doubt the choice of the Belarusian people again, then I do not even know how to hold elections, according to what standards and laws". However, there were those who had their doubts...

EROSION OF THE IMAGE OF A "STRONG LEADER"
In full conformity with a quite moderate growth in social indices A. Lukashenko’s electoral rating has increased by modest 1.9 points for the quarter. It may safely be ascertained in the given case that effectiveness of trillions’ worth investment in the electorate proved to be low, now more than ever...

WHO SUPPORTS A. LUKASHENKO SUPPORTS THE DEATH PENALTY
October 10 is World Day against the Death Penalty. Belarus is the only European country where death sentences are executed, which is the main obstacle in its way of entering the Council of Europe. In Belarus the death penalty was legitimatized in a referendum in November, 1996...

"PEOPLE’S PROGRAM" FOR A SPLIT NATION
An Internet project on working out a positive new vision of Belarus future spearheaded by the movement "For Freedom" started in the BYnet in May, 2011. In fifteen months on August 15, 2012 its initiators presented "People’s Program" – the result of the cooperative labor of almost four dozen of Belarusian experts...

EVERYBODY TO THE VOLUNTARY SATURDAY WORK!
According to the census of 2009, every second resident of Belarus has either higher or vocational education, and the share of people with primary education makes up 6%. For reference: in Portugal the former index equals 13%, the latter – 72%. Nevertheless, in 2010 Belarus ranked 79 by the IMF list of per capita nominal GDP($ 5.6 thousand), and Portugal was 31 ($ 31 thousand)...

WHOSE WIND IS STRONGER?
The rule here is to consider that form the geopolitical preferences point of view Belarusian society is divided into approximately two equal parts – supporters of the western (European) and eastern (Russian) vectors of development. The opposite orientation of the geopolitical vectors does exclude a possibility of an exchange between the two ideologically incompatible parts of society...

THE GEOPOLITICAL SWING SWUNG ASIDE FROM RUSSIA
The September opinion poll of 2012 registered a marked change in the population’s geopolitical preferences. A dramatic increase in sentiment in favor of integration with Russia gave place to an equally sharp decrease in it, and the ratio between "Belo-Russians" and "Euro-Belarusians" virtually returned to the level of the previous summer – the height of the economic crisis...

HOW BELARUSIANS ASSESSED THE PLUSH "LANDING FORCE"
Results of the September opinion poll of 2012 registered a decrease in pro-Russian and intensification of pro-European sentiment in Belarusian society: 36.2% of respondents declared for integration with Russia, and 44.1% – for Belarus joining the EU...

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