Bicycle race cancelled in Minsk due to “silent actions”
https://spring96.org/en/news/44806
2011
2011-07-26T17:26:50+0300
2011-07-26T17:26:50+0300
1970-01-01T03:00:00+0300
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It had to take place in Horki Park on Tuesday, July 26.
The ecological bicycle race had to be dated for the energy saving day.
However, the organizers refused from their idea at the last moment.
According to them, there were appeals for participants of silent
protests to join the event and to demand economic and political changes.
Appeals
to wear “Shos” T-shirts during the bicycle race appeared in social
networks, informs agzeta.ru. It stopped the organizers. They decided to
cancel their event after Internet debates with representatives of the
opposition.