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About 400 people gathered in Minsk's Kasrtycznickaja Square to protest aganst president's edict No 222.
Their protests were not organized and were not mass enough, he said.
January was colder than December so utility payments are higher, they explained.
Bastunets is abroad, Kalinkina and Starykevich will not take part in the programme ‘for personal reasons’.
On Thursday, site near Minsk hosted drills involving chairmen of regional and Minsk executive committee.
Belarusians spent almost one billion dollars to buy new and used cars abroad in 2015, Belarusian Automobile Association reports.
"It’s a boy! He did not want to wait anymore and was born two weeks earlier than expected,” the happy father wrote on Facebook.
Belarsuains pay only 15% for central heating at the moment but 100% for the remainder of utilities bills.
The audio operator who has gone on hunger strike makes 7 million roubles a month, the company said.