Minsk Metro Bombing
The 2011 Minsk Metro bombing took place on 11 April 2011 when 15 people were killed and 204 were injured when a bomb exploded within the Minsk Metro, Belarus. The explosion happened at the central Kastryčnickaja station at 17:55 local time. Initially the cause of the explosion was unclear, but was found to have been a bomb."Belarus arrests several over Minsk metro bomb blast"
, BBC News, 12 April 2011 The Prosecution Office launched a criminal investigation and classified the event as a terrorist attack. Two suspects arrested on 13 April confessed to the bombing but the motives remained unclear. In March 2012, both perpetrators, Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavalyou, were

Kastryčnickaja (Minsk Metro)
Kastrychnitskaya ( be, Кастрычніцкая; russian: Октябрьская) is a Minsk Metro station. It opened on June 30, 1984. The station is one of three on the Minsk Metro to have been built with an entrance in an existing building, the other two being Kupalawskaya (Minsk Metro), Kupalawskaya and Ploshcha Lyenina (Minsk Metro), Ploshcha Lyenina. 2011 bombing Kastrychnitskaya station was the site of the Minsk Metro bombing on April 11, 2011. Gallery Metro Octobre.JPG Oktyab 08.jpg Oktyab 06.jpg Minsk-Metro-Oktyabrskaya-10.jpg Oktyab 04.jpg Oktyab 07.jpg Oktyab 05.jpg Oktyab 11.jpg References

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Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (as transliterated from Russian language, Russian; also transliterated from Belarusian language, Belarusian as Alyaksand(a)r Ryhoravich Lukashenka;, ; rus, Александр Григорьевич Лукашенко, Aleksandr Grigoryevich Lukashenko, ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲjɪvʲɪtɕ lʊkɐˈʂɛnkə. In English language, English, both transliterations are used, and his first name is often anglicized to ''Alexander''. born 30 August 1954) is a Belarusian politician who has been the first and only president of Belarus since the establishment of the office on 20 July 1994, making him the List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office, longest-sitting European president. Before his political career, Lukashenko worked as director of a state farm (''sovkhoz''), and served in the Soviet Border Troops and in the Soviet Army. Lukashenko continued state ownership of key industries in Belarus after the dissolution of the Sov ...
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Rush Hour
A rush hour (American English, British English) or peak hour (Australian English) is a part of the day during which traffic congestion on roads and crowding on public transport is at its highest. Normally, this happens twice every weekday: once in the morning and once in the afternoon or evening, the times during which the most people commute. The term is often used for a period of peak congestion that may last for more than one hour. The term is very broad, but often refers specifically to private automobile transportation traffic, even when there is a large volume of cars on a road but not many people, or if the volume is normal but there is some disruption of speed. By analogy to vehicular traffic, the term Internet rush hour has been used to describe periods of peak data network usage, resulting in delays and slower delivery of data packets. Definition The name is sometimes a misnomer, as the peak period often lasts more than one hour and the "rush" refers to the volume ...
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Wounded Minsk Blast 2
Wounded may refer to: Film and TV * ''Wounded'' (1977 film), Canadian film * ''Wounded'' (2007 film), Bollywood film * ''Wounded'' (2013 film), Spanish film * ''Wounded'' (play), 2005 stage play collaboratively developed by The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble * "The Wounded" (''Star Trek: The Next Generation''), 1991 episode of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' Music Albums * ''Wounded'' (Enchant album), 1996 album by Enchant * ''Wounded'' (Landmine Marathon album), 2006 album by Landmine Marathon Songs * "Wounded" (song), 1999 song by Third Eye Blind * "Wounded", a song by Nik Kershaw from his album ''To Be Frank'' See also * Wound * Wounded Knee (other) Wounded Knee may refer to Places * Wounded Knee, South Dakota * Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark, a U.S. National Historic Landmark site of the 1890 massacre * Wounded Knee Creek Historical events * Wounded Knee Occupation of 1973 * Wound ...

Wounded Minsk Blast 3
Wounded may refer to: Film and TV * ''Wounded'' (1977 film), Canadian film * ''Wounded'' (2007 film), Bollywood film * ''Wounded'' (2013 film), Spanish film * ''Wounded'' (play), 2005 stage play collaboratively developed by The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble * "The Wounded" (''Star Trek: The Next Generation''), 1991 episode of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' Music Albums * ''Wounded'' (Enchant album), 1996 album by Enchant * ''Wounded'' (Landmine Marathon album), 2006 album by Landmine Marathon Songs * "Wounded" (song), 1999 song by Third Eye Blind * "Wounded", a song by Nik Kershaw from his album ''To Be Frank'' See also * Wound * Wounded Knee (other) Wounded Knee may refer to Places * Wounded Knee, South Dakota * Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark, a U.S. National Historic Landmark site of the 1890 massacre * Wounded Knee Creek Historical events * Wounded Knee Occupation of 1973 * Wound ...

2011 Belarusian Protests
The 2011 Belarusian protests were a series of peaceful protests by demonstrators in Belarus demanding the resignation of current Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, who had been the president of Belarus since 1994. Belarus is an authoritarian state, and in May 2011 presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov was sentenced to five years in prison for taking part in the 2010 presidential election. Lukashenko claimed he won with almost 80% of the vote. Background Much of the protesting fervor stemmed from a rapidly degrading economy that Belarus had been facing in the months before the protests. Protests 8 June *In the first protest actions, at 7 p.m. on Kastrychnitskaya Square in Minsk, about 400 people gathered together in response to an appeal on the Internet to come to the main squares of cities to take part in the silent protest action "Revolution Through the Social Network". At the beginning of the action, the participants stood disorganized in small groups, occupying a ...
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Belarusian Rubel
The ruble ( be, рубель ''rubeĺ’''; Abbreviation: Rbl (plural: Rbls); ISO code: BYN) is the currency of Belarus. It is also known as the rubel, or in Commonwealth English as the rouble. The ruble is subdivided into 100 copecks (sometimes written as ''kopecks''; be, капейка ''kapeyka''). History First ruble, 1992–2000 As a result of the breakup of the supply chain in the former Soviet enterprises, goods started to be bought and sold in the market, often requiring cash settlement. The Belarusian unit of the USSR State Bank had neither the capacity nor the licence to print Soviet banknotes, so the government decided to introduce its own national currency to ease the cash situation. The German word ''Thaler'' ( be, талер), divided into 100 ''Groschen'' ( be, грош) was suggested as the name for a Belarusian currency, but the Communist majority in the Supreme Soviet of Belarus rejected the proposal and stuck to the word ''ruble'' that had been used in Be ...
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2010 Belarusian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 19 December 2010. The elections were had originally been planned for the beginning of 2011. However, the final date was set during an extraordinary session of the National Assembly on 14 September 2010. Of the ten candidates, incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner by the Central Election Commission with 80% of the vote. Andrei Sannikov received the second-highest percentage. After a protest was violently suppressed by riot police the night after the elections, hundreds of protesters and seven presidential candidates were arrested by the KGB, including runner-up Sannikov. Western countries decried the election as a farce and an egregious affront to democracy and human rights. The United States and the European Union called for the release of all imprisoned candidates, but took no further action except a travel ban on Lukashenko. By contrast, countries such as Syria, China, Vietnam, and Russia congratulated t ...
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Hooliganism
Hooliganism is disruptive or unlawful behavior such as rioting, bullying and vandalism, usually in connection with crowds at sporting events. Etymology There are several theories regarding the origin of the word ''hooliganism,'' which is a derivative of the word wiktionary:hooligan#Noun, hooligan. ''The Compact Oxford English Dictionary'' states that the word may have originated from the surname of a rowdy Irish people, Irish family in a music hall song of the 1890s. Clarence Rook, in his 1899 book, ''Hooligan Nights'', wrote that the word came from Patrick Hoolihan (or Hooligan), an Irish Bouncer (doorman), bouncer and thief who lived in London. In 2015, it was said in the BBC Scotland TV programme ''The Secret Life of Midges'' that the English commander-in-chief during the Jacobite rising of 1745, General Wade, misheard the local Scots Gaelic word for midge—''meanbh-chuileag''—and coined the word ''hooligan'' to describe his fury and frustration at the way the tiny bitin ...
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2008 Minsk Bombing
The 2008 Minsk bombing took place just after midnight on 4 July 2008, in Minsk, Belarus and wounded 54 people. The explosion happened near the Hero City monument at a concert to celebrate Belarus' independence. The concert had been attended by Belarus' President, Alexander Lukashenko, who was not hurt and whose officials said was not the target. A second, larger bomb was discovered before the blast. No clear motive for the blast has been revealed. However, Belarusian authorities detained four members of the White Legion, a nationalist group, in the days following the attack. The probable perpetrators of the explosion were detained during the investigation of the 2011 Minsk Metro bombing The 2011 Minsk Metro bombing took place on 11 April 2011 when 15 people were killed and 204 were injured when a bomb exploded within the Minsk Metro, Belarus. The explosion happened at the central Kastryčnickaja (Minsk Metro), Kastryčnickaja s .... References External links BBC news story ...
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