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March 22, 2006. Minsk, Belarus. -- The pro-democracy rally continued in Minsk despite a call from one of the two democratic candidates, Mr Kozulin, to leave and come back on March 25, which the protesters overwhealmingly ignored.

Today's rally gathered some 5,000 protesters calling for a re-run of the rigged presidential eleciton in Belarus. Alexander Milinkevich talked to the protesters. A concert was organized for the protesters. The morale of the protesters is high.

The proof of a total election fraud in all parts of the country has been collected and delivered to the OCSE mission and other international observers. A video exposing an election fraud instance has been circulating on the Internet.

The police continues to detain people and otherwise preventing a successful rally.

One of the non-partisan civic organization, the Third Way, called for help to the protesters to be delivered as soon as possible (http://3dway.org/articles/2/3/2306):

Dear Friends!

Dear Belarusians and those sympathetic to our struggle for the Belarusian Democracy!

The protesters on the Kastrychnitska Place need your help!

They need it NOW.

The Third Way – Belarus community would like to ask you on behalf of our friends who are on the square with other protesters for the third consecutive day.

We have not appeal to anyone before, but today we REALLY need your support.

Today we need for the protesters:

- Hiegenics incl. bio-toilets,

- power generators (at least 2 kWatt)

- flash lights for night shifts, 500 pieces,

- projector lamps,

- 1 to 5 Internet connections: prepaid CDMA-2000(CDMA-450) cell phones,

- a secondhand notebook,

- warm clothes – various.

Besides that, the neighbors help the protestors with medicines and food, but having a small stock of those will be very useful.

How to help?

- buy yourself and bring to the Kastrychmitska Square ,

- help financially by donating to us, specifically and solely for supporting the protest. (by credit cards, bank transfer or cash).

Please don’t forget that the lag between transferring donations and actual delivery could be 2-6 hours or even a day!!

If you need advice on the logistics of getting food and clothes to the protesters, please write us at

office@3-way.info, judi@3dway.org , or call at +1-312-239-06-12 in emergency.

In order to deliver donations to the protesters, you may do it by your credit card or wire transfer, or by other means convenient. PLEASE VISIT http://3dway.org/about/english/donations to donate by CREDIT CARD.

If you would like to help the protesters, please write to us; so that we could expedite your kind help as soon as possible, at office@3-way.info, judi@3dway.org .

Sincerely ,

Third Way – Belarus ,

Michael Timokhov ,

Field coordinator .