20 August 2001span> MINSK, 19 August (Racyja)–The youth opposition organization Malady Front has marked the 10th anniversary of a failed coup by hardline communists in Moscow by demonstrating in front of the KGB building in Minsk, carrying portraits of missing Belarusian political figures. [Editor’s note: on 19 August 1991, hardliners opposed to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s reform attempts detained him […]

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