Syarhey Kalyakin, leader of the Belarusian Party of Communists, and other prominent members of the party in opposition to Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s government laid flowers at the obelisk in Minsk’s downtown Victory Square on May 9 on the occasion of the 64th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-45 Great Patriotic War, which is celebrated in Belarus as Victory Day.
