Youth in Minsk want street to be named after disappeared opposition member

The Young Democrats youth group has filed an application with the Minsk City Hall asking to name one of the capital's streets after Belarus's former interior minister Yury Zakharanka. He went missing in May 1999, and his fate has remained uknown up to now. According to Young Democrats leader Mikhail Pashkevich, similar applications would be filed regarding the names of the other high-profile disappeared personalities, including politician Viktar Hanchar, businessman Anatol Krasouski and journalist Dzmitry Zavadski, reports the Belapan news agency.

In an earlier development, another youth pressuer group Malady Front sought to rename (communist hero's) Uborevich Street after a young political prisoner, Arthur Finkevich.