siebold supposing there from washington d.c. interests is it's out of position the to speak honestly kind of is quitting on the international community to do more to help the pro-democracy movement in her country she's in austria for told with the government they and the organization for security and cooperation in europe protests of an os just presidential election have died down but hundreds of opponents of. alexandre because remain in prison. for more conexant the kolesnikov called the last letter from his daughter maria one and a half months ago. she sente from prison. kolesnik over as one of the leaders of the mass protests in belarus in jail since september she writes she's doing well triggering some optimism in her father. the protests haven't disappeared just on ice at the moment. but certain events could lead to them starting again at any time. this is minsk today the rusian capital is clean and eerily quiet there's no reminder of the events of 8 months ago. as many as 200000 people took to the streets to protest allega