Orsha

War’s going wonderfully: Bobruysk, Mogilev and Orsha have fallen, lots of prisoners.

Gen. Vitalijus Vaiksnoras, Lithuania’s second-ranking officer, is a huge painting of the Battle of Orsha — from 1514 — when a force of 30,000 Lithuanians and Poles defeated 80,000 Russians.

The human rights center Vesna reported the detentions in Orsha, where the day’s largest protest attracted about 1,000 people.

Sunday’s protests in Orsha, Babruysk, Brest and Rahachow were the latest in an unusual wave of demonstrations that have occurred for weeks in the authoritarian country, focusing on a law that fines unemployed people $250 if they don’t register with state labor exchanges.

Smolensk, Orsha, and Vityebsk were taken in the opening campaign, as were Vilno, Kovno, and Grodno in the following summer.