A worker checks mushroom beds at a private farm located inside hangars of a former Soviet missile base in Minoity, Belarus, Dec. 4, 2012. The farm cultivates and sells about 10 tons of oyster mushrooms, or Veshenka mushrooms, each month in Belarus and neighboring countries. The mushrooms cost 23,000 Belarusian roubles ($2.70) per kilogram.

A worker gathers mushrooms from mushroom beds at a private farm located inside hangars of a former Soviet missile base in Minoity, Belarus, Dec. 4.

A worker pulls a palette stacked with mushroom beds at a private farm located inside hangars of a former Soviet missile base in Minoity, Belarus, Dec. 4.

A worker closes the door of a hangar at a private farm in a former Soviet missile base in Minoity, Belarus, Dec. 4.

Police in plain-clothes detain protesters at Independence square in Minsk, Belarus, on November 7. Several dozen people had gathered in Minsk on Monday to mark Revolution Day, the official public holiday commemorating the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

A rainbow is seen near the village of Stankovo, some 30 km west of Minsk, Belarus, on Aug. 14.

Two women run along a field while a rainbow stretches across the sky in the background near the village of Stankovo, Belarus, Aug. 14.

Belarussian opposition activist Pavel Severinets is guarded by policemen during a court hearing in Minsk on May 11. Severinets appeared in court on Wednesday as trials of activists arrested on December 19 for rallying against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko continue.

A wounded blast victim is brought by rescuers to an ambulance in Minsk, Belarus, on Monday, April 11, 2011. An explosion tore through a subway station in the Belarusian capital during evening rush hour Monday, and an official in the presidential administration said there were fatalities.

A wounded blast victim speaks on a cell phone at Oktyabrskaya subway station in Minsk, Belarus, on Monday, April 11, 2011. An explosion tore through a subway station in the Belarusian capital during evening rush hour Monday, and an official in the presidential administration said there were fatalities.

A riot policeman chases an opposition protester during a rally denouncing the results of presidential elections in central Minsk, Dec. 19, 2010. Police in Belarus beat demonstrators with batons and rounded up opposition leaders in a violent crackdown after an election on Sunday that was certain to return President Alexander Lukashenko for a fourth term.

A group of people is surrounded by riot police during an opposition rally in Minsk early on Dec. 20, 2010. Belarus police arrested hundreds of protestors as they used force to break up a mass demonstration against the expected re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko in disputed polls on Sunday.

A woman tries to hear her relative, who is being held in a police bus for demonstrating, near a detention center in Minsk, Dec. 20, 2010. At least seven election candidates and hundreds of opposition demonstrators were being held on Monday after police cracked down on a protest against the re-election of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.

Presidential candidate Vladimir Neklyayev lies on a street after he was beaten during a rally in Minsk, Dec. 19. Belarus police broke up a march by the opposition in the capital Minsk on Sunday and beat its leader Neklyayev, a Reuters eyewitness said.

Protesters rally as they denounce Belarus presidential election saying it was falsified in the capital, Minsk, Dec. 19. Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus' authoritarian leader, a frequent antagonist of both Russia and the West, seeks a fourth term in Sunday's elections, and his opponents claim he's prepared to commit fraud to get it.

A member of a local electoral commission walks with a ballot box toward the village of Selets, some 31 miles from Minsk, Belarus, to give an opportunity to elderly and sick people to vote in the presidential election, Dec. 19. According to media reports, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has governed the country almost unchallenged since 1994. More than 1,000 international observers led by a 490-member delegation from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe were Belarus to monitor the vote. More than 15,000 Belarusian vote monitors were on hand as well. Lukashenko, a former collective farm boss, has vowed he would defeat his nine challengers without tampering with the electoral process.

A woman signs a form to receive a ballot at her home during presidential elections in the village of Korolev Stan, 19 miles northeast of Minsk, Dec. 19. Voting got under way on Sunday in the former Soviet republic of Belarus in an election certain to extend strongman Alexander Lukashenko's 16-year stay in power for five more years.

An elderly woman drops her ballot as she votes during president elections in Selets, Dec. 19.