Internet in Belarus

A typesetter (a remote employee from Belarus) writes to ICQ:

*** (22:58:18 19/12/2010)
Egor, hello

*** (22:58:41 12/19/2010)
If you're going to send something to the post office, it's useless) We have elections here

*** (22:59:06 12/19/2010)
And inform everyone of the possibilities from work, so that they can write in ICQ-Skype
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*** (22:59:16 12/19/2010)
I do not have access to gmail.com

What does it mean? Are they completely crazy there?

UPD Began to understand the situation. Live Twitter broadcast of events around the presidential elections in Belarus on the hashtag #electby