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Lukashenka has no future
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8.05, 10:35 — Politics
Volha Kazulina has returned after a meeting with her father in prison. She has passed an answer of her father, political prisoner, to offensive comments of Alyaksandr Lukashenka during his annual address. Alyaksandr Kazulin has been sentenced to 5.5 years of a colony for organizing protest rallies against rigged presidential election results.
Jonathan Moore: Sanctions against other state-controlled Belarusian enterprises are possible
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8.05, 18:35 — Politics
US Charge d’Affaires in Belarus Jonathan Moore doesn’t exclude his country will impose additional sanctions against Belarusian enterprises.
International package delivery companies FedEx and UPS do not work in Belarus
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8.05, 17:44 — Society
International companies UPS, FedEX, TNT and DHL are not parcel carriers at the territory of Belarus. Such a poster emerged in the National airport “Minsk”.
Minsk city executive committee banned action in memory of Yury Zakharanka
7.05, 12:56 — Politics
Svyatlana, widow of kidnapped ORT TV channel operator Zmitser Zavadsky, received a refuse from the deputy head of the Minsk city executive committee to her application on holding a picket in Minsk on 7 May, dedicated to the 9th anniversary of disappearance of General Yury Zakharanka.
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Europe tired of valueless promises of Belarusian authorities
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18:34, — Politics
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU’s Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, said she was deeply disappointed with the latest events in Belarus.
Vyachaslau Siuchyk: “Cattle is kept in better conditions than inmates in Staryja Darohi prison”
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15:48, — Politics
On May 8 after a 15 days arrest in a detention facility in the town of Staryja Darohi (Minsk district) a democratic activist Vyachaslau Siuchyk was released. “Cattle are kept in better conditions than inmates in Staryja Darohi prison. But the most awful thing is that these a standard conditions for every prison in Belarusian regional capital,” told the politician to the Charter’97 press-center.
Freedom for Kazulin! (Photo, video)
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15:31, — Politics
Activists of the civil campaign “European Belarus” hung out a big banner “Freedom for Kazulin!” in the Minsk center, on the bridge above Nyamiha Street.
Editor of an oppositional newspaper to be locked up in mental hospital?
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14:29, — Politics
The head of the psychoneurologic department of Slonim central district hospital received a letter signed by the head of the local branch of the KGB Alyaksandr Mazalkou with an order to check the editor-in-chief of an independent newspaper “Gazeta Slonimskaya: Viktar Valadashchuk and his relatives, whether they are listed in databases of psychoneurologic and narcological dispensaries.
Amnesty International calls to support Emanuel Zeltser, thrown to KGB jail
13:27, — Politics
Human rights organisation Amnesty International organises an action of support of American lawyer Emanuel Zeltser.
Pavel Sharamet: “Lukashenka has decided to sell Belarus to Russia”
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9:58, — Politics
On April 26 a DDOS-attack against the web-source “Belarusian partisan” started. The server of the site was attacked from 69 addresses in Paraguay, Amsterdam and South-Eastern Asia. On the same day the same problems were experienced by web-pages of Radio Svaboda and Charter’97.
Prices are European. But what about salaries and pensions?
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9:47, — Economics
Alyaksandr Lukashenka touched a problem of prices during his visit to the Hrodna region. He said agricultural products prices would grow.
“Oppositional” flowers near KGB (Photo)
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9:35, — Politics
Minsk dwellers can watch the results of an “ideological diversion” for some days. White and red tulips blossom near the entrance to the State Security Committee of Belarus (KGB) on Independence Avenue.
Is even one democratic deputy able to control executive authority?
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9:00, — Politics
United democratic forces candidates for parliamentary deputies try to regain public control over the executive authority. It is a keynote of the address to nation from democratic candidates for deputies of the “house of representatives,” which draft was approved on the session of the Presidium of the Political Council of the United Democratic Forces (UDF).
Deputy assistant secretary at the US Department of State David Merkel: “New sanctions against Belarusian government are possible”
18:11, — Politics
David Merkel, deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs at the US Department of State said on an interview to Radio Svaboda that Washington can expand sanctions already implemented against the Belarusian regime because of massive violation of human rights.
Artist Pushkin fined for celebration BNR anniversary under national and European flags (Photo)
17:06, — Politics
A warning and fine of 25 basic unit (875 000 rubles) was a judgement delivered by the Krupki district court to artist Ales Pushkin.
Belarusians hang out banners on high-risers and national flags – on electrical wires (Photo)
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16:03, — Politics
On 3 May activists of the civil campaign “European Belarus” hung out national flags and banners calling to release political prisoners Alyaksandr Kazulin, Andrei Kim and Syarhei Parsyukevich in the Minsk city district Zakhad.
Lawyer Dzmitry Harachka: Emanuel Zeltser changed greatly in prison
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15:45, — Politics
Lawyer Dzmitry Harachka visited US citizen Emanuel Zeltser in the Belarusian KGB jail. As the lawyer told to the Charter’97 press center, his client continued to complain about health problems and about the fact he is not given necessary medicines.
Milinkevich meets with French foreign minister (Photo)
14:00, — Politics
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on May 5 met with visiting Belarusian opposition politician Alyaksandr Milinkevich to discuss the situation in Belarus, BelaPAN said.
Authorities in Brest ban opposition activists from demonstrating on anniversary of Yury Zakharanka’s disappearance
13:58, — Politics
The Brest City Executive Committee has denied permission for a rally that would mark nine years since the disappearance of opposition politician Yury Zakharanka.
KGB and Belarusian TV spoke about “spies” again
12:42, — Politics
Valer Nadtachaeu, head of public relations and information center of the KGB, told the Belarusian TV on Sunday that members of spy ring operating in the country headed by Kurt Finley, allegedly illegally took videos and photographs of Belarusian citizens, and watched militia officers.
Zmitser Bandarenka: “Response to repressions is boycott”
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12:23, — Politics
“The regime has given up on dialogue and democratization by unleashing a real terror against political opposition and the civil society. That is why the democratic forces are to start realization of a different strategy,” believes the coordinator of the Charter’97 Zmitser Bandarenka.
White-red-white flag above militiamen’s house (Photo)
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11:01, — Politics
A banner with text “I love Belarus!” and national white-red-white flags appeared in Asipovichy town on Tuesday. A white-red-white flag was hung out even above the house, where militia officers live.
EU protests against expelling US diplomats from Belarus
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10:46, — Politics
The European Union called on Belarus to reconsider the decision on expelling American diplomats.
Kazulin won’t go to law against Lukashenka
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8:29, — Politics
Political prisoner Alyaksandr Kazulin replied to the statements by Alyaksandr Lukashenka about him, he said in his annual address to the “parliament.”
Alyaksandr Kazulin has meeting with his daughters on 3 May 2008
12:26, — Politics
Former presidential candidate Alyaksandr Kazulin has a meeting in the penal colony Vitsba-3 with his daughters Volha and Yulya on 3 May.
Israeli ambassador surprised that Belarusian militia can’t find and punish fascists
12:10, — Politics
Israeli ambassador to Belarus Zeev Ben-Arie doesn’t find it necessary to compare quantitatively facts of display of anti-Semitism in Belarus and the neighbouring countries, paying attention that such cases should be criticised and investigated more effectively.
Will US demand Belarus to recall its diplomats before May 16?
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11:42, — Politics
The US has officially warned Belarus, that Belarusian Embassy in Washington and the consulate general in New York can be closed, like the US Embassy in Minsk.
According to militia, fascist swastika is not “disturbance of public peace”
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11:26, — Politics
The office of the Belarusian Popular Front party (BPF) received an order to dismiss criminal complaint “on the facts on window damage and drawing inscriptions on office’s door.”
Baranavichy activists tried for attempt to mark Day of Europe in Minsk
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10:23, — Politics
Yaraslau Hryshchenya, leader of the Baranavichy Young Front, activist Artsyom Lastavetski and Ales Pershak, detained ahead of Day of Europe, had administrative trials in Baranavichy on 2 May.
Alena Zakharanka: “We know when father was abducted, but we do not know when and how he died…”
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9:05, — Politics
9 years ago, on May 7, 1999 a former Interior Minister of Belarus Yury Zakharanka was forcibly abducted not far from his house.
American diplomats leaving Belarus (Video)
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8:40, — Politics
11 American diplomats are to leave Belarus on 3 May before noon. Four diplomats including US Charge d’Affaires Jonathan Moore, will remain in Minsk. On 30 April Jonathan Moore was given a list of US diplomats who had been declared persona non grata in Belarus and must leave the country within 72 hours.
Student taken to court from state exam
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17:10, — Politics
Marya Tulzhankova, Homel activist of the youth democratic movement, was released on 2 May after 7-day arrest.
Zhana Litvina: “Some call it pogrom of independent journalism”
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16:19, — Politics
In the run-up to the World Press Freedom Day on May 3 at the web-site of the Belarusian Association of Journalists an on-line press-conference was held with the organization’s chairperson Zhana Litvina and her assistant Andrei Bastunets.
Prisoners of dilapidating “Valadarka”: Yakub Kolas, Mikhail Marynich, Alyaksandr Kazulin, Andrei Kim (Photo)
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14:00, — Society
The pretrial detention centre in Valadarski Street in Minsk continues to dilapidate. At different times many political prisoners were serving term there, from the classics Yakub Kolas, among the last being Alyaksandr Kazulin and Andrei Kim.
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