News on 27.10.2007

27.10.2007

Tractor Plant stops its work 40

14:29, — Economics

Minsk Tractor Plant is to stop its work for a week in November. Aliaksandr Yarashuk, head of Belarusian congress of Democratic trade Unions said it to Charter’97 press center. An order was post up, that the enterprise won’t work from 3 to 11 November. At the same time, the MTP workers didn’t receive the salary for September. The workers were said they wouldn’t be paid fro the idle time – instead of working days they would work Saturdays.

Authorities are afraid of Kastus Kalinouski

14:00, — Politics

October 27, on the eve of the Day of commemoration of the passed, the police twice detained the bus with democratic activists going from Minsk to the town of Svislatch, to visit the tomb of hero of the Belarusian national liberation movement Kastus Kalinouski. The bus was stopped in Dziarzhynsk and Baranavichy. Deputy leaders of the Belarusian People’s Front (BPF) Party Viktar Ivashkevich and Yury Khadyka were among the detained democrats.