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  • 17:55 Minsk city authorities ban commemorative ceremony at memorial to Soviet soldiers killed in Afghanistan

    The Minsk City Executive Committee has not granted permission for a commemorative ceremony at a memorial to Soviet soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

  • Counsellor of the European Commission insists on release of political prisoners
    15:59 Counsellor of the European Commission insists on release of political prisoners
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    “All 12 proposals of the European Union are principal for us. We can say that the most politically sensitive question is one of the release of the political prisoners”, - Jean-Eric Holzapfel, Counsellor of the European Commission’s representative office in Ukraine and Belarus said in the interview to Euroradio. It should be reminded that recently Aliaksandr Lukashenka permitted to open the EC’s representative office in Belarus and now the negotiations on this issue are held.

  • 14:41 Belarusian officials do not want to discuss human rights issues

    Souhayr Belhassen, President of the International Federation for Human Rights has been in Minsk for the third day. She declared that the situation with the human right in Belarus is the tightest in the region. The aim of her mission is to support the civil society in Belarus and study the conditions of detention and cases of cruel attitude towards the people in custody.

  • Sovetskaya Belorussiya chief editor says that Lukashenka’s remarks about Jews were a joke
    13:46 Sovetskaya Belorussiya chief editor says that Lukashenka’s remarks about Jews were a joke
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    Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s recent remarks about Jews in Babruysk were nothing but a joke, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted Pavel Yakubovich, editor in chief of the largest government-controlled newspaper Sovetskaya Belorussiya, as saying on Tuesday.

  • Youth leader Artur Finkevich under threat of imprisonment
    13:42 Youth leader Artur Finkevich under threat of imprisonment

    Mahilou Prosecutor’s Office has entered a new criminal case against Artur Finkevich, political prisoner, the organization “Young Front” activist – for violation of the regime during the term of serving punishment. Artur has been serving his punishment for two years in Mahilou commandant’s office for political graffiti he had made during the presidential election campaign. He was isolated 26 October when 1.5 months left before his term was out. Now prison threatens Artur.

  • One day of Free Theatre’s life how Swedish sees it (VIDEO)
    12:57 One day of Free Theatre’s life how Swedish sees it (VIDEO)

    Swedish film director Thomas Nordenstadt has made a 7-minutes film about Belarusian Free Theatre. The director is interested in everything connected with theatre, but in the first turn –in Belarus itself and the life of its people…

  • Lukashenka met with Russian oligarchs too often
    11:00 Lukashenka met with Russian oligarchs too often

    Only within last week Lukashenka has met with three oligarchs – two Russian ones (Igor Makarov and Vladimir Yevtushenkov) and a Chinese one (He Xiangjian). The personal meetings of Lukashenka with businessmen of such rank have never been so intensive since 2002, when he had to work off his another presidential term for the Russian businessmen.