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News on 26.06.2009
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17:09 Gazprom threatens Belarus to take to court and to cut gas deliveries (Updated) 36
The Russian company insists that Belarusian authorities must pay $244 million debt.
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16:23 Belarusian oppositionists announce mass hunger strike 1
By the hunger strike victims of Lukashenka’s regime are trying to attract attention of the world to the situation in Belarus.
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14:51 Students decided to rebut BRSM 1
The civil initiative Student Council starts a campaign against forceful enrolling students in the pro-governmental Belarusian Republican Union of the Youth (BRSM).
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14:15 Lukashenka starts to reshuffle Council of Ministers 23
The Belarusian leader has considered the question of personnel and adopted a decision to appoint a number of new ministers.
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13:46 Belarusian dictator to meet with US congressmen 3
Representatives of the US Congress are to visit Belarus as part of their visit to the Baltic and Balkan states.
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11:34 Syamashka: “Russians began to press on us” 28
Russia doesn’t agree to back purchases of Belarusian equipment and demands to pay for gas in full.
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11:30 300-dollar fine for demand to release political prisoners 1
On June 24, the administration of the Frunzenski district of Minsk heard a report in relation to Maksim Serhiets, an activist of the civil campaign “European Belarus”.
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10:16
Bankrupt politicians must quit
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The crisis will make Belarusians act more decisively, stated the leader of the civil campaign “European Belarus” Andrei Sannikov in an interview to the Charter’97 press-centre.
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9:54 Portrait of Lukashenka to be made in Poland of carrots, beets, and radishes 20
The celebration of the 440th anniversary of signing the Union of Lublin will be held in Lublin on July 1.
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9:48 “Young Front” picketed Iranian Embassy in Minsk (Photo) 3
On June 25, “Young Front” activists came to the building of the Iranian embassy with a poster “Freedom to Iran!”
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9:01 Belarusian bicycle world’s champion Zinaida Stahurskaya died during training 32
A Belarusian bicycle racer died run over by a Russian Honda near Vitsebsk on June 25.
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9:00 Autukhovich’s detention may be extended 6
The detention may be extended because a new criminal case was instigated against the political prisoner on hunger strike.