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News on 30.06.2011
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Belarusian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release anyone being held merely for taking part in peaceful “silent” protests, Amnesty International said today after hundreds were arrested around the country yesterday.
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Foreign Minister Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis strongly condemns the actions of Belarusian authorities when a Latvian journalist Uģis Lībietis was temporarily detained in Minsk.
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Moscow and Minsk have so far failed to reach an agreement on a new price formula for Russian gas supplies to Belarus, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said on Thursday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for solidarity with protesters in Belarus, a day after Minsk detained some 150 people demonstrating against the regime and a worsening economic crisis.
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Belarusian opposition politicians held a meeting with Polish Foreign Minister and EU Commissioner in Warsaw.
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Some dozens of BRSM members were ordered to gather in the city centre, but the number of participants of silent protests was ten times as much.
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The Homel municipal authorities did their best to prevent the street action: Lenin Square was cordoned off as well as Kiryla Turauski park.
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to raise a question about democracy in Belarus during her visit to Vilnius from June 30 to July 1.
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People were applauding all their way.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that emotions should not interfere with Russia-Belarus relations.
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An activist of European Belarus civil campaign detained at the silent protest action has been thrown behind bars on accusation of hooliganism.
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They cowardly attack people in groups, not introducing themselves or showing ID cards.
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The world's political and public figures sent an open letter to US President Barack Obama.
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The Belarusian state property committee plans to put the government’s 51% stake in mobile operator MTS Belarus up for sale at an action in 2011, committee official Anna Korniyevich told reporters Thursday.
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Poland takes over the EU presidency on July 1, but its start was marked by domestic problems for the Polish diplomatic mission in Belarus.
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The conditions that created the Arab Spring are just as present in the former Soviet Union.
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Silent protest actions were held on June 29 not only in Belarusian regional centres, but also in less populated towns.
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Foreign journalists face more and more cruel treatment in Minsk.