News on 1.02.2012

1.02.2012

Calls for Belarus to commute death sentences 12

17:03, — Politics

Multiple problems have been identified in the case against the two young men accused of the terror attacks in Minsk in 2011.

FEMEN performance in Zurich: No to Ice Hockey World Championship in Belarus (Photo) 86

16:34, — Politics

FEMEN activists carried out a performance near the Ice Hockey International Federation headquarters in Zurich on February 1.

Picket in support of Belarusian political prisoners organized in Stockholm

16:11, — Politics

It was organized by human rights organizations and the Swedish Writers' Union.

Deficit of foreign trade in goods totaled $5,453 million last year

14:54, — Economics

Belarus had a $5,453-million deficit of foreign trade in goods in 2011 compared with $9,600.9 million the previous year, according to the National Statistics Committee (Belstat).

BCD offers to call all-Belarusian people’s assembly

14:49, — Politics

The Belarusian Christian Democracy has extended a statement about its position that participation in the parliamentary election” is impossible as long as there are political prisoners.

Rumas: We need to raise prices 74

14:45, — Economics

Otherwise deficit at the consumer market cannot be avoided.

Lukashenka’s holiday has dragged on 98

14:19, — Politics

The “short-term” vacation of the dictator lasts for two weeks already.

Kick-ass as strategy of the opposition 99

13:48, Iryna Khalip — Politics

Representatives of the progressive Belarusian community have been discussing the same theme for the second day.

Another attempt to put Sannikov’s jailers on trial 6

13:06, — Politics

Sannikov’s lawyers have filed a lawsuit in court for preventing them to access their client.

Ales Byalyatski: Prison is the best place in bad times 5

12:59, — Politics

The head of Viasna human rights centre waits for the transfer to a penal colony.

Andrei Nikalayeu stops hunger strike at Khalip’s request

12:21, — Politics

Andrei Nikalayeu stopped his hunger strike after Iryna Khalip appealed to him asking to end the strike.

We are sick and tired!

12:19, — Politics

Frankly speaking, it is absolutely irrelevant who and whom and why had given a kick today. It is not interesting. We are sick and tired of all that.

Ivashkevich calls to active “elections” boycotting 19

11:56, — Politics

“The boycott of the parliamentary elections should be active. It can be carried out in several ways,” coordinator of Belarusian Movement Viktar Ivashkevich thinks.

Former Nigerian militants to come to Minsk to study

11:38, — society

The government of Nigeria sent 146 former Niger Delta militants for studies to Belarus and South Africa on January 30.

Four Belarusians arrested on suspicion of stealing $1.8 million in Internet scam 18

11:15, — crime

Four Belarusians are being investigated on suspicion of stealing money from more than 20,000 people in an Internet scam using their credit card details.

Government recommends educational institutions to raise tuition fees by no more than 29 percent in February 24

9:28, — society

The Belarusian Ministry of Education has recommended educational institutions to raise their tuition fees by no more than 29 percent in February.