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News on 21.02.2012
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Belarus holds the dubious distinction of being the last dictatorship in Europe; President Alexander Lukashenko, who came to power in 1994, resists economic privatization and controls the state’s media and cultural institutions.
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At the yesterday’s session the organizing committee for celebration of the Freedom Day (March 25) decided that this year the march is to be held along the route the Academy of Science – Bangalore Square, “Nasha Niva” writes.
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The prosecutor's office of Hrodna warned independent journalist Ales Dzyanisau about consequences of working without accreditation.
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Workers of “Spetsavtobaza” firm in Vitsebsk, which specializes in waste disposal, are getting ready for a strike.
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The EU is to add some 25 names to its Syria sanctions list and up to 135 to its Belarus register later this month. But being under an EU ban is not as categorical as it sounds.
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Workers of Babruisk-based Belshina joint stock, who recently joined the Belarusian Independent Trade Union (BITU), say they receive threats labour contracts with them will not be prolonged.
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The annual report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based international human rights organization, has been released today.
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Activists of the movement Smena appeared on Independence Square in Minsk undressed and in masks.
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An agreement with the Russian side for deliveries of the battery has been concluded already.
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The head of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry has not been invited for a meeting of Foreign Affairs ministers of the Visegrad Group and the Eastern Partnership countries, which is to be held in Prague on March 4.
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It is not the first attempt to discredit the pro-opposition Belarusian website.
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An action of solidarity with political prisoners, families of forcefully disappeared Belarusians and victims of the Lukashenka totalitarian regime was held in The Hague on February 19.
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Aleh Stakhayevich, the head of the independent trade union at Granit plant in Mikashevichy, has been fired officially.
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Syarhei Lemyasheuski, Major General, has been released from his position as Air Force and Air Defence Commander.
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The political prisoner refused to sit down at court, saying: “I’ve had enough of sitting.”
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A car with Young Front activists who were going to attend the trial against Syarhei Kavalenka was stopped near Vitsebsk.
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It is absolutely wrong, futile and immoral to lift sanctions against the Belarusian regime, a French political scientist believes.