Businessman from Pinsk: I will defend my “sponger”-neighbours

“It's not my concern” - everybody thinks so until the dictatorship begins to get into his personal life.

Businessman from Pinsk wrote to charter97.org about the “creative” proposals of the Belarusian authorities regarding “social parasites”.

he says.

Officials invent sophisticated methods to get money from “social parasites”, whose total number is about 140,000. They propose to jail them, deprive of free education and medical services and impose a $1,000 tax for all adults who don't pay taxes for more than 6 months.