The man doesn’t doubt about the results of the medical expertise: “When we put the skis on and run from one square to another the people will see who is sick and who’s healthy.”

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The banishment of the OSCE AMG head Hans-Georg Wieck, so often prophesized by the Belarusian media, can provoke severance of Belarus’ diplomatic relations with EU and USA. One of the most likely follow-ups to the deportation will be the recall of all European ambassadors, reports “BDG”.

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Lukashenko’s and Aleksij’s arrival to Brest brought numerous problems to local residents. On June 23 the traffic in Brest streets was regularly blocked. They divided the city into two isolated parts and no one could get from one into another. June 24, with the escort heading for Pinsk, on the Kobrin-Gomel motorway police placed their patrols, which didn’t allow people to get to the main highway from the adjacent roads. In the vicinity of Drogichin the cars were stopped at intersections, not allowed to move further into to Brest.

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“My worst fears came true today. Social tensions, confrontation, manhunt, fear and apathy – the foundations of these revealed diseases were laid long ago. And they are to be dealt with in first turn,” – said in an exclusive interview to “Nasha Svaboda” potential runner for the president of Belarus, acting chair of the Federation of trade unions of Belarus Vladimir Goncharik. Read the full text of the interview on our site.

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Among its greatest merits the regime names the absence of unemployment in Belarus. However, statistically it is not so at all. According to official data by January 1, 1994 66,3 thousands were registered at the state bureau for employment. In 2001 their number exceeded 100 thousand, which is 1,5 times rise or more.

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In the first quarter of 2001 over 19% of all Novopolotsk-based companies incurred losses. The town takes the lead on the matter in the whole of Vitebsk region. If by end last year 70 enterprises of all forms of ownership were operating at a loss, by April 1 their number rose to 125.

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Over the past four years the Mogilev region economy suffered from severe fall in profitability level. This is also true of this year. According to statistical data, the profitability of sold goods decreased from 2,8% in January-March 2000 to 0,9% in January-March 2001.

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Following the visa regime introduction by Poles the Brest town will be hit by the rocketing unemployment, assumes an anonymous official from the local center for employment. According to latest data, there are 3 thousand officially jobless people in Brest, which is slightly over 1,5% of the able-bodied population, reports BelaPAN.

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Yesterday the Yugoslav government’s ruling, making it possible to hand over Slobodan Milosevic and his accomplices to the Hague Tribunal, came into legal force. Former dictator is wanted on war crimes charges.

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During the opening of the BSU lyceum Alexander Lukashenko rebuked the university leadership that only some 4% of students are willing to support him at the upcoming elections. He also complained about the professors, who openly manifest their dissatisfaction with small salaries, thus agitating their students against him, learnt the initiative group for nominating Mikhail Chigir as candidate for the presidency.

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“We, the activists of the youth movement ZUBR, declare that we will no longer tolerate this. We can’t silently endure how the crazed dictator mocks at our country, our people and our loved ones. We will not let the mosaic psycho and his henchmen make fun of us. We won’t allow anyone offend the best representatives of our nation. We, the youth of Belarus, will use all means available to liberate Valery Schukin. We will swap him for Lukashenko!” – declared the ZUBR resistance movement following the arrest of a journalist and human rights defender Valery Schukin.

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“The army will vote against Lukashenko,” – BelaPAN quotes one of the nominees, former Defense Minister of Belarus general Pavel Kozlovsky as saying. Kozlovsky arrived in Brest on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

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Neo-fascist mobs beat up two underage female activists of the ZUBR youth movement June 21 night in Borisov. Thirty skinheads attacked Tatyana and Marina Yasuk under the command of a masked military. The girls were ambushed in the Gagarina street, in vicinity of the Medical University dorm and the central Borisov stadium.

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Alexander Lukashenko doesn’t welcome the intentions of Natalya Masherova and Mikhail Marinich to run for the president. “I fostered them with my our arms, visited them, helped and supported,” – Lukashenko’s voice sounded offended: “Masherova’s family was forsaken, nobody went there. Remember, after the presidential elections I visited them and always supported. I did so much to get this person elected into the parliament and now they stab me in the back.”

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By early June the salary indebtedness in Belarus reached 11,9 billion rubles (8,7mln US dollars). According to the Ministry of statistics and analysis, it is 39,5% more than in early May. The greatest debt hit the agricultural sphere, as it has always been the case. In May it leaped by 37,5% and now amounts to 8,4bln rubles, which is 70,6% of the overall debt. 188,7 thousand persons failed to get their monies in full size. The industrial companies owe their employees 2,5bln rubles. The salary growth occurred in all regions, except Vitebsk and Minsk.

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In the next 1,5 years Russia will install the new radar station near Baranovichi town for surveillance over air and space in Belarus, reports SPB-TASS. The news agency cites the commander-in-chief of the space troops, colonel-general Anatoly Perminov, who announced the news at the recent round table in Petersburg.

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