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240 Law Violations By Lukashenko’s Crew
11:19, 27/07/2001
Civil initiative “Civic observation” recorded 240 election law violations in the collection of signatures during the pre-election campaign in Belarus. The chief physician of a psychiatric clinic of Gomel region took 70 signatures in favor of Lukashenko from his patients. In some schools of Belarus the teachers weren’t let leave on vacations until they supplied at least 90 gathered signatures in Lukashenko’s support. 
11:18, 27/07/2001
 Áåëàðóñè îáðàçîâàíî 6 753 ó÷àñòêîâûõ êîìèññèé ïî âûáîðàì ïðåçèäåíòà Áåëàðóñè. Êàê ñîîáùèëè ÁÅËÒÀ â Öåíòðèçáèðêîìå, â èõ ñîñòàâ âîøëî 78 407 ïðåäñòàâèòåëåé îò ïîëèòè÷åñêèõ ïàðòèé, äðóãèõ îáùåñòâåííûõ îðãàíèçàöèé, òðóäîâûõ êîëëåêòèâîâ, èñïîëíèòåëüíûõ îðãàíîâ, ãðàæäàíå, âûäâèíóòûå ïóòåì ïîäà÷è çàÿâëåíèé. Îò ïîëèòè÷åñêèõ ïàðòèé, äðóãèõ îáùåñòâåííûõ îáúåäèíåíèé â ÷àñòíîñòè â ñîñòàâ ó÷àñòêîâûõ êîìèññèé âêëþ÷åíî 3 473 ÷åëîâåêà.
11:17, 27/07/2001, “Narodnaya Volya”
Former police chief, major-general Nikolai Lopatik laconically reported last November to the Interior Minister Vladimir Naumov about the order, released by current prosecutor general Sheiman, to annihilate Yuri Zakharenko, Viktor Gonchar and Anatoly Krasovsky. Up to the last moment the document was sealed with a “top secret” stamp.
11:16, 27/07/2001
The Committee for state control continues the large-scale examination of the financial activities of the Federation of trade unions of Belarus, which opened on July 17. They study both the Federation’s performance and that of the structures, which are part of it.
11:15, 27/07/2001
“I was faced with a choice: either voluntary demise or release from custody if I give the investigators the confession, which they require,” – reads the letter of the first pro-rector of the Gomel State Institute of Medicine Evgeny Sokolovsky, which he managed to pass outside the Gomel prison bars, reports BDG.
Detained For 10 Days Sergey Bakhun Released Ahead Of Time
11:14, 27/07/2001
The leader of the Brest division of the Youth Front was released on July 27, one day before his term ended. S.Bakhun participated in protest rally on December 10, 2000 on the day when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. The court of the Leninsky district claimed the action was unauthorized, and fined the participants.
11:10, 27/07/2001
A significant protest on Independence Day was held in Minsk by ZUBR resistance movement. At 12 o’clock on the Victory Square out of the blue several hundreds of guys with ZUBR logo T-shirts showed. They formed up in two lines along the Eternal Fire and laid white-red-white wreaths and many other flowers to the monument dedicated to the liberation of Belarus from fascist invaders. A column of five hundred ZUBRs headed down the sidewalks towards the Oktyabrskaya Square. After the police blocked their way, ZUBRs sat on the ground and took out photographs of the renowned figures disappeared in Belarus. During the protest rally about two dozens of people were detained. Photos
11:09, 27/07/2001
Big protest was launched by the ZUBR resistance on the Independence Day in Minsk. At 12 there all of a sudden showed up hundreds of young men in ZUBR T-shirts. Having lined up in two rows along the eternal fire the activists laid white-red-white bouquet and many other flowers to the monument, commemorating the nation’s liberation from NAZI occupation. Afterwards a few dozen new recruits were accepted as ZUBR members, swearing an oath of allegiance to Belarus. From there the 500-strong procession moved out along the sidewalks towards the Oktyabrskaya square. When they approached the square, some plain-clothed cops attempted to initiate a big fight.
11:08, 27/07/2001
The press-conference of a unique candidate of the united democratic opposition Vladimir Goncharik and members of the democratic “five” – Sergei Kalyakin, Pavel Kozlovsky and Mikhail Chigir – was held today in Minsk. Vladimir Goncharik informed the journalists that they are now through with the formation of the candidate’s election headquarters, presided over by Vasily Leonov – leader of the “For new Belarus” movement. They also stated the creation of presidential council, including all members of the “five” and which, as figuratively noted by Goncharik, represents a “brain-center” for nominating one candidate for the presidency.
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11:07, 27/07/2001, «Narodnaya volya»
Monday, June 18, Seventh dayToday by 11a.m. I had to leave for the Leninsky court to serve a 10-day administrative penalty. Let me remind the readers that according to police version, on May 18 this year I attacked the peacefully standing law-enforcers from the Zavodsky district station. Unable to cope with Schukin alone, they called for reinforcement – 70 people from a riot police company. (This figure was voiced during the judicial investigation). Having captured me, hundreds police agents in civilian immediately fled from the Skarina prospect, having captured nobody on the way.
JULY 27 – THE INDEPENDENCE DAY OF BELARUS
11:06, 27/07/2001
Ten years ago the Supreme Soviet of the 12th convocation ratified the Declaration of Independence of Belarus. Our country became a sovereign state. Let us congratulate all Charter’97 web-site visitors on this great occasion. Long Live Belarus!
11:05, 27/07/2001, ZUBR
Another opinion poll was carried out by the ZUBR pollsters. They surveyed two categories of population – 1025 people aged over 30 and 1043 people aged 18-30. The survey’s results showed that the people would come to the polling stations and vote against the current ruler.
11:04, 27/07/2001, Nasha Svaboda
Documents, handed over on July 13 by a unique candidate for the presidency Vladimir Goncharik to the journalists are genuine, “Nasha Svaboda” was told by the member of the public commission for investigating into the abductions Sergei Strizhonok. He noted that the expertise of the documents, testifying to the government’s implication in the vanishings of their political opponents, proves that.
11:03, 27/07/2001
On July 21 eventually the five oppositional candidates to the presidential position made their choice of the single candidate. It is the Chairman of the Belarusian trade union Federation Vladimir Goncharik. Today Vladimir Goncharik is a guest of “Nasha Svaboda” newspaper.
11:02, 27/07/2001, Kommersant
While presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus were trying to prove that Vitebsk is no Belovezhsky forest reserve and they are the promoters of economic cooperation, Russian Central Bank earmarked for the National Bank of Belarus the first part of the stabilization loan, worth 1,5bln rubles. This was said yesterday by the NB chair Petr Prokopovich. The time for granting the credit has been chosen from political significance – in September there’ll be presidential elections in Belarus.
11:01, 27/07/2001
July 27 official Minsk will host a meeting between the State Secretary of Russia-Belarus Union Pavel Borodin and president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. News agencies report that Borodin will inform Alexander Lukashenko about the course of preparations for the next session of the Union’s Cabinet, due to take place in Moscow on August 30. They will also touch upon issues, dealing with funding the union programs and draft project of the constitutional act of the Union state.
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