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Amnesty International Denounces Crackdown on Human Rights Defenders in Belarus
11:21, 08/08/2001
Human rights defenders in Belarus are facing a relentless campaign of harassment and intimidation by the authorities, Amnesty International said in a new report released today, In the Spotlight of the State: Human Rights Defenders in Belarus.
11:20, 08/08/2001
The Central Election Commission for Elections and Referenda draw a result of the nomination of the candidates for the presidential position in Belarus. Four contenders will continue the struggle: Sergey Gaidukevich, Vladimir Goncharik, Syamon Domash and Alexander Lukashenko. Their registration documents will be considered at the sitting of the CEC on August 14.
11:19, 08/08/2001
13th Supreme Soviet deputy, journalist and human rights advocate Valery Schukin, serving his three-month arrest in Zhodino jail, was forbidden to hold correspondence from now on. Schukin’s friends learnt this on trying to pass a parcel to him. Prison guards refused to accept paper, envelopes and pens from the hands of Andrei Bastunets – lawyer of the Belarusian Association of Journalists. Thus, the administration reacted to the letters of human rights defender from behind bars, in which Schukin writes about hardships, that he encounters daily in custody. These letters were published in independent editions.
11:16, 08/08/2001
Alexander Lukashenko called the broadened format of radio “Svaboda” (Freedom) broadcasting in Belarus a “direct interference in inner affairs of Belarus”. He was heard saying this during his Wednesday press-conference for Russian and Belarusian journalists.
11:14, 08/08/2001
The approaching tactical military exercise “Neman-2001” will be a serious trial for all the army formations of Belarus, including the railway units, BELTA correspondent was told by general-major Anatoly Stepuk . The military added that the railway forces would concentrate on building demolished objects, such as roads and bridges, in real conditions. Great attention will be paid to the quickness of their work. Our army is exploring the recent Yugoslav experience, i.e. NATO air raids in 1999, he said.
11:12, 08/08/2001
Belarusian trade union of the military addressed Prime Minister Ermoshin with a request to lift salaries of the army soldiers and officers, BELTA correspondent was told by deputy chair of trade union Mikhail Litvinenko. According to him, almost ten thousand army personnel – that is every forth – are getting salaries equal to the minimum living budget level.
11:09, 08/08/2001, “Narodnaya Volya”
Recently the spouse of the missing Viktor Gonchar Zinaida met with deputy head of presidential Administration Yuri Sivakov. This person is considered to be one of those, implicated in killings of Lukashenko’s opponents. Gonchar’s meeting with Sivakov lasted for one hour. Here’s what the lady told afterwards:
11:08, 08/08/2001
The former head of the pre-trial detention center of the City Committee of the Interior Affairs, colonel Alkaev, proved that his report, which copies were published in the independent media, is authentic, Vladimir Goncharik, the candidate for the presidential position informed the journalists at the press-club organized by Belarusian Association of Journalists on August 7. Vladimir Goncharik spoke with colonel Alkaev on the phone the day before.
11:07, 08/08/2001, NTV.ru
Runner for the presidency of Belarus, leader of the Federation of trade unions Vladimir Goncharik is convinced that opposition can come to power in the country by purely non-conflict means. During his Tuesday meeting of the press-club Goncharik said: “There’s no need to lead people to the streets.” “We have enough power to solve the problem through elections,” – claims the candidate. However, he didn’t cast away the possibility that Belarus may repeat the Yugoslav scenario, “having lost OSCE membership due to the actions of the head of state”.
11:06, 08/08/2001, Anatoly Lebedko, UCP leader, Vice-Speaker of the 13th Supreme Soviet
Officially, according to the income declaration, Lukashenko earns 538 thousand 400 Belarusian rubles a month. This sum includes anything from his monthly salary, which equals to 150 US dollars to the bonus money for long service, professionalism and, of course, intensive work. Someone can say: well, it’s not really much. However, if you take into consideration the confession of Ivan Titenkov, who stayed with Lukashenko shoulder to shoulder for almost six years, that president works no more than 3-4 hours a day, that payment seems more than relevant. Moreover, if you analyze the lifestyle, attributes, entourage and other integral components of Lukashenko’s life, one can easily notice that Lukashenko’s expenses don’t fit into his tax declaration. So where do the monies come from?
11:05, 08/08/2001
The session of the Central Electoral Commission for elections and referenda, which will sum up the results of the candidates’ nomination for the presidency, will be held August 8 in Minsk. BelaPAN was told by the CEC secretary Nikolai Lozovik that the preliminary outcomes of the signature collection expertise show that all four runners for the post will resume the race: Sergei Gaidukevich, Vladimir Goncharik, Syamon Domash and Alexander Lukashenko.
11:04, 08/08/2001
Zubrs have distributed more than five thousand of issues of “Nasha Svaboda”, “Rabochj” and “ZUBR” on the topic of the future elections in the towns of Zhodino, Berezino and Logoisk. The walls and fences are covered with the stickers “Time to choose!” and “Time to clear up!” In Berezino, ZUBR made a performance with the usual character – a skier in a moustached mask. Ten activists were detained by the police in Zhodino and Berezino. The data of the five more ZUBRs who handed out the “Rabochij” newspaper were written down.
11:03, 08/08/2001, Gazeta SNG
Everybody has seen at least once the documentary of the All-Russian Communist party (of Bolsheviks) assembly. The Great Father and Teacher is on the rostrum. “Comrad Stalin, -- he calls himself in third person, “had done his duty before the peasantry, (ovation), before the working class (prolonged applause), before the people (loud prolonged applause, everybody stands up), before the intelligentsia”.
11:02, 08/08/2001
The planned growth of an average salary in Belarus to the equivalent of 100 dollars may lead to the destructive tendencies in economy, said during the August 7 Minsk press-conference representative of the International Monetary Fund Marta de Kostella-Branko. IMF mission, led by her, has been operating in Belarus during the past fortnight in order to evaluate the implementation of economic reforms, which officially got started on April 1 and were originally designed to cover the period of six months.
11:01, 08/08/2001
On August 7 a goods train crashed by Gomel on the road Gomel-Brest. 13 empty tank-trucks left the road, about 50 m of the railroad damaged. No victims.
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