Our web-site’s sections "Files", "Documents", "They defamed Lukashenko" and "European arsenal of terrorism" come up with the new materials, collected over the past few weeks.

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On August 7 head of the tax police of the Leninsky district of Minsk Nikolai Nemtsev accused in a TV air famous tennis player Maksim Mirny of tax-evasion and non-submission of tax declaration for the year 2001.

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Editor of the Grodno newspaper “Pahonia”, recently shut by the authorities, Nikolai Markevich continues trying to register his new edition. On August 7 in his interview to BelaPAN he said that back on May 10 he addressed the Grodno town committee in order to register the newspaper “Golos” (“Voice”). “I’ve been waiting for their response for a long while. Then my patience came to an end and on August 7 I called the town committee. There I was told that their answer had been prepared long ago and sent to me on May 28. So I had to proceed to the town hall and take a copy of this document,” – said Markevich.

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730 planned examinations have been carried out in the agricultural complex of Belarus over the past two weeks. Upon their results 868 people were brought to legal responsibility and 1516 legal actions were instituted. Such figures were voiced yesterday during the prosecutor general Viktor Sheiman’s reporting to Lukashenko on the course of the harvesting campaign.

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Minsk Tractor Plant will remain state-run. The government will render assistance to it as before, demanding appropriate feedback from it. Lukashenko said this during the presentation of a report by the MTP director general Alexander Pukhovoi.

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“Young Gromada” activist Svetlana Neh was convicted to 10 days of administrative arrest for her participation in an unsanctioned action “Chain of those who care”, which took place on July 8 in Grodno, commemorating another year since the disappearance of cameraman Dmitry Zavadsky of ORT. The lady was found guilty of holding the missing journalist’s portrait in her hands.

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“BDG” correspondent poses his questions to the president of the Liberal group of the CoE Parliamentary Assembly Matias Ershi. Liberal group is the third biggest and, undoubtedly, one of the most influential PACE political groups. Up until recently liberals were the ones who dictated their will in the Assembly – their representative Lord Rassel-Johnston was elected PACE president. At the moment, the group’s member heads the Political Committee, on which the destiny of the September report on Belarus largely depends. This year Mr.Ershi became president of the Liberal PACE group. The man is a 48-year old politician, former state secretary and the Minister of foreign affairs of Hungary. He replaced at the post Kristina Oyuland, present-day Foreign Minister of Estonia, whose position towards Belarus had always been straight, harsh and unambiguous: such regime has no room in Europe. Her successor seemingly doesn’t intend to change the course.

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Former head of the Belarusian railroad Viktor Rakhmanko was charged under 15 episodes, Alexander Lukashenko was told yesterday by the prosecutor general Viktor Sheiman. He also said that upon the outcomes of the examination of the Belarusian metallurgic plant they instituted legal action for power abuse under art.424/3 of the Criminal code.

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According to the operative data of the Ministry of labor and social protection, by August 1 this year the state employment bureau registered 118.680 jobless people. Their greatest number is in the Vitebsk region (20.341 people), while the smallest – in the Grodno region (14,024). The average size of the unemployment allowance in July equals to 16,379 rubles.

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First negative consequences appeared after the cancellation by the Supreme Economic Court of a registration of the Russian private company “Zapad-Transnefteproduct”, headquartered in Mozyr. Radio “Svaboda” reports that around 3 thousand Belarusian workers lost their jobs over the absence of “ZT” orders.

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