Alexander Lukashenko will arrive with a working trip to Russia on November 27, RIA “Novosti” was told on Thursday by the deputy head of the Russian Administration Sergei Prikhodko. According to him, Alexander Lukashenko will meet Vladimir Putin in the state residence “Volynskoye” near Moscow.
Belarus intends to engage in the OSCE Foreign Ministers’ summit, due to take place on December 6-7 in Oporto (Portugal). Belarusian FM press-secretary Pavel Latushko said this on Thursday, answering the journalists’ questions in Minsk.
Mogilev military procuracy instituted legal action over the suicide of the military commissar of the Mogilev region Alexander Konev. “Mediafact” reports that on Wednesday Konev threw himself out of the seventh floor window of the “Himvolokno” factory’s hospital. The law-enforcement bodies clarified that at the moment they have unleashed a judicial medical expertise into the tragic incident.
Criminal action, unleashed by the Belarusian Interior Ministry concerning the disappearance of the director of the news agency “Ukrainian News” Mikhail Kolomiyts, is closed, “Mediafact” was told on Thursday by the first deputy head of the criminal search department of Interior Ministry Igor Leonovich.
Polish TV documentary on the shutdown of the Belarusian newspaper from Grodno “Pagonya” (Chase) won an award at the international festival “Press Freedom Award 2002”. The film of the Belostok TV journalist Ezha Kalina “Chase for the truth” was dedicated to the newspaper’s closure and trial proceedings over its editor-in-chief Pavel Mozheiko and report Nikolai Markevich.
I Believe 15:01, 21/11/2002, This publication opens the series of materials from the newspaper ZUBR
Over a year passed since last year’s presidential elections. A lot happened in the country and our movement since then, but in all our talks with the friends we always come down to this question: what should we do next?
The Frunzensky district court of Minsk practically confirmed the version on the involuntary and violent character of Anatoly Krasovsky and Viktor Gonchar’s disappearance and attached to the case files the documents, which have never been taken into consideration before.
As you remember, fourteen of the 15 EU foreign ministers decided yesterday to impose travel restrictions on Belarus President Lukashenko and the circle of people closest to him. Today French and Swedish Foreign Ministries stated their intentions to follow the decision, passed by EU, and deny entry visas to the Belarusian personas-non-grata.
“Interfax” reports that the Czech president Vatslav Havel commented on the Czech visa denial to the Belarusian incumbent Alexander Lukashenko. Vatslav Havel stated that it must be viewed as “a reaction to the authoritarian methods of governance of the Belarusian leadership”.
On November 20 relatives of the director of news agency “Ukrainian News” Mikhail Kolomiyts identified his body. After the proper protocol filing the body will be transported to Kiev for the burial.
Moscow hosted a meeting of the Commission of the “union state’s” Parliamentary Assembly for security, defense and criminality fighting. The sides discussed the activities of the regional grouping of forces of both armies. The “union state’s” budget earmarked for the purpose 63,5mln Russian rubles.
October saw a slowdown in the investment activism in Belarus. According to the Ministry of economy’s press-service, with the remaining positive investment dynamics, their growth rate in January-October this year constituted 105,2% of the analogous period in 2001 with a preliminary forecast of 106-107%.
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