Alexander Lukashenko deems it relevant to throw the country’s military potential at aggressors in case of their invasion. “However, simply having the right to use armed forces is not enough, one has to get down to real action, rather than speak mere words,” – said Lukashenko at the Wednesday meeting in Baranovichi (Brest region), at which they discussed complex military maneuvers of the Belarusian military, scheduled for October this year. The head of state deems that the armed forces are the backbone of the country’s security system, ensuring Belarus’ strategic sovereignty and the geo-strategic stability in the region within the framework of the agreement with Russia, reports “Interfax”.
Today at 5.30p.m. ZUBR resistance movement activist Evgeny Afnagel will be released from the Okrestina confinement center. ZUBR activist was sentenced by the Sovietsky district court of Minsk to 15 days of arrest for his part in opposition’s rally of March 25, commemorating another jubilee of the Belarusian People’s Republic. Today he will be welcomed at the prison gates by his friends, relatives and colleagues.
11 political parties, public organizations and initiatives engage in the preparation of the Chernobyl Shlyach in Minsk on April 26, said on April 8 the chairman of the action’s organizing committee, academician Ivan Nikitchenko. The organizing committee includes representatives of BPF Party, United Civil Party, Belarusian Social-Democratic Party (NG), Belarusian Social-Democratic Gromada, United Social-Democratic Party, Charter’97 civil initiative, working group of the All-Belarusian Intelligentsia Assembly, “Respublika” faction, as well as the leaders of the charity foundations “To the Chernobyl children”, “Sakavik” and some other.
On April 8 the juvenile commission of the Borisov town hall, chaired by deputy head of the executive committee Valentina Shutko, ruled to fine the parents of a ninth grade pupil Dima Shmatko 15thsd rubles. Young ZUBR activist was detained March 5 morning by the law-enforcers near the local plant, where he passed out flyers of protest against the state social policy.
Press-service of the Belarusian Striking committee of entrepreneurs reports that on April 2 Valery Levonevsky went through a cardiology treatment. The physician diagnosed him as suffering from too high blood pressure and made a couple of injections. Levonevsky was also told to visit urologist, oculist and other medics. All the recommendations were given in written form. Nonetheless, the law-enforcers still refuse to fulfill them, despite oral and written requests of the Striking committee’s head.
President Lukashenko’s demonstrative solidarity with almost toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime got into the spotlight of American attention. Washington representative in the UN Commission for human rights Mrs.Kirkpatrik underscored that over the last year the human rights situation in Belarus deteriorated. The security forces beat up opposition members, trade unionists and prisoners. The secret agents trace down human rights advocates and hampered their activities. The regime steps up no serious efforts in order to investigate into the disappearances of famous opposition figures. They violate people’s right for peaceful assemblies, expression, labor and freedom of faith. The newspapers go shut, while trade unions are made dependent on the state. Belarus remains the only European country, which hasn’t got rid of the catastrophic totalitarianism.
The majority of Minskers, polled by sociologists (61%), spoke against cancellation of the constitutional limitation, which doesn’t let an individual to serve for more than two consecutive term as the Belarusian head of state. Such an opinion was shared in course of the survey, conducted by the “Zerkalo” research laboratory of BelaPAN news company on March 28-30.
The Republic of Belarus will be integrated into the international space community. We will also have a satellite of our own – this is the outcome of the meeting with the Belarusian and Russian scholars, held on April 8 by Alexander Lukashenko.
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