The wife of businessman Anatoly Krasovsky who had disappeared in September 1999, public figure and the member of the Council of the bloc "Free Belarus" Irina Krasovskaja answers the questions posed by "Nasha niva" correspondent.

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On August 7 OMON representatives ensured carrying out of the repair works in the building of National State Humanities Lyceum. Yesterday morning during the Lyceum pupils’ parents’ meeting construction workers tried to begin repairing the building. This attempt however was cut short by the Lyceum defenders who stand against liquidation of the unique Belarusian institution of education.

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Alexander Lukashenko is personally responsible for the only Belarusian Lyceum’ closure in the country. One can conclude from his commenting on the appointment of the new Education minister Radkov. Lukashenko stated exactly the following: ‘ Education is the sphere that gives intellectual and spiritual life to a person. That’s why it’s no space for opposition to make their nests.” The new Education minister now has three main tasks: to line up all the educational organization into the well-balanced system independently from their department’s subordination, to find out qualified personal and to give a proper appreciation to the reform in the educational sphere analyzing its course.

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The strike committee of the businessmen of the Republic of Belarus headed by Valery Levonevsky, declared about preparing and carrying out mass political actions of protest in the country. The cause for this declaration is the introducing of a new monthly binding tax (requisitions) for entrepreneurs that would be paid as the compulsory social assurance at 36% from the receipts. Moreover the tax will be recovered independently from how many days an individual entrepreneur works a month, how many children he has at his expense and how many years of the labor length he has. Even if he doesn’t work or work one day a month or doesn’t get any profits he will have to pay minimum 36% of the subsistence wage every month (today it’s about 19$). Then this sum of requisitions will be increased.

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On August 6 Alexander Lukshenko undertook a number of personnel’s sacks and appointments. As it was expected before Michael Podgainy, the former Information minister, left his post. Education minister, Petr Brigadin was also discharged. Vladimir Rusakevich - the former Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Belarus in China - is appointed Information minister. Rector of Mogilev University Alexander Radkov is appointed Education minister.

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The work of Belarusian representation of American Council on international researches and exchanges (IREX) is ceased in our country from today. Belarusian authorities took this decision some months ago. Just before the closure the organization that supported independent mass media and other civil elements was accused of having created the spy investigating net on the Belarusian territory. Today the American Ambassador in Belarus Michael Kozak whose term of ambassador’s powers has expired, leaves Minsk.

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