The studies with the pupils of the National Humanities Lyceum of Yakub Kolas, organized under open sky, are now being moved indoors, due to the cool weather conditions. As said at the September 4 meeting of the Lyceum’s representatives by its director Vladimir Kolas, they will most likely use the premises, offered by certain organizations and individuals for organizing the educational process there.

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The head of the OMM (OSCE Office in Minsk) Ebergard Haiken forwarded his letter to the Justice Minister of Belarus Viktor Golovanov in connection with the situation around the Belarusian non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

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The parliamentary elections in Belarus in the year 2004 will cost the tax-payers around $7mln. “An approxim,ate draft budget for the implementation of parliamentary elections was forwarded to the Ministry of finances to prepare the national budget for the year 2004,” – “Interfax” was told on Thursday by the secretary of the Central Electoral Commission Nikolai Lozovik.

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The town hall didn’t sanction the initiative of the Grodno BPF “Adradgenne’s” to organize festive events, commemorating the Day of the Belarusian military glory. The formal reason for their refusal was the alleged disparity between the submitted application and the article 6 of the Law “On assemblies, meetings, street rallies, demonstrations and pickets”.

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On September 3 the Department of public associations of the Justice Ministry almost simultaneously filed two lawsuits on the liquidation of the national public association “Zhensky otvet” (“Females’ response”) and the public association “Belarusian Foundation “Kassiopeya””. Among the Justice Ministry’s complaints over the former is the alleged incompliance of their legal address’s factual location and incorrectness of the association’s letterhead, according to the official norms.

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Strange as it sounds, but the OSCЕ office in Minsk is pleased with the position of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry in some areas. The greatest satisfaction of OOM was caused by our FM’s vision of the freedom of speech phenomenon. It sounds especially weird if one takes into account the fact that the OSCE Media Representative Freimut Duve failed to get to Belarus and his future visit is called into question too.

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On August 30 in the village of Gantsevichi the local authorities violently threw out of the assembly hall of the musical school, which hosted the conference of educational workers, the correspondent of the newspaper “Gantsavitsky Chas” Petr Guzaevsky.

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Today the Information Ministry will discuss the creation of a new sports TV channel in Belarus. For this purpose they can well take over the frequency of the “Russia” channel.

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