During the hot line with President Putin represenetative of Belarusian association in Russian town of Vologda, Aleh Kuchko, asked Russian president it Russia had changed its mind about integration with Belarus.

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The head of the department of ORT special projects, a famous TV journalist Paval Sharamet called the sudden recommencement of the investigation of his friend and colleague Zmicer Zavadski’s disappearance “surprising”. He said that in his interview to the “Pahonya” correspondent.

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In his preliminary report on the disappeared oppositionists the special PACE reporter Christos Pourgourides calls for resignation of the general prosecutor Viktar Sheiman, sanctions against the Belarusian leadership and legal processes in foreign countries. While the text of the report had been presented at the sitting of the judiciary committee of the PACE in Paris on December 15 and later on sent to the families of the disappeared, only on December 17, having returned to Cyprus, Pourgourides decided to make it available for the press.

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From January 1, 2004 Russia and Belarus are to supply arms and defense technologies according to the internal costs of the supplier. This agreement, as Interfax informs, was come to in Minsk during the sitting of joint Belarusian-Russian commission on military and technical cooperation.

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