Jakov Gutman, the chairman of the World Association of Belarusan Jewry (WABJ), was detained by police officers for a picket in Minsk in front of the building of the Presidential Administration on January 14. Jakov Gutman tried to unfold a poster with the appeal to the president “to stop demolition of Jewish sacred places, Jewish cemeteries, and the memorial to the victims of Holocaust”. According to Interfax agency, Gutman was taken to the city police department for identification and clarification of motives of his actions.

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Since the beginning of the new year the state TV and Radio company handed over the exclusive rights for distribution of TV programs to the Belarusian news agency BELTA. The result could be seen at once, as the readers of the first issue of the independent newspaper “Belorusskaya Gazeta” received it without usual TV program in it.

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Judge of the Economic Court of Hrodna region Syarhei Kulakowski forbade the reporter of the newspaper “Dyen” to give details of the legal process on the suit of Volha Kunyawskaya against Hrodna regional executive committee. This case was considered in the Economic court of Hrodna region and attracted attention of all independent mass media in Hrodna, pahonia.promedia.by informs.

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