Hrodna city executive committee refused to register the Regional Development Fund “Ratusha”. This fund was created by activists of the liquidated civil association of the same name. The main reason of the refusal – faults found in the registration documents submitted.

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Dzmitry Ivanowsky was sentenced to 10 days of arrest for organizing a “silent demonstration” of the small traders of the markets that took place on March 1. In the courtroom on March 3 Ivanowsky said that he goes on hunger strike, Radio Svaboda informs.

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Joining the oppositional movement “Zubr” by 120 members of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, students of V. Chernyshow state college of light industry in Baranavichy, has become an event of a national scale. We know that young oppositionist from Baranavichy are pressured now: the head of the BRYU branch in the college, Nikita Sasim, was dismissed by order of the BRYU head Mikhail Orda (more specific information to be obtained later). In the interview to the Charter’97 press-center the action of the students of the light industry college is commented by the leader of the Russian party “Democratic Union of Russia”, Valeria Novodvorskaya, who is Baranavichy born.

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