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Brest Region: Few Democrats allowed to Election Committees
15:46, 02/08/2004
On August 2 at the joint session of the Brest executive committee and presidium of the regional Council of deputies the constituency election committees for parliamentary elections have been formed. 20 representatives of six political parties were approved as members of the committees. The largest representation belongs to the Communist Party of Byelorussia (CPB) – 8 members. Then goes the Liberal Democratic Party (5 members), the Party of Belarusian Communists (PCB) (4); the Belarusian Popular Front Party, Social Democratic Party (Narodnaya Hramada) and the United Civil Party each have one representative. 
12:39, 02/08/2004, «Ostrov»
Polish publicist Waclaw Radzivanovicz in an article under the title “Exactly Like In Minsk”, in “Gazeta Wyborcza” describes his impressions when he came to Kyiv from Belarus, Polskie Radio informs. The journalist was shocked by what he saw on TV in Ukraine – almost all TV channels were praising Viktor Yanukovych to the skies, like in Belarus praise is showered on Alyaxandar Lukashenka.
12:04, 02/08/2004
German branch of the human rights organization “Amnesty International” and Association of Free Students of Germany have announced a new action in support of the human rights in Belarus. Human rights activists ask to send emails to Alyaxandar Lukashenka expressing protest against violations of human rights in Belarus. The letter contains a demand to stop repressions against activists of the Zubr movement, against shut down of NGOs, to release former head of the Homiel Medical university Professor Yuri Bandazheuski, to carry out independent investigation of the disappeared political opponents of the regime, and to abolish death penalty. To send a protest letter is possible from the Internet page http://www.belarus-petition.org/en/campaign/petition/index.html
11:48, 02/08/2004
Speaker of the National Assembly of Syria, Makhmud Al Abrash, come on for a visit. He plans to meet heads of the legislative and executive authorities, to visit a number of Belarusian enterprises. In particular, today the meeting of the lower chamber of the Belarusian ‘parliament’ Vadzim Papou, and speaker of the National Assembly of Syria is to take place. The official representative of the Foreign ministry of Belarus underlined that during the visit it is planned to sign an agreement on cooperation between the two parliaments, which is “to contribute to further development of inter-parliamentarian cooperation, including cooperation through international organizations”.
11:30, 02/08/2004
Five more young people arrested for participation in the action of July 21, marking the end of the ten-year term of Alyaxandar Lukashenka’s rule, were freed on July 31. Yauhen Afangel, Paval Yuhnevich, Maxim Vejnyarski, Artur Finkevich and Aleh Korban were sentenced to ten days of arrest. By the gates of the prison dozens of Zubr and Young Front activists were meeting them. At the moment one participant of the protest on July 21st, coordinator of the civil initiative Charter’97 Zmitser Bandarenka, stays in prison. He was sentenced to 15 days of imprisonment.
11:24, 02/08/2004, By Stefan Wagstyl, Financial Times
Welcome to Minsk, capital of Belarus, Europe`s last communist dictatorship. Five years ago, President Aleksander Lukashenko`s country seemed to be disappearing down an economic black hole following the 1998 financial crisis in neighbouring Russia.
11:21, 02/08/2004, REUTERS
Russia`s Foreign Ministry summoned a senior Belarussian diplomat on Friday and told him the closure of Russian state television`s office in Minsk threatened freedom of speech in the ex-Soviet state. Authorities in Belarus, accused by liberals and Western countries of violating human rights, closed the office last week after accusing a correspondent of exaggerating the scale of a demonstration against President Alexander Lukashenko.
11:17, 02/08/2004, Wall Street Journal editorial
The Poles call them kresy, lands on the edge, and Russians the "near abroad." Belarus and Ukraine have traditionally existed in a political and geographic limbo between East and West that more than a decade of independence, and the highest of hopes, hasn`t liberated them from.
11:13, 02/08/2004
On July 30 Homiel regional executive committee and presidium of the regional council approved the membership of the 17 constituency commissions for the parliamentary elections. Eight parties proposed to include their members to the commissions, and appointment of representatives of only four of them were confirmed: 3 members of the United Civil Party and 3 of the Liberal Democratic Party, 5 members of the Belarusian Communist Party (PCB), and 6 of the Communist Party of Belarus (CPB).
11:03, 02/08/2004
British scientist Alan Flowers, who was giving lectures in Belarus, and studied results of the Chernobyl atomic power station catastrophe, is expelled from the country. Dr Flowers was invited to Belarus’s Interior Ministry today to have his visa annulled and receive an order to leave the country by Monday. He would not be allowed to enter the country for five years. Alan Flowers is an expert in radiology from Kingston university, and one of the curator of the European Youth Parliament. Recently he took part in the work of he youth Parliament’s summer camp in Kobryn. As Dr. Flowers informed to the Charter’97 press center, in May he was entered in the list of persons whose stay in Belarus is prohibited, however nobody informed him about it. On July 9 the scientist entered Belarus, made a tour in Homiel and Brest regions, where he had been registered according to the rules of foreigners’ sojourn in Belarus. Only after twenty days during an occasional check of documents he found out that he has no right to stay in Belarus.
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