Activists of Maladzechna Zubr department expressed protest to cruel sentence to one of leaders of Belarusian opposition Mihail Marinich. They carried out several actions during the first days of the new year to support political prisoner.
The U.S. Department of State has submitted the report to the Congress on anti-Semitic sentiment in the world, MIGnews informs. It is underlined in the report that the growth of the number of immigrants from Muslim countries in Western Europe, many of which are of little education and poor, contribute significantly to the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe. At the same time, the authors of the report emphasize that far-right radicals are responsible for most attacks on in Europe. A special place in the report is dedicated to anti-Semitic activities in Russia, Belarus and other countries of the former USSR.
Three activists of “Zubr” movement detained in Horki (Mahiliou region) for distributing newspapers. Maksim Dvaretsky, Yauhen Suvorau and Dzianis Kryvanosau were handing out newspaper “Vybar” in Belarusian state Agricultural Academy. The newspaper contains information about the most crying falsifications during recent referendum and parliament elections. The young people have been kept in Horky police department for two hours already.
Five years of imprisonment and confiscation of property – this sentence of the Belarusian court was passed upon one of the leaders of political opposition of Belarus, former Belarusian Ambassador to Latvia Mikhail Marynich. The charge was trumped-up, but in the country of dictator Lukashenka the ruling was bound to be a verdict of “guilty”, and such a sentence has been passed. This event has not been left unnoticed in Latvia. The Latvian Transatlantic Organization LATO and non-governmental organization “Open Belarus” held a picket protesting against trial over Mikhail Marynich. The mock of the trial was publicly condemned by Latvian President Vaira Vîíe-Freiberga and Prime Minister Aigars Kalvîtis.
Finance Minister Nikolai Korbut on Tuesday won 40 million rubels ($18,430) in damages from the private sports newspaper Pressbol and its chief editor over what the official called a libelous front-page headline. Judge Valery Yesman of Minsk’s Tsentralny District Court ruled that the official should receive 30 million rubels from the paper and 10 million from Editor-in-Chief Vladimir Berezhkov.
Sometimes the stage of fairness of this or that court ruling could be judged through comparison. At the same time with the trial of Marynich’s case, a process in another loud case was taking place, in the case of Ex-Charge-d`Affaires of the presidential administration Halina Zhuravkova.
The sentence in the case of Mikhail Marynich was condemned by the member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Christos Pourgourides, who was the author of the report on disappeared politicians in Belarus, Radio Svaboda informs. The parliamentarian notes that he was shocked and saddened by this decision. “It is understandable that Lukashenka’s regime is coming to show true colors to the world. I hope very much that after this ruling the international community would understand that if serious actions against this regime are not taken, and it is not made to give up the power, the events in Belarus are to get worse and worse with every month. This is a tragic objective law by which I am very disappointed, and I hope that the international community would react determinedly to this ruling”.
The defense team of Mikhail Marinich, who had a harsh prison sentence imposed on him over charges widely believed to be politically motivated, plan to appeal the conviction and sentence to the Minsk Regional Court.
A Minsk court recently sentenced Belarusian opposition politician Mikhail Marynich to five years in prison. Many have condemned the sentence as the cruel retribution of the ruling regime against a politician who once dared to challenge it politically.
“Belarus should become a democratic partner with Europe, but is unlikely to do so while President Alexander Lukashenko’s government persists in violating citizens rights”, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said in an interview published Tuesday.
The leaders of pro-democracy parties have condemned as politically motivated a five-year prison sentence imposed on opposition politician Mikhail Marinich on December 30.
The leader of the pro-government trade union federation accused the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BCDTU) of reluctance to cooperate in drawing up the trilateral General Agreement with the government and employers.
The Belarusian authorities will continue their “mop-up operations” in the political arena and will increase pressure on political parties and non-governmental organizations, Sergei Kalyakin, leader of the Belarusian Party of Communists, said while commenting to BelaPAN on possible developments in the political situation.
The ideology departments of the Minsk City Executive Committee and the city`s district administrations plant to hold the first-ever city contest among Minsk`s organizations and enterprises to reward the best organizers ideological work.
Russia should radically revise its position in the Russia-Belarus Union, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday. “I have said before that Russia cannot lose Belarus, because that would start disintegration of Russia,” he noted.
Population of Belarus may reduce by 870,000 people by the beginning of 2020 as compared with 2000 and reach 9,132,400, says an official demographic forecast. Analysis shows that the number of able-bodied population will reduce rapidly starting from 2008 and reach 5,370,600 by 2020 as against 5,841,900 in 2000.
[Presenter] There are whole industries which, regardless of holidays, carry on their work or duty, day and night. An NTV correspondent got access to a top-secret Russian facility in Belarus. Our special report today is about this centre for space observation.
A 24-year-old resident of Minsk who was riding in a BMW when it collided last week with an Audi A8 with VfB Stuttgart playmaker Aleksandr Gleb (Hleb) behind the wheel died in a hospital on Monday.
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