A statement of claim has been submitted to the court of Kastrychitski district of Minsk against a well-known Belarusian journalist Iryna Khalip, and private unitary enterprise “Marat”, a publisher of the Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta. A defendant is some Arkady
Mar, who had recently interviewed Alyaksandr Lukashenka in capacity of an editor-in-chief of the American newspaper “Russkaya Amerika”.
The lawyer of Mikhail Marinich was denied a meeting with her client on Tuesday, four days after her first unsuccessful attempt to visit the jailed politician.
A judge of Gomel’s Tsentralny District Court on March 22 rejected a complaint by Yury Glushakov, a member of the Gomel City Soviet, about the city government’s ban on a rally over utility rates.
Different provocations are organized against the chairman of the National Strike Committee of Vendors, member of the Council of Civil Initiatives “Free Belarus” Valery Levaneuski in the colony number 22 in Damanava settlement, Ivatsevichy district, Brest region. Besides, there are attempts to bring up a criminal action against him.
British Ambassador Brian Bennett said that his country’s relations with Belarus have not improved since he came to Minsk two years ago. “In terms of Belarus’ move towards a liberal market economy there has been no progress, indeed there have been steps backwards,” he said in last week’s interview with BelaPAN.
This year the Belarusian government did its best to silence independent media in the run up to the 17 October legislative elections and referendum, the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) said in its 2004 World Press Freedom Review released on March 22.
The Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BCDTU) has chided Nepal’s royal government for cracking down on all civil liberties, expressing solidarity with the Himalayan kingdom’s trade union activists.
The property of Vladimir Berezhkov (Uladzimir Berazhkou), editor-in-chief of the leading sports newspaper “Pressball” was distrained. It happened on March 11 after the journalist returned from a foreign business trip. The property was distrained as according to the court ruling 10 million rubles are to be collected in behalf of Finance Minister, the head of the Belarusian Association of Gymnastics Nikolay Korbut.
In opinion of the head of state, intractability of the country’s leadership in many issues, both economic and political, is another reason for the outside pressure on Belarus. “We are told: your policy is directed against the interests of the neighbors, including Russia. Or we are pointed out what company should be privatized and sold for nothing”, Alexander Lukashenko said.
A protest action with a demand to release political prisoners took place on March 21 on October Square in Minsk. For the ninth day people are gathering on the Square with portraits of former minister and diplomat Mikhail Marynich, leaders of vendors’ movement Valery Levaneuski, Alyaksandr Vasilyeu, Anatol Shumchanka, the Young Front leaders Zmitser Dashkevich and Artur Finkevich, Zubr activist Maxim Vinyarksi. On Monday about 60 activists of Zubr movement, the Council of Civil Initiatives “Free Belarus”, public association Perspektyva and the Young Front, took part in the protest.
During the medical check-up of political prisoner Mikhail Marynich in the cardiology center of the hospital number 4 it was established that alongside with the ischemic stroke the 65-year-old politician had a myocardial infarction about half a year ago. The press center of the Charter’97 was informed about it by the son of Mikhail Marynich, leader of the civil initiative “Freedom to Political Prisoners!” Igor Marynich. As said by Igor Marynich, an inflammatory process is taking place in the body of his father, and its nature cannot be explained by doctors still.
"The EU wishes to have in Belarus a neighbour that respects democratic values, rule of law and human rights," said European Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner. "I sincerely hope that we can further increase our cooperation with Belarus in the future by offering it all the benefits of our Neighbourhood Policy. But, for that to be possible, the government of Belarus must first clearly demonstrate its commitment to the European values of democracy, human rights and rule of law," said Ferrero-Waldner.
The military parade, which will be held in central Minsk on May 9 to mark the 60th anniversary of the victory over the Nazi Germany in World War II, will involve 42 aircraft from six bases in Belarus, an official with the Air/Air Defense Command Information Center told BelaPAN.
Belarus’ Supreme Arbitration Court has upheld the Moscow Arbitration Court’s ruling that Belarus’ Krinitsa must pay Russia’s leading brewery Baltika U.S. $1.23 million in interest on earlier repaid debt, Yevgeny Smirnov, first deputy chairman of Belarus’ Supreme Arbitration Court, told Prime-Tass Monday.
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