On the 29th of March "Zubr" activists hung out national flag on one of the highest buildings of Mogilev - regional diagnostic center. This medical establishment is located in the center section of the city opposite the Mogilev city executive committee. White-red-white flag was hanging over the city for more than four hours.
Ambassadors of Germany and France to Belarus have expressed hope that the authorities of the country would permit to render effective assistance to imprisoned Professor Yuri Bandazheuski, the Wednesday statement of the press service of the German Embassy in Minsk reads.
Some of the political prisoners who have served their term, are going at large. On March 30 Young Front activists Artur Finkevich and Zmitser Dashkevich, arrested for a meeting on March 15 in Kastrychnitskaya Sqaure in Minsk for a protest against changes in the Constitution, and DZianis Krauchonak and Georgi Bajkou, who have served their 5-day terms for participation in the opposition protest on March 25, were released.
A ten- meter banner “Freedom to Marynich!” was hanged out on March 30 by members of the youth movement Zubr in the center of Minsk, on the bridge of Independence Square.
The Slonim Branch of the BPF Party staged an unauthorized rally devoted to the Independence Day. The action was peaceful and closely watched by police. No detentions occurred during the action.
On 29 March the special rapporteur for human rights in Belarus of the UN Committee for Human Rights Adrian Severin presented his report on the human rights situation in Belarus. The report contains several items that criticize the Belarusian authorities for their part in observing human rights in Belarus, and also recommendations for the Belarusian government and the international community.
Most of the post-communist countries in transition are ruled either by reformed communists or by authoritarian anti-communists. It is ironic that the West - recently led more by the European Union than by the USA - helps the former to get elected even as it demonizes and vilifies the latter. The "regime change" fad, one must recall, started in the Balkans with Slobodan Milosevic, not in Afghanistan, or Iraq. Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former communist minister and the current president of Poland is feted by the likes of George Bush. Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer and Russia`s president, is a strategic ally of the USA. Branko Crvnkovski - an active "socialist" and the president of Macedonia - is the darling of the international community.
On March 30 the property was distrained in the apartment where the former minister and diplomat Mikhail Marynich lived before. The former wife of Mikhail Maryncih and two sons, Pavel and Igor, live in this apartment in Masherau Street 51 in Minsk. As said by Pavel Marynich, four years ago after a divorce their father moved out of the apartment with all his belongings. Distraining the property in the apartment of the sons of the political prisoner three months after the verdict was passed, is viewed by Pavel Marynich as an attack against him and his brother. The both sons of Mikhail Marynich are actively pressing for release of their father.
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