A fine of 20 basic units (510 thousand Belarusian rubles) was imposed on the chair of the Brest Oblast branch of the Free Trade Union Valyantsin Lazarenkau. Judge Ruslana Syanko found Mr. Lazarenkau guilty of unsanctioned meeting in the goods market of Brest during the strike of vendors on March 15.
Today is the 30th day of hunger strike of an entrepreneur from Vaukavysk, Mikalay Autukhovich. He and other protesters now have a real hope that their demands would be complied with by the tax inspection. Meanwhile tax police is distraining the property, and seven trucks have already been distrained.
According to Lukashenka’s decree “On improvement of work with population”, since April 15 almost all political parties and public associations in Belarus are to have books of complaints. For the majority of party leaders it was like a thunderbolt from the blue.
“I am making arrangements to portray Lukashenka. The question with Kim Jong-il is being discussed, and Fidel Castro as well, but we are not talking about the money in the latter case…” told the notorious Russian painter Nikas Safronov in the interview to the Russian newspaper “Moskovskiy Komsomolets”.
On 12 April the administrative commission of Barysau City Executive Committee considered the administrative cases against the under-aged activists of Zubr movement who were detained on 31 March for participation in the action of solidarity with the political prisoner Mikhail Marynich. Vasil Harbylenka, Aliaksandr Malchanau and Mikhail Staravoitau were fined 60 000 rubles (about $27).
Two demonstrations were staged in Minsk on April 13 by the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BCDTU) in protest against a controversial cabinet directive that evened the First-Class Worker Rate with the Subsistence Minimum Budget, curbing wage increases.
At the international scientific symposium in France CRIIRAD stated its proposal to Belarusian authorities to establish a scientific laboratory for the political prisoner Iury Bandazheuski so that he could continue his research in radiation medicine.
Sergei Kalyakin, leader of the Belarusian Party of Communists (BPC), received greater support than other bidders for the opposition nomination in the 2006 presidential election at a conference in Minsk attended by 74 delegates from democratic parties and movements.
Activists of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions (BCDTU) intend to put up a tent camp in a Minsk park in June to attract international attention to the government’s failure to fulfill recommendations of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Lithuanian Ambassador Jonas Paslauskas said on April 12 that his country’s embassy in Minsk is set to continue furthering constructive cooperation between Belarus and NATO.
The “Supreme State Council” of Belarus and Russia may hold its next session at the end of next week, Deputy Prime Minister Vasily Dolgolyov, the Belarusian leader’s representative to Russia, told reporters in Moscow on April 13.
Belarus and Russia will enhance their anti-aircraft defenses on the western border of the Union State, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said during a visit to local military proving ground, the Itar-Tass news agency reported from Minsk on Wednesday.
OSCE chief in Belarus Eberhard Heyken visited Alexander Vasilyev in the First Colony prison hospital in Minsk. In September 2004 Vasilyev, together with Valery Levonevski, was sentenced to two years of imprisonment for defaming the President of Belarus. The two stood accused of slandering Belarus President Lukashenko by distributing leaflets with a poem by an unknown author at an unauthorized rally in May 2004.
The Belarusian authorities claim that they established the guilt of American diplomat. On Wednesday the deputy head of the Interior Affairs department of Tsentralny district of Minsk Viktar Syramalot accused the diplomat of a fraud. According to ITAR-TASS, the former third secretary of the US Embassy in Belarus Eron Dovier is suspected of knowingly providing false denunciation from mercenary motives. The US Embassy in Minsk has been officially informed about it.
It will be no tragedy for Belarus to join the WTO later than other CIS member countries, said Aleksandr Lukashenko on April 13 while observing a military exercise on the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in the Brest region.
Almost 20 years after the nuclear power explosion at Chernobyl, radiation levels in Belarus are falling faster than expected, according to the results of a study published on Wednesday. More than 23 percent of Belarusian territory was contaminated with radioactive isotopes, particularly Cesium-137, when a reactor at the station in neighbouring Ukraine exploded in April 1986.
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