Russian secret services claim that several foreign non-governmental organizations are planning a regime change in Belarus, Director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Nikolay Patrushev said in the State Duma Thursday, Interfax reports. He says the West is going to fund and organize a revolution similar to those in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.
Today the working day in the office of the United Civil Party started with heightened interest of health officers and fire engineering service. The representatives of the sanitary inspection, signed the register of inspections, and checked the technical passport of the office. After that they checked the rooms of the office and the number of computers there. In 20 minutes after their leaving, there was a ring at the door of a representative of the fire engineering service. Both the health officers and representative of fire service were interested by the Publishing house “Vremya”, which rents premises in the head office of the United Civil Party.
RFE/RL`s Romania-Moldova Service interviewed former U.S. national security adviser under the Carter administration Zbigniew Brzezinski on the eve of President George W. Bush`s visit to Moscow to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. The Polish-born Brzezinski talked about Russia`s "imperial nostalgia," Vladimir Putin as the "final gasp of the Soviet era," and what he describes as U.S. efforts to "promote geopolitical pluralism" in the former Soviet Union.
On May 7 Lukashenka issued a decree according to which the main Minsk avenues, Skaryna and Masherau Avenues, were renamed into Nezavisimosti (Independence) and Pobediteley (Victors’) avenues. However, as the “Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belorussii” notes, according to the Law (which is considered to be higher than the decree of the president) “On administrative-territorial division and procedure of decisions on administrative-territorial system of the Republic of Belarus”, signed in May, 1998 by Lukashenka himself, president cannot rename streets.
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Borys Tarasiuk thinks that it is not serious to comment Lukashenka’s statements. He told that at the press conference, refusing to comment on Lukashenka’s words that the latter allegedly did not know about the incident with the detained Ukrainian protesters on April 26 in Belarus.
The people of Europe have learned from their past mistakes and helped create a united, democratic continent that is at peace, the European Union`s foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, said in a speech on Wednesday in Warsaw.
On 11 May in Minsk the police detained two activist of the public initiative Voka for handing out the fly-sheets “Today the Ukraine – tomorrow Belarus” in the public transport and took them to a police station. The policemen confiscated the fly-sheets and let the guys go, saying “We forgive you, cause it’s the first time you were caught”.
On 10 May the youth protest action against the renaming of three Minsk streets took place in the center of the capital. About 400 people took part in it, 7 of them were detained. Such organizations as Young Front, youth initiative Voka, Youth of Belarusian People’s Front and pupils of Belarusian Humanities Lyceum participated in it. The information about the action was distributed through internet and SMS. The result was a massive flash mob in Minsk. At 7 p.m. about 400 people lined up in Kastrychnitskaia Square and took on fascias with letters SOS. Two riot squad units started to push them to the center of the Square. When the action participants started singing We’ll Come out in Close Columns” national anthem the police started to seize activists. When the action participants sat down on haunches, the police bus moved in their direction. The police detained, Fransishak Viachorka, Paviel Shaviel, Mikhail Vouchak, Artsiom Tsiepliakou, Barys Haretski and two more guys. The detainees were pulled into the police bus with the number KI 6225. The detainees said the police swore on them, threatened, searched and confiscated mobile telephones. In an hour the bus took them to Minsk Tsentralny Borough Board of Internal Affairs and. At 9.15 p.m. they were let go without any explanations or apologies.
“The today’s situation in Belarus worries all neighbours, all friends of the country and the Belarusian people,” told the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Rapporteur on the situation in Belarus Azim Malazade. The deputy of the parliament, the chairman of the Democratic Reforms Party of Azerbaijan, Medicine Professor Azim Malazade was elected Rapporteur of the PACE on Belarus in April this year.
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