A new investigator is to conduct the investigation of the case of the leader of the group “Respublika” Syarhei Skrabets. Radio Svaboda was informed about it on June 20 by the investigator of Brest prosecutor’s office Andrei Livanau. As said by him, the reason was that the Republican prosecutor’s office had requested the case. Investigator Livanau says that he does not have information whether the political prisoner has started to bring to a close the hunger strike, started on May 15 at the day of arrest.
For the last days the Belarusian powers have signed several unpopular laws, revealing only about one thing: Alyaksandr Lukashenka aims at increasing personal control over representatives of political establishment and isolating the country from any penetration of young branches of democracy, Russian internet source KM.RU informs. A model of a “closed country” is realized in Belarusian state. This version is substantiated by the following facts.
With placards in Bangladesh and speeches across Europe, supporters of detained Myanmar democracy heroine Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated the Nobel laureate`s 60th birthday by calling for her freedom.
Just a few months ago the United States seemed to have few choices in the strategically important Muslim countries of Central Asia. All were ruled by undemocratic regimes, placing them at odds with President Bush`s freedom policy, but several nevertheless were emerging as key partners of the Pentagon, both in support of operations in nearby Afghanistan and as potential locations for long-term U.S. bases. The administration`s response to this dilemma was to embrace schizophrenia: The State Department criticized the Central Asian despots even as the Defense Department embraced them.
An attempt to provoke internal upheavals at in 2007 the latest are awaiting Russia, told President of the Effective Policy Fund Gleb Pavlovsky at the meeting with the youth in Saint Petersburg on June 18, as Rosblat informs. As said by him, “the USA and other forces, before entering on actions in Russia, are to train in Belarus,” where elections are to be held in 2006.
A false print run of the newspaper of the Union of Poles, “Glos znad Niemna”, has been started to print in Hrodna regional printing office. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Andrzej Pisalnik, has found out about that and requested documents concerning this issue of the newspaper, from the printing office. As it turned out, the newspaper was received without a delivery note, and the signature of the editor who had signed the newspaper for print, was illegible.
The Minsk Municipal Executive Committee debarred the meeting of dwellers of the Maskouski District on nomination of delegates to Democratic Forces Congress in the required place. The declarants were sent to the Druzhby Narodov Park demanding to pay the work of the militia and a whole range of other services including vegetators and the Ministry of Emergency.
“We regard them as the citizens of Russia, hence, on the territory of Belarus the Chechens have the same rights as other citizens of Russia do,” - Yauhen Kramko, the Head of the Department for Refugee Affairs of the exterior labour migration administration of Citizenship and Migration Department Office of the Ministry of Interior of Belarus, said Monday at a press conference in Minsk.
President of Belarus Aliaxandar Lukashenka issued Saturday a decree imposing a fixed value added tax (VAT) rate for the goods imported by sole traders from Russia. This rate is to be defined by the regional authorities of the Republic at their discretion. According to experts, the state treasury will not be replenished significantly. But the consumer and small-scale business will suffer - in Belarus as well as in Russia.
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