On July 18 two activists of the United Civil party Arkadz Korkhau and Vasil Chytaeu stood the trial. They were accused of organizing an unsanctioned meeting in a private house in the vollage of Zalesye, Chacherski region.
The head of Brest regional branch of the Belarusian popular front party Yuras Hubarevich and oppositional activist from Belaziorsk Zmitser Tratsyak were fined for illegal entry in frontier zone.
Turkish Embassy in Belarus has not commented the statement of the head of the Central Electoral Committee Lidziya Yarmoshyna about her plans to go to Turkey for holidays. Does Turkey support the decision by the EU last year that bans entry to the territory of the EU for a number of Belarusian officials? And would Lidziya Yarmoshyna, also included in the list of unwelcome officials, have holidays in Turkey? Radio Svaboda addressed Turkish Embassy in Minsk for comments.
A long meeting of the chairman of the All-National strike committee of vendors, member of the Council of Civil Initiatives “Free Belarus” Valery Levaneuski with his family ended on July 15. The political prisoner told that he was refused conditional release recently, as he is considered to be a “malicious violator of discipline”, and will remain so until the end of the term, May 15, 2006. As said by Valery Levaneuski, the administration of the colony hinted him many times that he could be included into amnesty and granted early conditional release in case he would publicly abandon political activities and disband the strike committee headed by him. But the political prisoner also told that “bargaining is out of question for him, and future of Motherland, freedom of Belarus cannot be traded”.
Last week-end new regional meetings for nomination of candidates for the National Congress of the democratic forces took place. During the meetings it is planned to elect about 300 delegates from the whole country. At the Congress in September a single candidate of democratic forces to run in the presidential elections in 2006 is to be elected. Because of the interference of local authorities the meetings are often held secretly.
"I am concerned for my family," said Terry Boesch. On Friday, the U.S. professor, who has been teaching international law and business at Belarus State University after moving to the Eastern European country in 2003, was ordered to pack his bags, with his two young daughters. "I have never one time complained against the government of this country, and instead try to find positive things about its policies or personalities to comment upon," said
Belarus said yesterday it is expelling a Polish diplomat, in the latest diplomatic tit-for-tat expulsion between the two neighbors. Belarus has given Andrzej Buczak, an adviser in the Polish Embassy in Minsk, until 21 July to leave the country in retaliation for the expulsion of a Belarus diplomat from Poland.
The secretary of state of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, Pavel Borodin, suggested on Sunday that the U.S. dollar be made the currency of the Union State. "We`ve long been putting everything into dollars anyway," Borodin told a news conference. "We should have put everything into dollars a long time ago," he said.
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