The cooperation of the Central Election Committee with the OSCE during the presidential elections in Belarus would be complicated by the decision of the EU regarding the head of the CEC Lidziya Yarmoshyna (Ermoshina). This opinion would be expressed by the secretary of the CEC Mikalay Lazavik (Lozovik) at a press conference in Minsk on September 29. Entry to the territory of the EU countries is banned for L.Yarmoshyna, as she is considered to be involved in rigging the results of the parliamentary elections and referendum in 2004.

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This question is to be answered by public servants from the Prosecutor’s Office and Department of the Interior Ministry of Belarus, to which the leader of the All-National Striek Committee of Vendors, member of the Council of Civil Initiatives “Free Belarus” Valery Levaneuski addressed. (The copy of the appeal can be found at http://www.levonevski.net/zone/doc230.htm). The information provided by one of Levaneuski’s cell-mates.

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Today the staff of the independent newspaper “Narodnaya Volya” prepares the tomorrow’s number. It is possible that the Saturday issue would be printed as well. Tomorrow issue is to be dedicated solely to the situation of the newspaper. The printing house “Krasnaya Zvezda” and the state distributor “Belsajuzdruk” refused to print and deliver the only independent daily newspaper of Belarus.

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The resolution which is harsh in its wording and sense, with broad accusations of the current Belarusian government, has been passed today in Strasbourg by the European Parliament. It underlined that the “European Parliament resolutely condemns the Belarusian regime” for its numerous violations of human rights and democratic principles, including crackdown on mass media and “politically motivated persecution”.

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Printing house “Krasnaya zvezda”, where the newspaper “Narodnaya Volya” is published, and Minskgorsajuspdruk (state delivery enterprise) cancel agreements with the newspaper for its distribution and printing. The BelaPAN was told about that by the editor-in-chief Iosif Syaredzich. As said by him, on September 28 the newspaper transferred more than 70 mln rubles from the sum of the fine of 100 mln rubles. The newspaper is to pay this sum to the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Syarhei Hajdukevich as a compensation for moral damage by one of the articles.

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Before the Congress, key players of Belarusian politics declared about their readiness to work in one team. ”This Congress will become a real public meeting for those who want changes in the country” was stated in the Declaration signed by Alexander Voitovich, Sergej Kaliakin, Vladimir Kolos, Anatolij Lebedko, Vasilij Leonov, Alexander Milinkevich, Vladimir Parfenovich, Nikolaj Statkevich, Valerij Frolov, Stanislav Shushkevich, Alexander Yaroshuk. “We will do all possible for having one democratic candidate at electoral campaign. In order to make this candidate win, we will need support of all voters who want changes, but we will also need a professional team of democrats – people with big experience in different areas of politics, economy, culture. We will be in this team.”

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Minsk militia will provide security on October 1 and 2 at the territory adjusted to MAZ House of Culture. This was the content of the letter, sent at the name of UCP leader Anatolij Lebedko. The letter was signed by the Minister of Internal Vladimir Naumov.

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The head of the political and economic department of US Embassy to Belarus Derek Hogan came on a visit to Brest on 23 September. During his stay in the city the diplomat and his moves were watched by law enforcement and the state television.

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On 26 September according to the information from the businessmen, the Supreme Economic Court together with the representatives of Brest Regional Executive Committee will consider whether it is legal to request that cab owners pay a Republican fee. The businesswomen Lubou Laurukovich and Lubou Rezanovich continue the hunger-strike started on 20 September though the first deputy chair of the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus Iauhien Smirnou issued a regulation that suspended the sanctions against the Brest businesswomen required by the taxation agency to a Republican fee for using their cars for commercial purposes. This fee was introduced in accordance with Aliaxandr Lukashenka`s decree in April, however it started to be applied retroactively - with respect to the cars brought to Belarus much earlier.

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ImageVietnam’s communist government knows that it is impossible to monitor the country’s 5,000 cyber cafes, so it’s forcing the cafe owners to be its eyes and ears. Last July, a government directive informed cafe owners that they will have to take a six-month course so that they can better monitor their cyber customers. The Vietnamese government is justifying its move for reasons of "national security and defense" — that is, to protect itself against online journalists who, it says, "provide sensationalist news and articles while others even publish reactionary and libelous reports and a depraved culture."

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