An entrepreneur from Vaukavysk, Mikalay Autukhovich, has gone on hunger strike in the remand prison in Hrodna. Radio Svaboda has been reported about that today, when the food brought by his father Mikalay Autukhovich and a lawyer Andrei Kukhtsiuk, was not taken, as the prisoner had gone fasting.
The Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions’ protest action against crackdown ob independent trade unions, which was to be carried out on October 22 in Minsk at Bangalore Square, is shocked by the answer of Minsk city executive committee.
Officials from Homel Region Executive Committee think that the main drawback of cable TV is lack of cooperation with local authorities. This idea was pronounced by Anatol Katsila, head of the Executive Committee`s Ideology Department, at a seminar in Mozyr where officials from the Ministry of Information and Belarusian TV Association, heads of Ideology Departments of Region and District Executive Committees and owners of cable networks from various districts of Homel Region gathered to discuss their work. A report on this seminar was published in "Homelskaja Prauda" (## 159-160 of October 13).
The trouble with revolutions is that they raise expectations. When revolutionary change fails to materialise, disillusion sets in. That is the case to some extent in former Soviet Georgia. And it is the problem confronting Viktor Yushchenko, elected Ukraine`s hero-president after last year`s "orange revolution".
Officers of the KGB (Committee of State Security) establishes an observation center by the house of the single oppositional candidate for presidency, Alyaksandr Milinkevich, in he village of Bershty, Shchuchyn region. This information was disseminated by one of the representatives of local authorities, who asked not to disclose his name.
A rehearing of a district tax office`s suit against the Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC) is expected to be held in the Supreme Economic Court (SEC) in the near future. As BHC Deputy Chairman Garri Pogonyailo told BelaPAN, the court notified the human rights organization last week that SEC Deputy Chairman Yevgeny Smirnov had appealed the decision by the court`s panel to annul back taxes and fines imposed on the BHC by the tax authorities.
The Russian liberal politician Grigoriy Yavlinskiy believes that the Kremlin plays a crucial role in the political situation in Belarus. "Belarus has the regime Russia wants to see there," he said in an interview with Belapan. "If Russia wanted to see another regime, it would have long been there (in Belarus)."
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said that his country backs all decisions with regard to Belarus made by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the European Union.
A string correspondent of the oppositional newspaper “Narodnaya Volya” Vasil Hrodnikau (Grodnikov) was found dead today in his house in the town of Zaslaul, Minsk district. The Charter’97 press center was informed about that by the representatives of the newspaper. The reporters say that they have no versions of the events still, as they do not have enough information. It was the family of Vasil Hrodnikau who informed that he was murdered.
Political prisoner Valery Levaneuski filed an application to the district court of Ivatsevichy. He asks to collect 481,000 Belarusian rubles from the colony number 22 “Vouchyja Nory”. The political prisoner decided to sue the colony after learning from the materials of a check by Byaroza interregional labour inspection, that it had been registered that he had worked for 82 hours in July and August. As said by V.Levaneuski, he works as a cleaner in the medical unit of the colony every day, without days off. Simultaneously he works as a hospital attendant and performing other duties. Meanwhile he was paid only Br 58,000 for the two months.
Belarusian state television aired a misleading, cynical and inaccurate report on Tuesday, October 11th concerning a donation by the U.S. European Command to the Turov Regional Hospital in Gomel region.
The head of the sociological service “Ukrainian Barometer”, political analyst Viktor Nebozhenko believes that in the course of the visit of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov to Belarus problems of foreign economic activity. Nebozhenko told about that in his interview to “Glavred” agency on Monday.
Ann Arbor, MI; Bloomington, IN; Istanbul, Turkey; London, Canada; London, United Kingdom; Santa Cruz, CA; Boston, MA; Washington, DC–For hundreds of Students around the world, October 15th was not just another Saturday: it was a day to commemorate the courage of democracy advocates in the Eastern European nation of Belarus. Held in the iron grip of dictator Aleksandr Lukashenka, Belarus, a country known as “Europe’s last dictatorship”, held a flawed referendum that perpetuated strongman rule exactly one year ago. In a show of solidarity with pro-democracy youth groups in Belarus, Students for Global Democracy (SGD) organized the “Worldwide Walk for Democracy in Belarus.”
Ten men gathered in a dim three-room apartment one recent evening to plan the unseating of this country`s autocratic president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko. They have little money, no slogans, no songs and, so far, no color like the orange that thousands rallied around during the popular uprising last year in Ukraine. What they have is a hope, admittedly slight, that the wave of democracy that washed over Ukraine and other former Soviet republics in the last two years might next hit here.
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