The General Prosecutor’s Office has extended for a month an investigation term in the criminal case relating intimidation of the director of Shchuchyn Polish house Viktor Bogdan. The investigation lasts for 4 months already. The suspects in the case are deputy heads of the Union of Poles in Belarus (organization not recognized by the authorities) Jozef Porzecki and Wieslaw Kiewlak, and journalists Andrzej Pisalnik and Andrzej Poczobutt. Recently the case was submitted from Shchuchyn district police department to Hrodna regional department.
No official confirmation was given on December 28 for Viktor Sheiman`s reported resignation as head of Aleksandr Lukashenko`s Presidential Administration. Lidiya Yermoshina, chairwoman of the central election commission, had told reporters in Minsk the previous day that Mr. Sheiman had decided to hand in his resignation to concentrate on work as head of the incumbent president`s nomination group for the forthcoming presidential election. Belarusian regulations ban presidential contenders to use in their campaign persons who are in professional or other subordination to them.
Despite the adoption of the ambitious Belarus Democracy Act last year, Washington`s strategy toward Minsk now is more like a series of small stings rather than massive pressure to support democracy. A number of both domestic and foreign issues have prevented the US from an active policy with regard to Belarus last year.
Pen vs. Sword 13:42, 29/12/2005, By Philip Kennicott, Washington Post Staff Writer
After more than a year in the United States, Iryna Vidanava says she doesn`t feel like an idiot when she smiles on the street. In her homeland of Belarus, spontaneous good humor toward strangers just isn`t done in public places. In the grimly efficient, Soviet-era subway and on the rattletrap buses that ply the drab streets of Minsk, almost every face is studiously expressionless. Even most young people put up a shell and stay nervously within it.
Today at 12 p.m. in Minsk a presentation of the program of social and economical development of Belarus prepared by the candidate for presidency, Alyaksandr Milinkevich, nominated at the Congress of Democratic Forces. The presentation will be held in a form of a round table with participation of a big group of scientists and experts in this sphere.
Just as the west begins to pack away the tinsel and distant relatives for another year, the Russian Orthodox Christmas rolls into view. The official date for celebrations is January 7. This year, however, Mother Russia will receive her biggest gift unusually early. On Sunday, the UK hands the presidency of the G8 to Russia. The former evil empire, the target of the west`s fiery rhetoric and nuclear missiles for most of the last century, has well and truly come in from the cold.
Preparations for the G8 summit in St Petersburg are being kept under wraps, with the last news posting on the official summit website dated six months ago. Given the city`s embarrassment of cultural and architectural riches, world leaders can expect to be dazzled in a way that Gleneagles, for all its tartan-clad luxury, could not hope to match.
On December 28 a judge of the court of Kastrychnitski district of Vitsebsk Valyantsina Mikhasyova judged to fine 5 Vitsebsk dwellers for an unsanctioned picket for 20 basic units (Article 167-1).
Representatives of six political parties have gone into the territorial election commissions formed in Minsk. The BelaPAN was informed about that by the secretary of the Central Election Committee of Belarus Mikalay Lazavik.
An entrepreneur from Vaukavysk Mikalay Autukhovich started to eat a little with the help of a doctor-nutritionist. In the therapeutic department of the regional hospital a policemen stays, as contacts of Autukhovich are to be limited, as he is under house arrest.
Police refuse to release Zubr activists Aliaksandr Kazakou and Dmitry Zubro who had been detained last night. They are accused of making graffiti dedicated to Day of solidarity. First they were accused of violating article 156 of administrative code (hooliganism). According to Belarusian legislation criminal charge can be brought for graffiti. And there is a danger that it will be started against Zubr activists.
In 2010 in the capital of Belarus a construction of a cultural and sports complex “Minsk-Arena” for 20,000 seats, the Interfax was informed in the institute “Belproekt”. As said by the expert of the institute, chief designer, it would be the largest closed sports complex in Belarus. At the moment the seating capacity of analogous buildings does not exceed 5,000 seats.
The head of the Cuban diplomatic mission has noted that this type of cooperation is becoming increasingly important in the wake of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Cuba has received about 19 thousand children affected by the tragedy for recuperation over the recent two decades. Most part of the children has come from Ukraine. There is a health care center in Cuba with a unique data-base which provides information on treatment of thyroid cancer. Belarus has also gained a wealth of experience in this sphere. The ambassador thinks, the doctors of both the states could unite their efforts in this area. Belarus and Cuba are extending contacts in health care and the appropriate ministries of the two states have singed an agreement to that end.
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