The prosecutor’s office has filed a claim against the head of Ashmyany-based headquarters of Milinkevich’s campaign. Yesterday and today Pyotr Yavidovich was summoned to the regional prosecutor’s office and warned that a criminal action had been initiated against him on administrative charges. The prosecutor’s office has charged him with early agitation, and besides with urging citizens to take part in an unsanctioned meeting.
The headquarters of the leader of the democratic forces of Belarus, Alyaksandr Milinkevich, has received a message from a Vitsebsk dweller Aleh Sidarau, who informed that on January 16 a schoolgirl of the 9th form of the secondary school number 6 Viktoria Volovdina collected signatures for nomination Alyaksandr Lukashenka as candidate for presidency. She addressed Aleh Sidarau with a proposal to subscribe for Lukashenka.
On January 16 in the evening in Salihorsk a car ran into a democratic activist Hanna Sysun, a member of the initiative group number 5 for nomination of democratic leader Alyaksandr Milinkevich for the presidential race in Belarus. The car was driving at a high speed. The hit-and-run driver disappeared.
Breast branch of the republican unitary enterprise “Belposhta” refused to conclude an agreement with the editorial office of the independent newspaper “Brestskij Kurjer” for despatch, transporting and delivery of the newspaper for the regional branches of the republican unitary enterprise “Brestsajuzdruk”. Henadz Tsitou, a director of the branch, believes that such an agreement is “impractical”, the press service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists informs.
This year Russia and Belarus can hold a referendum on the project of the Constitution act of the so-called “union state” of Russia and Belarus. “I hope that this year we will organize a referendum on the Consitution act”, - Boris Gryzlov, the Speaker of the State Duma, said Thursday.
In 2006 more than 60 million dollars will be allocated from the state budget for development of mass media. It is 20 millions more that in the last year, and is twice as much as the sum allocated for the mass media in 2004, the press service of the Belarusian Association of Journalists informs.
Leader of the Conservative-Christian party BNF Zianon Pazniak regards the official note passed January 18 by the Central Election Committee to his spearhead group as an ultimatum. “We face the ultimatum: if we go on spreading information about the people’s voting, the signatures we have collected so far will be nullified” - Z.Pazniak comments on the situation. Pazniak addressed the members of his spearhead group asking to “ignore the ultimatum, to continue intensive collection of signatures and to inform the society about the necessity and procedure of the people’s voting”. “All our actions are based on the Constitution and laws and do not contradict the election legislature” - Z.Pazniak emphasizes.
Minister of Defense Colonel-General Leanid Maltsau told the correspondent of the National News Agency that the reforms of the ideological structures of the Belarusian Armed Forces are practically over.
200, 000 signatures have been collected already in support of the leader of the united democratic forces of Belarus Alyaksandr Milinkevich, the head of the election headquarters of the opposition candidate Syarhei Kalyakin has informed today. Before January 27 the initiative group of Alyaksandr Milinkevich expects to collect 300, 000 signatures.
The Belarusian side has invited a number of international organizations and inter-parliamentarian structures, including the CIS, the EurAsEC, the CSTO and ODHR OSCE for participation in international observation, the acting press secretary of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Andrei Papou said at a briefing in the FM.
Today Aliaxandar Bukhvostau, the manager of the spearhead group of the united opposition candidate for the oncoming presidential election, sent to the Central Election Committee and the Office of Public Prosecutor of Belarus three new complaints with law violations revealed during the signatures collection for A.Lukashenka.
Remedial organization Human Rights Watch edited the annual report on the human rights situation of 70 countries of the world for 2005. As Radio Svaboda informs, it is stated in the comprehensive document containing more than 500 pages that the human rights situation in Belarus aggravated within the past year.
“We are holding observation in the Republic of Belarus for the third time. We communicate with the Central Election Committee, analyze electoral legislation. To our mind, and we are clarifying all the recent decisions, related to the concrete presidential elections, the Belarusian election legislation comply with the international standards, and those legislative instruments passed in the framework of the CIS,” told the head of the observers’ mission of the Commonwealth of the Independent States in Minsk on January 18 the head of the CIS observation mission, Executive Secretary of this organization Vladimir Rushailo.
Vladimir Rushailo, head of the CIS long-term observation mission to be deployed for Belarus` presidential election, said his team would not recognize results of exit polls. Mr. Rushailo pointed out that exit polls are unreliable because interviewers employed are usually poorly trained and unfamiliar with methodology. "Is there a guarantee that a voter who has cast his ballot for candidate X tells the truth to an interviewer at the exit from the polling station?" he said at a news conference in Minsk on Wednesday.
The central election commission on Wednesday directed that presidential contenders should submit their income and property statements to the agency before February 11.
Each presidential candidate in Belarus will be provided with about 70 million Belarussian rubles, or about $30,000, from the national budget to conduct their presidential campaigns, Belarusian Central Elections Commission chief Lidia Yermoshina told journalists on Wednesday.
Aleksandr Milinkevich, united opposition forces` presidential contender, described the central election commission`s warning as "far-fetched" and announced plans to contest it in the Supreme Court. The election authority on Wednesday issued an official warning to Mr. Milinkevich`s camp over alleged early electioneering.
The General Secretary of the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM) on behalf of 20 mln members from 122 countries of the world addressed the Director General of Grodno-Azot Plc. with a letter upholding the primary organization of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union (BITU).
Belarus is ready to support projects involving LUKoil, Russia`s leading independent crude producer, aimed at reconstructing and modernizing Belarusian companies, the country`s president said Wednesday.
Chinese telecommunications equipment company Zhongxing Telecom Equipment Corporation (ZTE) plans to build a plant in Belarus to produce mobile telephones, Chinese Ambassador to Belarus Wu Hongbin told a news conference Wednesday.
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