Leader of Strike committee of entrepreneurs, political prisoner Valery Levaneuski transferred to prison hospital. According to son of political prisoner Uladzimir Levaneuski 28-30 of March Valery Levaneuski had long term meeting with relatives.

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Volga Paluychyk said to Radio Liberty that she had been interrogated in University by two KGB agents. They asked her how she met two activists of Hrodna department of “Young front”. They also expressed interest about her relations with Yauhien Skarabutan who had been expelled from the University for having calendar with portrait of Aliaksandr Milinkevich.

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A Polish journalist detained by Belarussian police during a demonstration in Minsk against the Lukashenko regime on March 24 has been released from prison. Weronika Samolinska, who writes for the mass circulation Gazeta Wyborcza daily, was sentenced to 10 days behind bars on March 27. She was detained alongside several hundred Belarussian opposition supporters when the police cracked down on protesters in Minsk. Among them was also a former Polish ambassador to Minsk Mariusz Maszkiewicz, who is now in hospital due to problems with his heart.

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Russia has begun supplies of modern S-300PS defense systems to Belarus, Air Force chief Vladimir Mikhailov told Itar-Tass upon arriving in the Belarusian capital on Monday. "Belarusians are literary fine fellows, doing everything on time and even slightly pacing ahead, in order to receive the modern air defense missile systems," Mikhailov said.

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Today about 11.30 member of the public organization “Belarusian Association of Journalists” (BAJ) Anton Taras was released from the special jail in Akrestsina Street where he had spent 11 days. Several journalists were released from Zhodzina special isolation jail: “BAJ” member Tatsiana Vanina (8 days) and Sviatlana Stankevich (8 days) were exonerated March 31, while Vadzim Kaznacheieu was exonerated at night April 2-3. Today at night journalist Darya Kastenka (10 days) was exonerated from the Minsk city executive committee interior department special jail. Andrzej Pisalnik (12 days), the editor of the newspaper “Glos znad Niemna na uchodzstwie” was set at liberty April 1.The trial of “Narodnaya Volia” journalist Valery Schukin was again postponed till April 6. Meanwhile our colleagues are still kept behind the bars: Belarusian journalists Artsiom Liava and Siargey Salash, Russian journalists Eduard Glezin, Oleg Kozlovskiy, Aleksandr Podrobinek, Ukrainian journalists Andrei Lubka and Pavel Salyga, Georgian operator Georgiy Lagidze, Polish correspondent Wieranika Samalinska and Canadian journalist Frederick Lavoie. All of them are kept in Aktrestsina Street.

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4 Russian people detained March 24 in Minsk at the non-sanctioned meeting of the Belarusian opposition were not released before the appointed time despite the request of the Russian embassy to Belarus.

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As BelTA was told in the Press-service of the Head of State, the ceremony of assumption of the office of the President of the Republic of Belarus Aliaxandar Lukashenka is to be held April 8, 2006. Resuscitated?

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Gianadz’ Niavyglas, the Head of the Belarusian President’s Administration, refuted the information on the pledged poor state of health of Aliaxandar Lukashenka. "Last Saturday we played a hockey match against the President and he defeated us with an excellent score. Hence I assure you that the President’s health is perfect," - G.Niavyglas told journalists Monday.

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16-year Andrei Kuzmienkou, detained on the Kastrychnitskaya Square during the dispersal of the meeting, has been in hospital for more than one week already. According to the “Komsomolskaya Pravda v Belorussii”, the under-the-age oppositionist was hurt during the detention and was hospitalized with the diagnosis “haematoma of kidney”.

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Aleksandr Kozulin, a candidate in Belarus’ recent presidential election arrested on March 25, refuses to answer investigators’ questions, saying that the charges against are politically motivated and were fabricated by the authorities to combat him as a political rival.

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The team of opposition politician Aleksandr Milinkevich, who ran for president in the March 14-19 election, on Friday started gathering information about Belarusians persecuted by the authorities during the presidential race.

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The Minsk Regional Soviet (elected council) on March 30 passed a statement to express "indignation at political and information pressure on the Belarusian leadership from the USA and a number of other Western countries," Belarus` state-run media outlets reported.

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Lithuanian TV and radio Commission prohibited all state-owned and private TV companies of the country to broadcast the programs of Belarusian state channels. The decision was preceded by the resolution of the Lithuanian parliament which recognized the election invalid. In its resolution the parliament of Lithuania calls the Belarusian authorities “dictatorial regime of Lukashenka”. It condemns the “repression against the opposition”. The Commission also says in its decision that Belarusian state TV channels spread misinformation.

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Sen. John McCain said Sunday the United States should respond harshly to Russia’s anti-democratic actions and suggested that President Bush is reconsidering his assessment of Russian President Vladimir Putin, MSNBC.com reports.

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Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of congratulations to His Excellency Mr Alexander Lukashenko, who has been re-elected as President of the Republic of Belarus.

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Almost one hundred of political prisoners were released today about 3 a.m. from the Minsk special distribution center and Zhodzina temporary isolation jail. Those are the people detained at the liquidation of the tent camp established on the Kastrychnitskaya Square at night, March 23-24. More than one thousand of people got imprisoned within the action. The number of arrested surpassing the number of cells in Minsk, the people were kept in isolation jails of Minsk district and Minsk region. From 3 a.m a “Radio Svaboda” correspondent met the people, who had spent 10 days behind the bars, by the gate of the Zhodzina isolation jail.

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