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Andres Herkel: Russian Deputies Recognize Completely Different Values
18:05, 13/04/2006
Andres Herkel, Rapporteur on Belarus and Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) Belarus subcommittee, told to the Radio Svaboda that the resolution of the Assembly looks exactly the way he wanted to see it. “I am satisfied with the final text of the Resolution, and amendments even improved it. The words of Russian deputy Viktor Kolesnikov show the great difference between, for instance, my estimation of the election and the estimation by Russian representatives, and that it’s a great problem. The majority has supported my report however,” Mr Herkel said. 
17:03, 13/04/2006
As the Charter’97 press center was informed by journalist Iryna Khalip, who is covering the work of the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Russia’s support of the Belarusian dictatorship was raised by many participants of today’s debate on situation in Belarus. “Support of dictatorships does not correspond to the Council of Europe’s standards, and Russia does not have choice. It must stop supporting Alyaksandr Lukashenka,” told a deputy of Polish Sejm Tadeusz Iwinski addressing the PACE session.
16:16, 13/04/2006
Several days ago a legal group of Alyaksandr Kazulin’s headquarters addressed citizens and asked them to help in search of young activists of the electoral campaign, that have disappeared after breaking-up a tent camp and a peaceful rally on March 25. Today the press secretary of Alyaksandr Kazulin, Nina Shydlouskaya, has told to the Charter’97 press center that these people are not found yet.
14:04, 13/04/2006
Today businessman Mikalay Autukhovich as taken to the court of Hrodna from Vaukavysk. He was serving five days of administrative arrest there. Judge of Kastrychnitski district court of Hrodna Mikalay Rachynski changed the measure of restraint for him from home arrest to imprisonment, the Radio Svaboda informs.
13:39, 13/04/2006
“After democratic changes in Georgia and Ukraine Moscow more than ever before fears that any alternative to Lukashenka under the sign of “revolutions export” supported by the EU would drive Belarus away from Russia in the direction of the European Union. The elections n Belarus and their results would make Brussels to include the topic of Belarus in agenda of the EU-Russia summit and G8 summit,” told a German expert on Eastern Europe Heinz Timmermann in an interview to the Deutcshe Welle.
12:46, 13/04/2006
The art director of Moscow theatre “Sovremennik” Galina Volchek cannot stop expressing her indignation at meanness of Lukashenka’s propagandists, who had turned her popularity to their advantage.
12:13, 13/04/2006, Michael Den Tandt, «Globe and Mail», Canada
He was 22, just out of Laval University, and looking to try his hand at reporting from a foreign hot spot. But Frédérick Lavoie chose his locale a little too well.
11:58, 13/04/2006
A former Minister of Foreign Economic ties and Extraordinary Ambassador Mikhail Marynich can be released “at any time”, the Charter’97 press center was informed by the son of the political prisoner Pavel Marynich.
11:54, 13/04/2006, By Lionel Beehner, The Baltimore Sun
Despite the weeklong protests and round-the-clock vigils that ended in mass arrests recently, hope is not lost. Nor is the next opportunity to usher in democratic change in five years, when Alexander Lukashenko, Europe`s last dictator, is expected to seek a fourth term.
11:53, 13/04/2006, By David Marples, Eurasia Daily Monitor, DC
On Saturday April 8, Alexander Lukashenka was inaugurated for a third term as president of Belarus, eight days later than originally scheduled and following the most controversial election campaign in the brief history of the independent country. The stability of his extended presidency rests on relations with Russia and on the status of the opposition movement under rival presidential candidate Alexander Milinkevich, which gained significant momentum during and after the election.
11:52, 13/04/2006, By Valentinas Mite, RFE/RL
Alyaksandr Lukashenka has won the opportunity to continue serving as Belarus`s president, but he must now face harsh realities that could make his third term a rocky one. Looming large among them is a possible price hike for the gas imports Belarus depends on. Russia`s Gazprom recently announced that it will seek to triple the rate Belarus pays for its gas imports as a new contract for 2007 is negotiated. Such an outcome could increase pressure for changes in the way Belarus`s planned economy is run -- changes that Lukashenka is unlikely to back.
11:48, 13/04/2006
On Wednesday evening a flash mob called “First Cosmonaut of Independent Belarus” was planned in Minsk. Participants of the meeting wanted to launch “rockets with the first cosmonaut of the independent Republic of Belarus on board”. The rocket is balloons with helium, and the first cosmonaut is Lukashenka’s portrait.
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