The Minsk Highest Economic Court made a decision to force “New Life” church to sell its building which is located in Minsk, Kovalyova, 72. Remember that the initiator of the case was the Minsk City Territorial Fund of the State Property.
Hugo Chavez has invited Alyaksandr Lukashenka to visit Venezuela. As Venezuelan leader underlined, it’s a great honour for him to be the first Latin American president on Belarusian land.
US Ambassador George Krol has finished his diplomatic mission and left Belarus today. Before going back home, he visited Kurapaty, Eastern Cemetery in Minsk, and gave an exclusive interview to the Radio Svaboda.
A protest of he Belarusian trade union of radio electronics industry in Mahilyou postponed for August 9. Initially is was planned for July 25, but local authorities prohibited to hold a picket against denial of registration for trade union structures, primary and city organizations, Salidarnasts newspaper informs.
According to a correspondent of the agency “Kazakhstan Today” citing official representative of the Kazakh Foreign Ministry Yerzhan Ashiiikbayev, Aliaksandar Lukashenka is expected to be present at the launching of the first Belarusian satellite “BelKA” at Baikonur Cosmodrome.
As Head of Venezuela Hugo Cháves, who had arrived in Minsk on Sunday with an official visit, said, the views of the Venezuelan and Belarusian Presidents on foreign policy coincide. “Here we are among friends and brothers. We don’t want anyone to deceive and colonize us,” - he said.
“I arrived in Minsk to sign the treaty of unity and to lay the first stone of the future relations of Belarus and Venezuela,” - the Head of Venezuela remarked.
Violent detentions of demonstrators followed an action of support for ex-candidate for the presidential post Aliaksandar Kazulin held in Saligorsk. Activists of the local democratic youth movement lit candles and posted up a portrait of Aliaksandar Kazulin in the evening of July 22, on the central square of Saligorsk. Also the young people were distributing leaflets with the information about the sentence passed to A.Kazulin and with the appeal to express solidarity with the politician.
Details of proposals made by judge Rybakou for accused Aliaksandar Kazulin became known during the recent meeting of the ex-candidate for the presidential post with his family. As the politician’s press service reports, someone who introduced himself as Rybakou’s representative visited Kazulin and suggested removing all the information about judge Rybakou from the web-site of Aliaksandar Kazulin in exchange for the permission to meet with the family.
On July 18 robbers broke into an apartment of Viktar Kazlou, a representative of the Belarusian Trade Union of Workers of Radio Electronics Industry in Homel region. According to www.praca-by.info, the burglars have turned everything inside out, but haven’t taken anything.
For a few days there has been no information about whereabouts of a young activist Dzyanis Dzyanisau, the United Civil Party’s press service reports today. The young activist is also a member of the UCP. On July 22 in the evening Dzyanisau was to meet with his friends, but he didn’t shown up. Since that time his phone was out of coverage. Dzyanisau’s friends say that in their phone talks yesterday he constantly told that people in mufti were following him all the time since morning.
Minsk authorities banned holding a concert on July 27 on Bangalore Square. The BelaPAN was informed about that by Valyantsina Svyatskaya, one of the organizers of the concert.
On Saturday, July 22, near the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Minsk two activists of Russian youth organization “Oborona”. Nikolay Zboroshenko and Ekaterina Vinokurova, who is the leader of the youth organization of the Republican party of Russia, took part in the rally with a demand to stop Russian support of Lukashenka’s regime.
Mutual operative-tactical exercises of the troops of the Northwestern operative-tactical commandment of the Air Forces and the air-raid troops of the Belarusian Armed Forces are scheduled for July 25, 2006, in compliance with the preparation plan of the Armed Forces. The active phase of the exercises with battle shooting will be held on the Russian target range “Ashuluk”.
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