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Russia`s Own Interests are Still Dearer to It
18:10, 25/01/2007
Boris Gryzlov, speaker of Russia`s lower house of parliament, said the lack of a free trade zone and a single emission center made it impossible to introduce a single currency for the Russia-Belarus union project. 
18:09, 25/01/2007
The secretary general of Germany`s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Ronald Pofalla, expressed criticism of Belarus` human rights record. In an interview with BelaPAN, he said that the CDU was concerned about what he called flagrant violations of human rights, the lack of freedom of expression and the conviction of political dissidents on politically motivated charges in the country.
17:47, 25/01/2007
Today at 7.10 a.m. the chairman of the Belarusian Popular Front party’s Youth Council Ales Kalita was taken off a train when he was on a way to Vilnius. At a border station Gudagaj border guards confiscated Ales Kalita’s notebook and a flash-card.
17:33, 25/01/2007
Members of the “Young Front” organization are noting that over the recent days pressure on the organization activists has grown. During a press conference the Young Front activists have informed about different methods of coercion used by special services.
17:10, 25/01/2007
A criminal case against an activist of the Young Front Syarzhuk Huminski has been closed due to lack of evidence. On Thursday the Young Front activist was summoned to a police department of Vorsha. He was informed that a criminal action for making graffiti “Freedom to political prisoners”, “Freedom to Dashkevich”, “long live Belarus” and others had been stopped.
15:51, 25/01/2007
In Nyasvizh (Mink region) a local department of the Minsk regional press distribution union has refused to distribute the “Nyasvizhsky chas” regional newspaper through its newspaper stalls.
15:50, 25/01/2007
Igar Shinkarik, deputy head of the united Civil party could not leave for Lithuania on January 24. At the department on citizenship and migration of the Partizansky district division for internal affairs of Minsk he was informed that his passport had been with KGB.
15:50, 25/01/2007
Ministry of justice of Belarus asked for additional documents with regard to the foundation conference of the Union of left parties which was held in Chernigov on December 17. A corresponding letter signed by head of the department of public associations and political parties of the ministry of justice Aleg Slizheusky was received at the office of the Party of Communists Belarusian. This message was conveyed to the BelaPan by spokesman of the Party of Communists Belarusian Syargei Vaznyak.
12:56, 25/01/2007
Belarusian border guards effectively protect the external border of the union state with Russia and will not let terrorists into Belarus or Russia, the State Committee of Border Guard Troops said in Wednesday.
12:49, 25/01/2007
The oil and gas war between Russia and Belarus that broke out in late 2007, yesterday passed officially beyond the frame of a specifically economic conflict, the Vremia Novostey writes today. The power structures represented by deputy director of the Federal Security Service (FSB)-head of boarder guard of the FSB Victor Pronichev got involved into the conflict of the “union state “members. In his yesterday’s speech at the Council of Federation ,quite of a sudden, he attracted the senators’ attention to the transparency of the Russian and Belarusian border, calling it a “loophole” for terrorists.
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