The government of Russia has approved an agreement with Belarus on supplies of sugar. Russian prime minister Mikhail Fradkov has vested the agriculture ministry with the responsibility to sign the agreement, BelTA learnt in the press service of the Russian cabinet of ministers.

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Belarus: Just having a European Union sticker on one`s backpack appears to be enough to attract police attention in the Belarusian capital, as the country`s repressive leadership braces for what is expected to be a major opposition rally on Sunday.

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It was one year ago, on March 22, when the Belarusian people were standing on the Square of Kalinouski the third day. There came more and more young people, new tents were put up. People were arriving to the Square every evening. Some of them fetched food, others - warm clothes; some stayed for the night. On those days the Square was the meeting place for the people of Minsk.

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The Russian youth movement “Smena” (“Successors”) is holding an action of support for the Belarusian people on the Day of Will on March 25. A statement was published on the Internet site of the organization: “Our neighbors celebrate this day as the 89th anniversary of the establishment of the Belarusian People’s Republic. All of us - Belarusians, Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians and many other - were struggling for freedom and the right for the fair election here, in the streets of Minsk, one year ago. We invite all those who were in Minsk last year as well as common citizens who are not indifferent towards the fate of our neighbors. We invite everyone to come and to commemorate that day, to express support for the firm Belarusian opposition activists who have been fighting with the dictatorship in their country for many years.”

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Youth activist Aleg Korban was released after three hours of his detainment .The militiamen of the Partisan district of Minsk asked Korban where the white-red-white flags and information leaflets about the Day of Freedom action on 25 March could be kept.

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BNF party assistant leader Viktar Ivashkevich gave replies to the questions posed by the audience of Radio Svaboda concerning the celebration of the Day of Will on March 25.

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President of Venezuela Ugo Chaves accepted State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Viktar Sheiman in Karakas on Wednesday. In the official communiqué of the government on the outcomes of the meeting is it stressed that the program of cooperation of the two countries on gasification of the Venezuelan towns as well as on set-up of the joint venture on assembling Belarusian tractors and lorries were discussed.

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Today a clip to the Capital , a new song of Syargey Mikhalok is very popular in Internet today. Among the clip characters are Saddam Hussein, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, Ugo Chaves, and Kim Chen Ire and Alyaksandr Lukashenka. “Sneakers is in my right hand, in the left hand- Mars .My PR manager is Karl Marx “, Mikhalok is singing about the world’s villains.

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A number of mass cultural events are to take place in the frame of the republican social patriotic action ”For Independent Belarus” in Minsk 25 March. That was announced to BelaPAN by the press-service of the Minsk Executive Committee.

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Chairman of the Rada of the Belarusian People’s Republic Ivonka Survilla appealed to the Belarusian people on occasion of celebration of the 89th anniversary of declaration of the BPR. “With great hope I am calling you, dear Belarusian compatriots, who are at home and abroad, for demonstrating 25 March that we are the united nation able to revive our motherland and to leave not “the last dictatorship in Europe” but free Belarusian People’s Republic to our children and grandchildren”, it is said in the appeal of the chairman of the BPR Rada the text of which is presented underneath:

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21 March evening administration of the Mogilyou prison #43 where youth leader Artur Finkevich is serving out his 2 years’ term of imprisonment didn’t allow head of the OSCE Minsk Office Oke Peterson to meet him.

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