The money collected by Dzyanis Dzyanisau’s friends and relatives allowed him to be released on April 11. the criminal action has been closed, however the money still are at disposal of investigative authorities. As soon as they would be returned, the organizer of money collection Zhana Jamajkina is going to give back the money to all those who had transferred them.
On June 11 dozens of vendors gathered near the building of Rechytsa district executive committee (Homel region) with a demand to give them a new place for work after the Slavyanski market was closed for capital improvement.
Belarus is to cancel indebtedness of the first half of the year for Russian gas deliveries before the end of this year”, Russian Ambassador to Belarus Alexander Surikov told a Monday news conference in Minsk. “Belarus should pay off the gas debt before the end of this year,” A. Surikov said. He reminded that in January-July Belarus pays 55% of the cost of gas delivered to Belarus. The parts have agreed on that in connection with a gas price hike for Belarus in 2007, from $46.7 per 1,000 cubic m to $100 çà 1,000 cubic m.
9 June political prisoner was allowed to spend less than two hours out of the commendant’s headquaters. Yesterday major Uladzimir Mikhailau allowed Artur to leave the guarded territory for an hour and half. Protesting against the arbitrary behavior of the authorities the political prisoner refused such like “ mercy”, the Radio Svaboda informs.
Minor Khristina Mikhailava was given a medical conclusion of the inflicted brain concussion.
6 June the girl with several other people was heavily beaten by the militiamen at the Pervamaisky district court of Vitebsk.
The printed body of the local cit executive committee and the city council the newspaper “Pinski Vesnik” placed on the first page of today’s issue information titled “All the fuss about….”satellite”. The head of the housing and communal services of Pinsk Viktar Peryshch gives explanations to the readers.
Former minister of defense Pavel Kazlousky commented on outcomes of the last week’s G8 summit in Germany. “Putin’s proposal is certainly a very serious step, Pavel Kazlousky said in his interview with the “Tavarisch” newspaper. So, Belarus with its present leadership is left far beneath such level. Under no circumstances despite of all ”alliance-like” relations with Russia should our country make politics on this issue”.
During a one-day visit to Brussels a deputy Foreign Minister Valer Varanetski met Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy. The planned talks with the leadership of the European Union Council haven’t taken place on technical grounds.
A young activist Zmitser Liseenka was detained at bout 3 a.m. on Saturday near the administration of Kastrychnitski district of Vitsebsk for writing a slogan “Free Kazulin!” on a concrete fence. After drawing up a report the young man was sent to a remand prison. The trial was held in the afternoon, without a lawyer. Only policemen were witnesses.
A decaying Russian nuclear dump inside the Arctic Circle is threatening to catch fire or explode, turning it into a "dirty bomb" that could impact the whole of northern Europe, including the British Isles.
A group of artists took part in an open-air painting session in Hrodna on June 10 to protest a project to redevelop the city`s historic part. At least 16 painters, including Ales Pushkin, Alyaksey Marachkin, Ales Shaternik, Mikhail Anempadystaw and Dzmitry Ivanowski, participated in the session to depict Hrodna`s Old Town and the buildings that the authorities plan to demolish.
A concert “For Belarus!” is planned on June 23 in Homel. It is a day of Ivan Kupala (St. John`s Feast, Midsummer Night) in the old style calendar. Well-known Belarusian bards are to take part in the concert. The event is organized by Homel public association of regional ethnographers “Talaka”, and a regional organization of the Belarusian language society.
In the framework of an informal CIS summit held in St. Petersburg (Russia), a meeting of Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Viktar Yushchenko. As UNIAN agency informs with a reference to a press-secretary of Ukrainian president Irina Vannikova, Yushchenko “exchanges opinions” with Lukashenka “on the state of readiness to signing bilateral documents on border cooperation, and on cooperation in legal, consultative and energy spheres”. There have been no reports about a meeting of Lukashenka and Putin.
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