Belaya Rus Meeting held in Musical Comedy Theatre. Journalists are not admitted :: Charter'97 :: News

Journalists of non-state mass media haven’t been admitted to the founding congress of Minsk city branch of the public association “Belaya Rus”. Branches of this public association are being created all over the country with unprecedented speed. A journalist of Belaruskaya Gazeta Kiryl Zhyvalovich, a press photographer Dzmitry Brushko and a reporter of “Ezhednevnik” newspaper Andrei Aleksandrovich were detained at the entrance to the building of Musical Comedy theatre. The police was called in by organizers of the event.

As the Charter’97 press-center was informed by the reporter Kiryl Zhyvalovich, unknown people in mufti stopped the way into the theatre. These people refused to present themselves. When journalists demanded to tell the reasons why they could not attend the congress, people in mufti called in police. Policemen arrived in a moment. After checking documents of the journalists they agreed reporters couldn’t enter. Policemen hadn’t told the reasons for not admitting journalists; however they observed they had been ordered not to let unauthorized persons enter.

“At the moment buses with representatives of executive committees and state-run enterprises are arriving to the building of the Musical Comedy theatre. All of them say they will decide “key issues of mechanism of our government,” Kiryl Zhyvalovich told Charter’97 press-center.

As we have informed, in the run-up to the meeting its initiators addressed city dwellers with a call to “join efforts to support the policy carried out by the state, to defend out citizens from destructive effect of ill-wishers from abroad”.

Among the initiators of foundation of a city branch of Belaya Rus are a TV presenter Alyaksandr Averkau, Distinguished Artist of Belarus Alyaksei ISaeu, a poet, an author of the Belarusian anthem Uladzimir Karyzna, a three-time Olympic champion Alyaksandr Myadzvedz (Alexander Medved).