Minsk municipal executive committee declined the request for holding actions of support for Aliaksandar Kazulin in the Park of Peoples’ Friendship in Minsk. Today Deputy head of the Minsk municipal committee of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party Aliaksiey Sigayeu, who has applied for the authorization for the pickets, has received the reply signed by deputy chairperson of Minsk municipal executive committee M.Tsitsiankou.

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The members of the Vitsiebsk region organization of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (“Gramada”) ask the region’s Public Prosecutor Gianadz Dysko to appoint medical examination for former candidate for the Presidential post, party leader Aliaksandar Kazulin. A corresponding application was sent on July 5, by chairperson of the Party’s regional organization Anatol Gniauko.

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“We cannot use economically unreasonable schemes even for the sake of such an essential process as integration,” - Chairperson of the committee of directors of “Gazprom” and Russia’s Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in reply to a question posed by a correspondent of the newspaper “Vedomosti” on whether the integration with Belarus can impact the gas pricing.

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A criminal case has been reopened against four members of the public association “Union of Poles in Belarus” (UPB). The BelaPAN was told about that by the UPB activist, one of the persons person involved in the case, Andrei Poczobutt.

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Young activists of democratic forces are set to insist on putting Judge Tatsyana Pauliuchuk (the court of Tsentral district of Minsk) on the blacklist of officials not allowed to enter Europe. The BelaPAN was informed about that by one of initiators of the campaign Barys Haretski.

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Minsk municipal executive committee passed a resolution for advertisers, publicists and publicity distributors, based on the instruction of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from April 19, 2007, on the advertisement of the events of the National program for demographic security of Belarus for 2007-2010. The resolution adopted on behalf of the Ministry of Trade contains recommendations on the necessity of a wider usage of the image of a full happy family with more than 3 children in the advertisement of goods, works and services (as far as it concerns forming of the content and script).

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The Iranian military delegation headed by the Defense Minister studies the Belarusian experience in instructing military students, as Interfax was informed in the press-service of the Belarusian Defense Ministry.

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Belarus’ Prime Minister Siargey Sidorski spoke about the losses of the Belarusian economy induced by the changes in the energy resources trade with Russia, at the session of the government of the “union state” held in Moscow. Meanwhile, the Government reports to the State about significant progress in the economy within the past five months: gold and exchange currency reserves of the country enjoy rapid growth, the budget has been implemented with positive balance of approximately $ 742mln in the national cash equivalent and the number of unprofitable enterprises is decreasing. Where, in what paragraphs of Sidorski’s report do those losses hide?

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A monument to Pope John Paul II is to appear in the town of Valozhyn, Minsk region. The BELTA agency informs about that with a reference to the Chief Specialist of culture department of Valozhyn regional executive committee Valyantsina Batsyan.

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Another parliamentary election in Belarus is planned for October 12, 2008. This day has been named by the Central election commission of the country one of these days. However, liberalization of electoral legislation is one of requirements of western countries for improvement relations with the government. The head of the Belarusian Central Election Committee Lidziya Yarmoshyna told about her attitude top the demands of the international community in an interview to “Vremya Novostej”:

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The Ministry of Justice declined the request to register the republican public association of veterans and disabled of the Chernobyl tragedy consequences elimination “Likvidator” (“Liquidator”). As Aliaksandar Valchanin who has launched the idea of creation of the association told BelaPAN, he found out about the refusal from a letter of head of public associations department of the Ministry of Justice Aleg Slizheuski, on July 3. “And that was him who assured European politicians in Geneva that in Belarus there were no problems with registration for public associations,” - A.Valchanin emphasized.

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Beijing police gave a high esteem to the actions of the interior forces of Minsk for enforcement of law during mass performances, as deputy chief of the municipal interior department of Minsk, chief of the police of social security and special police forces Aliaksandar Naidzienka said at an executive meeting in the city administration.

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As chairperson of the presidium of the National Academy of Sciences Mikhal Miasnikovich said at a meeting with the scientific delegation from Venezuela, the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences welcomes collaboration of Belarus and Venezuela in the spheres of biological research, information and geographic information technologies.

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A criminal action against the leader of Salihorsk-based branch of the Young Front Ivan Shyla is sent for trial by the prosecutor’s office. In this connection on Friday Ivan was summoned to an investigator to get acquainted with the materials of the case. It is expected that Shyla’ status of a suspect would be changed to a status of an accused.

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Young activists Ales Kalita and Pavel Seradzenka have been sentenced to 15 and 10 days of administrative arrest respectively. This decision has been taken by the court of Tsentralny district of Minsk on July 4.

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The European Union should be more active and assertive in the democratization of Belarus, and move swiftly to be more efficient, Alyaksandr Milinkevich, leader of the Movement for Freedom, said in a letter to the European Union (EU)`s leaders, MEPs and all the EU citizens.

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In the near future Belarus is to put out tender for construction of a nuclear power station. It has been stated by Prime Minister Syarhei Sidorski in Moscow. Appropriate decisions have been already taken, and now volume and sources of financing, location of the important object are discussed. The Russian side has many times stated its readiness to take part in construction of the first Belarusian nuclear station. There many reasons to think that the tender commission would make a corresponding choice.

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