Belarusian banks are offered to grant Br 680 billion loans both in Belarusian rubles and in foreign currency for construction and reconstruction and technical re-equipment and maintenance of objects of the agricultural productive complex. The offer is contained in the President’s Order # 313 of 9 July 2007.

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In today’s edition of a half-state newspaper “Vecherniy Grodno” the following is written: “We won’t see ancient road edgestone with a brand of Hrodna city hall in the historic centerofthe city any more. They have been transfer according to a list for reuse as a used material to building estates”.

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Russian communists have accepted permanent Cuban leader Fidel Castro, President of Venezuela Ugo Chavez and Alyaksandr Lukashenka distinguished by their hard rhetoric towards the West as the symbols of their forthcoming electoral campaign to the Duma (Russian parliament).

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The organizers of the concert of bardic music of June 23 which hosted a range of well-known bards - Andrei Melnikau, Zmitsier Bartosik, Valzhyna Tsiareschanka, Zmitsier Vinagradau and beginner musician Yaugen Valoshyn - were summoned to the local taxes and duties inspectorate.

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Prosecutor of Minsk Lenin district Aliaksiey Stuk, who participated in the investigations on the criminal case on former candidate for the Presidential post Aliaksandar Kazulin, has recently been promoted. Now he holds the position of deputy Public Prosecutor of Minsk. In addition, judge of Moscow district of Minsk Aliaksiey Rybakou, who judged on Kazulin’s criminal case, became the judge of Minsk municipal court.

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Persecution of activists of the unregistered “Young Front” continues. For today two criminal actions have been brought up against activists under articles which are “popular” in this situation, “activities on behalf of an unregistered organization”. Recently the court of Salihorsk district received the criminal case of the Salihorsk branch of the Young Front, a 16-year-old Ivan Shyla. He has submitted a written undertaking not to leave the place. The trial is expected to start in the beginning of August. Recently Ivan Shyla got acquainted with materials of his criminal case which consists of 5 volumes. Barys Haretski, a press-secretary of the unregistered “Young Front”, comments the situation to the Narodnaya Volya:

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The Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE held in Kiev created a precedent by adopting for the first time a separate resolution on a separate country, i.e., on Belarus. The resolution contains the condition for Alyaksandr Lukashenka: the Belarusian authorities have to participate in the international conference on the situation in their home country and promulgate the measures taken for democratization of the parliamentary elections appointed for the next year autumn, the Nezavisimoya Gazeta writes. Otherwise the efforts of the Belarusian ruler to create the image of the new European-oriented Belarus will be in vain.

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Belarus and Venezuela are set to work out joint measures aimed at increasing effectiveness of Belarusian-Venezuelan cooperation, and to give it necessary dynamics. It’s the main aim of the official visit of the Belarusian governmental delegation headed by the Secretary of the Security Council Viktar Sheiman.

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Yesterday Radio Liberty’s web-site and then the web-site of Charter’97 reported on political prisoner Artur Finkievich. In the colony Artur met with human rights activist Ludzmila Graznova, who afterwards wrote an article, published in the newspaper “Svobodnyie Novosti Plus”, on the life of the political prisoner in jail. After that head of Magiliou special commandant’s office lieutenant colonel Aliaksandar Lamaza warned Artur that a criminal case could be initiated against him as a regime persistent disturber and that the place of imprisonment could be altered. Ludzmila Graznova comments on the situation to the press-center of Charter’97.

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Youth activist Aliaksandar Reznikau attends the High Theater School of Krakow on the Kalinouski program. He had been a student of Minsk Theater University and an actor of the Belarusian Drama Theater before the events that took place last March on Kalinouski Square where he was one of the camp’s defenders. On those days, after playing Harold in Shakespeare’s “King Lire”, Aliaksandar came to the Square and stayed there all nights long.

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The chief ideologist of Valozhyn district has ordered to hold up the camp set up by the evangelists, and to present a list of everyone who resides there. Lawyers consider the order unreasonable and illegal. The camp was organized by the community of Religious Association of Christians of the Whole Gospel “Jesus Christ Church” of Minsk.

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The plain- air “Following the Napoleon-Horde’s route” which was held at the Hrodna exhibition hall was supposed to be concluded by the today’s exhibition. But it so happened that the organizers were obliged to look for another place. It was a planned event approved by the Hrodna city executive council half a year ago. But ideological problems have obviously sprung up.

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The head of Mahilyou special commandant’s office, lieutenant colonel Alyaksandr Lamaza reminded Artur Finkevich that he is a malicious violator of discipline, and a criminal action can be brought up against him, and a place of detention can be changed.

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One of the leaders of the democratic forces of Belarus Alyaksandr Milinkevich gave his interview to the” Le Mond” newspaper. It is to be mentioned that his first foreign visit to France was in December 2006 when he was the single Belarusian presidential candidate. Mr.Milinkevich met with Nicolas Sarkozy, the then Minister for Internal Affairs of France who is currently the President of France.

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“The American people believe that the flame for freedom burns in every human heart, and that light cannot be extinguished by governments, terrorists, or tyrants,” a Proclamation by the President of the United States of America George Bush on Captive Nations Week, 2007 reads. The president noted that: “Freedom is reaching around the world, and America is working side-by-side with new democracies in Liberia, Mauritania, Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan,” however nations such as Belarus, Burma, Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Sudan, and Zimbabwe “still oppress their citizens”.

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