A prosecutor of the town of Pinsk, justice advisor Svyatlana Masla has sent a statement to Pinsk city department of internal affairs on bringing to material responsibility a police ensign Alyaksanrd Barycheuski.

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The delegation of the Finance Ministry of the Chinese People’s Republic is to visit Belarus on an official visit July 13-16, Interfax was told by Belarusian finance ministry representative.

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As director of the brewery Andrei Losyau told the” Narodnaya Volya”(People’s Freedom) newspaper, the official reason for firing the staff was termination of their employment contracts. That was the foreseen action because over the year ago the decision was taken by the Belarusian government on re-profiling of the Hrodna brewery due to the warning out of its equipment. The staff redundancy was pursued step by step.

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Today night unknown daubed black the car of consul Marcin Krasinski, a worker of the General Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Hrodna. Number plates and wind-screen were damaged by words “butcher” and indecent pictures.

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Homel tax inspection has decided to check the public association “Legal initiative”. July 13 Leanid Sudalenka, the chairman of the Homel branch of the organization is to give a number of documents for an examination. The list of the required documents includes about 20 items.

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When buying non-governmental press “SNplus” at the “Tamara” shop of the trade republican unitary enterprise “Gomelobssoyuzdruk” (Gomel regional publishing house) Gomel journalist Maria Shimanouskaya learnt from talk of the shop staff about the given order to hide the non-governmental press from the buyers.

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Venezuela plans to invest 500 million dollars in creation of Belarusian-Venezuelan Investment Fund. This sum has been announced in Caracas, during negotiations of Belarusian governmental delegation headed by the State secretary of the Security Council Viktar Sheiman with the Venezuelan side. The talks have been carried out in the framework of the visit of the Belarusian delegation to Venezuela.

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On July 16 at 6 p.m. an action of solidarity with political prisoner Andrei Klimau will take place in Minsk at Kastrychnitskaya Square. It has been stated by the United Civil Party today. Participants of the rally will gather on the square with portraits of Andrei Klimau, Alyaksandr Kazulin, Zmitser Dashkevich, Artur Finkevich and other prisoners of conscience.

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Workers of the Minsk Ball-Bearing Works sent a group letter to the President’s Administration and the State Control Committee asking to check the works and expressing their readiness to street actions for defending their rights.

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A plain-air “Christ has landed in Harodnya” (from the title of the book “Christ has landed in Harodnya” by Belarusian classic Uladzimir Karatkevich) was to take place July 13-15 in Hrodna. The organizer of the plain-air Henik Lojka told that according to the preliminary approval of the city authorities, a sand statue of Christ was to appear at the bank of Neman near Drama theatre.

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The Belarusian authorities have stopped criminal proceedings against 4 members of the Union of Poles in Belarus. Andrzej Poczobutt, Jozef Porzecki, Wieslaw Kiewlak and Andrzej Pisalnik can now address Hrodna police and get a stamp in passports which allow leaving Belarus for all countries of the world.

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It is Euro 100 that is demanded for Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s portrait by amateur artist Aleg who has exhibited his works in the City of Masters. The Belarusian President’s portrait is a piece of the 7 pictures’ set under a complicated common title “Collapse of the Union. Betrayal of socialist ideals. Is it the 50th Victory anniversary or a complete failure?” The portrait presents Lukashenka’s official image in a suit and tie.

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The might-be closing endangers another democratic public organization which has still remained registered, that is the Minsk city public union ”Tsentr Supolnast”. The trial is to be held on 13 July.

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Wednesday evening the United States House of Representatives approved the resolution expressing protest against possible creation of a gas cartel on the model of the OPEC. As ITAR-TASS was informed by representatives of the House, the document which does not have a binding force for the US Administration, was adopted without counting voices. Among countries exporting gas Algeria, Bolivia, Venezuela, Iran, Qatar and Russia are enumerated. Authors of the resolution also claim that Russia many times demonstrated readiness to use its role of oil and gas supplier for exerting political pressure on other countries like Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus.

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