Lukashenka also mentioned the “over bureaucratic “European machine”. The bureaucracy is hard and inert, this machine is moving in the direction and, as the folklore goes, if the cock doesn’t peck them they won’t turn to another direction”. However, according to Lukashenka, in terms of the energy security and energy resources deliveries through Belarus to the European countries, the importance of our country to Europe in the power engineering sphere is obvious. ”I am absolutely sure of that”, Alyaksandr Lukashenka said.

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“The KGB (State Security Committee) of Belarus has neutralized an espionage network of Polish agents,” Interfax was informed by a KGB source Friday. A criminal action has been brought up against five citizens who had carried out intelligence activities in the interest of Polish intelligence service at the territory of Belarus, the interlocutor of the agency told. There are five suspects, one of them is a citizen of Russia.

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Public organizations which will be caught on being financed from the abroad are to be immediately closed , Alyaksandr Lukashenka declared in his interview with the journalists in Zhlobin.

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Today is the first anniversary of the verdict handed down to Chairman of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Gramada) Alyaksandr Kazulin? The appeal of the BSDP (Gramada) Presidium runs that the trial was unprecedented: for the first time in the country the former candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus was sentenced.

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Provocation of the State Drug Control Committee of Russia resulted in groundless criminal persecution of two Belarusian inhabitants. The activities of the Russian drug-fighters were reported by the human rights activists and lawyers of the victimized Belarusians at the press- conference on 12 July, the Sobkor®ru correspondent tells.

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Believers of the protestant unity “Church of Jesus Christ” protected their summer camp in the Valozhin area where around a hundred of children are having a rest. The local authorities demanded closing-down of the camp if all the required formalities were not completed. They asked for enlisting all those who were going to have a rest in the camp, for getting the permission of the regional administration and the Committee for Religion Affairs for setting up the summer camp.

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On July 12 the head of Homel regional branch of the Belarusian Radio and Electronics Workers’ Union (REWU) Viktar Kazlou applied to city executive committee to hold a picket against repeal of benefits.

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The first official visit of defense minister of Turkmenistan to Belarus is to take place July 21-25. The BelaPAN has been informed about that by the press-service of the Belarusian military ministry. The aim of the visit is to hold negotiations on issues of military cooperation between the two countries.

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Belarus and Russia signed the contract on creation of the Belarusian space complex. It is to be much more flexible than the last year broken BelKA (Belarusian space apparatus) and almost two times lighter. For signing the contract the Belarusian party was represented by first deputy chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Piotr Vityaz, and the Russian party-by director of the All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute of electrical mechanics Leonid Makridenko.

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