The Minsk city executive committee turned down the ”For Freedom” movement activists’ request for conducting the picket in support of the political prisoners which was to be held the coming days.

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Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s statement on the necessity of the Internet monitoring was unambiguously estimated as the authorities’ attempt to “fasten” the remaining “screws” and to deprive Belarusians of a single opportunity to learn the truth about the things happening in the country. That is really so. But there is an essential aspect- the media is to be cleaned off for the official propaganda which has never being able to compete with the free mass media without resorting to the master’s punishing hand.

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed concern about Alyaksandr Lukashenka`s intention to put an end to what he called "anarchy" in the Internet. "It`s time to end the anarchy in the Internet," the Belarusian leader said while visiting the editorial office of the largest government-controlled newspaper Sovetskaya Belorussiya on August 2.

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Former presidential candidate Alyaksandr Milinkevich has urged Terry Davis, secretary general of the Council of Europe, to help save historic buildings in Hrodna.

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Members of the Iranian legislature`s working group for cooperation with Belarusian National Assembly discussed issues concerning economic cooperation at a meeting with Belarusian lawmakers at a meeting in Minsk on August 6.

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Leanid Sudalenka, a legal expert with the Union of Electronic Industry Workers, has demanded that a state-run newspaper in the Homyel region should retract what he calls a libelous story about his son.

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It was the first time that Belarus sold the enterprise to a foreign investor without sticking to the majority stock .Experts treat this case as the scenario for the forthcoming Belarusian privatization.

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