Members of the Republican Public Association”Perspektiva” met with the deputy ministers for taxes and duties of Belarus Alyaksandr and Vasil Kamenka. The officials promised to settle the conflict which occurred today at the Zhdanovichy market and announced the monitoring moratorium for the time of the conflict settlement.

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At the Vitebsk newspaper stalls”Gliobus” the envelops with Stalin’s image made in the Great Patriotic War style are on sale.

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Around 100 trading outlets were closed today at the “Fashion World” trade center at the Zhdanovichi market. That was reported to the Charter’97 press office by one of the leaders of the Minsk entrepreneurs Alyaksandr Makaev. He said that fur traders refused to start working. According to them, under constantly changing legislation their goods can be any time confiscated by the monitoring bodies.

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Russia turned down the Belarusian proposal of extra 30 thousand ton delivery of sugar in addition to the amount stipulated by the intergovernmental agreement. Furthermore, it has become known today that the negotiations held by Belarus on exporting sugar beet to Ukraine are doomed to failure. “Today our sugar refineries which are targeted at producing sugar to be sold in Russia are facing serious economic problems”, the situation with the Belarusian sugar production is commented by the economist Leanid Zlotnikau in his interview to the Charter’97 press office.

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Minister for economy of Belarus Mikalai Zaichanka is sure that the country can’t do without the atomic power engineering.” Due to the present day state of relationship with Russia and gas prices the power engineering has become very costly”, declared the minister for economy in Minsk specifying that the majority of heat and electric power plants are gas powered. “We are loosing competitiveness on the tariffs and under such conditions we can’t do without the APP”, he said.

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Information ministry of Belarus is actively drafting the act regulating the internet mass media activities. In his exclusive interview to the information agency ”Interfax-Zapad” the deputy minister of information Alyaksandr Slabadchuk declared that the problems typical of internet editions are similar to those of many published mass media ( biased publications , hidden advertising, copyright violation., etc.).Thus the rights and legitimate interests of legal entities and individuals are being violated. For this reason the internet mass media development may not go beyond the legal norms and regulations. So this sphere of activities must be put in order at the legislative level”.

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Trial of the youth activist Pavel Sevyarinets is due 21 August. That was reported by the oppositional policymaker’s lawyer Pavel Alesik .According to the lawyer Pavel Sevyarinets is charged with repeated violation of the mass action procedure stipulated by Article 23.34 Part 3 of the Administrative Code.

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