In the morning on 7 September KGB workers visited the public and political activist Maksim Hubarevich at work. They handed to him a summons to come to the KGB office for giving explanations. There wasn’t specified which explanations he was to give and why, but they did not explain anything to him.
The European Commission has expressed «dismay» over the recent arrests of opposition youths in Belarus, warning that it could further damage the country`s relations with the European Union.
Former presidential candidate Alyaksandr Milinkevich on September 6 attended an international economic forum in the southern Polish city of Krynica on Thursday.
About 30 companies under the authority of the economy ministry will be converted into stock corporations by the end of the year, Deputy Economy Minister Aleh Melnikaw said at the Sixth International Congress of CIS Appraisers held in Minsk on September 6.
Siarhei Antusevich, the chair of the primary unit of the Belarusian independent trade union at the open company Hrodna Azot (Hrodna Nitrogen) has been again thoroughly searched by the Belarusian customs officers on the Polish border.
At about 9 p.m. on 6 September in Babruisk the police detained four youth activists including Mikita Bytsenka and Siarhei Latsinski. That day they helped a local human rights activist Ihar Khodzka to repair his house.
One of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition Andrey Klimau was sentenced at factually closed trial at the Minsk Central District Court to two years in prison .That was reported to the Charter’97 press-centre by the journalist Aleg Gruzdilovich who managed to get to know about the sentence to the policymaker. Information about the sentence was confirmed at the Minsk prosecutor’s office and at the Minsk Central District Court .The trial of the politician started 30 July and finished in two days.1 August the sentence was handed down by Judge Elena Ilina.
”Hopes of the Belarusian authorities for overcoming the officially formulated cooperation conditions by means of various tricks failed. It so happened that the democratic issues are not a hollow subject for the European leaders. And without democratic reforms the authorities will not manage to improve cooperation with the European Union. It is high time for them to understand that without the dialogue with the opposition the dialogue with the European structures is unfeasible. As today it is the Belarusian opposition and not the officials that is the real envoy of Belarus to Europe”, deputy chairman of the BNF Party , chairman of the European March organizing committee Viktar Ivashkevich declared commenting to the Charter ’97 press center on the decision of the European Union .to turn down the suggestions of the official Minsk on economic cooperation as the cooperation is conditioned by the democratic changes in Belarus.
Belarus made its first step forward towards oil mining outside the country .The opportunity was provided by Lukashenka’s co-thinker and the Non-Alliance Movement mate President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mahmud Ahmadinejad. On Wednesday Belarus and Iran signed the contract on the development of Jofeir oil field.
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