Two weeks determined for approval of the PR-campaign for the Belarusian head of state have passed, but there is no news so far. Former Margaret Thatcher's PR adviser and Boris Berezovsky's friend promised to help Lukashenka to burnish image of
The court of Pukhavichy district ahs punished the dweller of Druzhny settlement Syarhei Abrazouski with a fine of 1 mln Belarusian rubles. He was charged with staging an unsanctioned rally against construction of a chemical plant. Mr. Abrazouski pleaded not
The EU and the US have announced that economic sanctions against Lukashenka's regime can be used after the latest crackdown on the oppositional rally and unseen repressions against journalists. And Russia has taken Belarus under its shelter.
General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Belarus readdressed appeal of the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) to the prosecutor's office of Minsk. It was said in the letter, the BAJ received 10 April from Prosecutor's General Ryhor Vasilevich in
Bush's administration is to focus on Russia, Belarus, Venezuela, China, North Korea, Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Somali and Thailand, according to the notification of strengthening freedom and democracy in the world. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said it at the
New criminal actions have been brought up against activists of the youth organization Young Front, Nasta Palazhanka and Alyaksei Yanusheuski for activities on behalf of an unregistered organization (Article 193.1 of the Criminal Code of Belarus).
An application for holding Charnobyl Way-2008 was sent to the Minsk city executive committee on 9 April. The organisers offer to meet near the National Academy of Sciences at 2.00pm.
Artur Finkevich, one of the Young Front leaders, told in the interview to the Charter'97 press center about 15 days of arrest, he had to serve in the detention center for participation in Freedom Day demonstration. He had to change
All people, detained for participation in the action on Freedom Day 25 March, were released from the detention center on Akrestin Street, where they had served 15 days of arrest.
The General Prosecutor's Office has stated that the grounds for the ban for leaving Belarus on the leader of the United Civil party Anatol Lyabedzka was the criminal case initiated against him.
After rallies on Freedom Day Vitsebsk activists are facing problems at work. The leader of Vitsebsk branch of the Conservative Christian party Belarusian Popular Front Yan Taupyha has been offered to quit the job when he returned after the arrest
Issues on extension bilateral Belarus-Syria relations were discussed during the visit of Belarusian delegation, heading by Viktar Haisyanok, deputy foreign minister of Belarus, to Syria, Interfax learnt from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus.
Closed discussion in the Belarusian "parliament" on air defence system building in Venezuela is in the line of war with the U.S. Someone is drawing anti-American line and trying to include a military component into there. It is apparently made
Foreign policy signals from Minsk embarrass. Though Alyaksandr Lukashenka was wheedling the European Union lately, the dictator continues to direct fire against his critics inside the country, Neue Zürcher Zeitung runs.
Officers of Hrodna public archives reject city dwellers to give data confirming person's belonging to Polish minority. The official explanation is that there are no necessary documents.
Health is the top priority of the social policy of the Belarusian state, Alyaksandr Laukshenka said today at the meeting with doctors who have transplanted a liver, which was the first time in Belarus. However the real policy of the
At the Belarusian-Russian border processing of temporary importation of passenger cars for citizens of Belarus ahs been resumed. Russian customs officers tax Belarusians for drawing up of documents. In this connection cars are to wait at the Belarusian-Russian border for
Alyaksandr Lukashenka has demanded the government to take measures necessary for receiving at least 7.8 mln tons of grain. Are these agriculture goals realistic?
