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UCP representative in Central Election Commission got 7 days in prison
Mikhal Pashkevich, one of the leaders of the “Young Democrats”, youth organisation of the United Civil Party is sentenced to 7 days of arrest by the Tsentralny district court of Minsk. The UCP activist was detained on 28 June near the Minsk railway station, when he was going to meet... Read more -
Bomb blast in Minsk. About 50 people injured
An explosion occurred in Minsk during the official Independence Day celebration. Allegedly a self-made explosive device with screws and bolts exploded. About 50 people were hospitalized after the incident near the stela in Victor’s Avenue according to reports from the ambulance service to the... Read more -
Leaflets with information about the European Union seized in Zhodzina
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Mahilyou authorities are against monument to Holocaust
For the fourth time the Jewish community of Mahilyou has addressed the city authorities with a request to construct a monument in the place of mass extermination of Holocaust victims. As the representatives of the community said, a corresponding letter had been sent to the toponymic commission of... Read more -
Arrested Young Front activist stands trial again
Artsyom Lastavetski, Young Front activist from Baranavichy, who is serving 7-day arrest for handing out portraits of political prisoner Andrei Kim, was guarded to another trial from a detention center. The court fined the Young Front activist of 40 basic unites, the young man also must compensate... Read more -
Police seized signatures in support of Belarus’ joining EU
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Students studying abroad are not allowed to leave Belarus
Belarusian activists who had been expelled from Belarusian universities on political reasons and who are studying in foreign universities now, are stopped on the border and told that they are prohibited to leave Belarus. Names of the students are put on the so-called “black lists”. In... Read more -
Svyatlana Zavadskaya: “Authorities fear issue of forced disappearances”
The Maskouski district court of Minsk dismissed a complaint of Svyatlana Zavadskaya against unjust acts of Mikhail Titsyankou, deputy head of the Minsk city executive committee, who banned holding a picket on 7 May, at the anniversary of disappearance of former minister of internal affaires of... Read more -
Academy of Sciences says about “insufficient knowledge” of history of national flag
The Ministry of Culture denied a suggestion on granting the national white-red-white flag the status of a historical and cultural object due to “insufficient arguments and documental validity”. As BelaPAN has learnt from Anton Astapovich, head of the Belarusian Voluntary Association of... Read more -
Priest fined for consecrating a cross
Today law-enforcing agencies detained an Orthodox priest Leanid Akalovich. They acted under a decision of the police department of Staryja Darohi about a compulsory process. The priest was taken to the court of Staryja Darohi. Judge Syarhei Epikhau sentenced him to a fine of 30 basic units (more... Read more