Central Elections Commission confirms that ballots are burned

CEC commented upon the Ivatsevichy incident, where the special services representatives were seen burning last election's ballots.

Radio Racyja has informed about burning of packages with ballots at the boiler-station of Ivatsevichy "Water-Channel". They were delivered by a mini-bus and burned by the special forces representatives for two hours.

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More than 1 200 people queue in a currency exchange office (photo fact)

Euroradio clarified how the banks reacted to the National Bank's recommendation not to sell currency and how many people queued for dollars.

On August 24 the National Bank advised the banks to stop selling currency in the exchange offices, located in big shopping centers. Thus, "Belarusbank" is already considering the National Bank's recommendation but hasn't stopped selling currency yet.

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Festive actions of solidarity with Belarus worldwide (PHOTO, VIDEO, UPDATED)

Youth organizations from all over the world are organizing street actions in support of Belarus today, on the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of Sovereignty

The first action took place in Miami, USA, on Sunday. Youth democratic activists from “Young Cuba” sent pictures and videos of the action to Euroradio.

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Police: We'll base our further relations with Khamichenka on trust

Euroradio has found out that Uladzimir Khamichenka is staying at his friend's and has not bought a cell-phone yet.

Uladzimir "Headphone" Khamichenka, one of the convicts after the December 19 events, pardoned by Alyaksandr Lukashenka, seems not to have disappeared anywhere. According to the information provided by the law-enforcement authorities, he arrived to Slutsk on August 15, and registered in the police the next day.

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Russian citizen who died on "Bulgaria" buried in Belarus by mistake

A husband of the Belarusian who also died in the accident made this fatal mistake.

He mistakenly recognized his wife - a 61-year-old Larysa Petukhova - in Perm inhabitant Halina Batanava during the identification procedure.

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Cowpat throwing contest to take place in Belarus for the first time

It will happen at the renewed festival "Free Air".

The event's organizers Uladzimir Shablinski, Yauhen Kalmykou and Alyaksandr Bahdanau got together just before the festival in order to tell why it is worth it to attend "Free Air".

At first, states Yauhen Kalmykou, this year the festival will be held in a new format for the first time ever - representatives of the new ethno from 5 countries at a time will gather at one stage.

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Poland's General public prosecutor fires guilty for "Byalyatski's incident"

These are head of International Cooperation Department of the General prosecutor's office Krzysztof Karsznicki and his deputy Anna Wiśniewska.

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"Headphone" Khamichenka disappears?

He failed to appear at his sister's, or aunt's, or at the place of his registration after pardon.

“When a person is released from places of imprisonment, they ask him where he is going to live and work. He chooses the place of residence by himself. The procedure is the same in all countries. He did not plan to stay at his place of residence. He joined the criminal community again”. This is how the head of civil security police service of the Slutsk city department of internal affairs Valery Kameneu says about "Headphone" Uladzimir Khamichenka, released by the presidential pardon on August 11.

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Real American truck assembled at MAZ plant (photo fact)

Head of Minsk automobile plant Alyaksandr Barouski told about the plans to organize production of “nosy” trucks at a press-conference in March.

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