"I did not plan a conscious suicide, and an indefinite hunger strike would surely end in this without solidarity actions in support of its demands".
"Today, on the jubilee 20th day of the hunger strike, I took the decision to stop it, although my demands were not fulfilled even partly, I got no "positive signals" from the authorities, and the civil and political situation got close to nothing for this time", - Dzmitry Halko (nicknamed "Budzimir" in the internet) wrote this in his blog this morning.
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Catholics in Hrodna enact Christ's Way of Cross (photo)
Procession with religious songs and prayers crossed from Holy Cross Catholic Church to Farny Cathedral, where the holy mass took place.
Members of Catholic parishes from all the city conducted a procession which symbolized Jesus Christ's Way of Cross to Calvary on April 16, just before the Yew Sunday. Many young people took part in the event.
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Members of Catholic parishes from all the city conducted a procession which symbolized Jesus Christ's Way of Cross to Calvary on April 16, just before the Yew Sunday. Many young people took part in the event.
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Friday, April 8, 2011
Liabedzka: I do not close doors to Ramanchuk
Anatol Liabedzka has told what he asked Ramanchuk about during their meeting and why some people turned out to be "weak and mean" after the election.
Release of the United Civil Party's leader Anatol Liabedzka has revived "Jaraslau Ramanchuk's case". Jaraslau Ramanchul made a scandalous statement on December 20, in which he accused some presidential candidates and a journalist Iryna Khalip of December 19 events. After that, the ex-candidate claimed that Anatol Libedzka made up the story that the governement allegedly promised Ramanchuk a job before the election...
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Release of the United Civil Party's leader Anatol Liabedzka has revived "Jaraslau Ramanchuk's case". Jaraslau Ramanchul made a scandalous statement on December 20, in which he accused some presidential candidates and a journalist Iryna Khalip of December 19 events. After that, the ex-candidate claimed that Anatol Libedzka made up the story that the governement allegedly promised Ramanchuk a job before the election...
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Bantsar: Decision on "Polish Charter" brings no changes to Union of Poles
Belarusian Poles will not feel any consequences of the Constitutional Court's decision, activist of the non-official Union of Poles Ihar Bantsar thinks.
Let us remind you, the Constitutional Court decided against the "Polish Charter" on April 7. Like, some norms of the Polish law "On Polish Charter" do not meet international legal norms.
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Let us remind you, the Constitutional Court decided against the "Polish Charter" on April 7. Like, some norms of the Polish law "On Polish Charter" do not meet international legal norms.
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Foreign Office: Western countries try to exercise pressure on Belarus with
The Belarusian Foreign Office has criticized the Western states and the OSCE administration today.
Commenting on the OSCE’s initiative to create a mission to investigate Dec.19 events in Belarus, press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Andrei Savinyh mentioned “double standards of interpreting OSCE documents”, “the discriminating essence of the initiative” and “bloc thinking”.
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Commenting on the OSCE’s initiative to create a mission to investigate Dec.19 events in Belarus, press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Andrei Savinyh mentioned “double standards of interpreting OSCE documents”, “the discriminating essence of the initiative” and “bloc thinking”.
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Lithuanian Seimas to conduct a round-table discussion on Astravets NPP
Today's round-table will be dedicated to analysis of the situation with the NPP, by MPs and experts, politicians and activists from Lithuania and Belarus.
Lithuania did not confirm its consent to construction of the Astravets nuclear power plant in close proximity to its border. However, the construction works on the ground have already been started and this makes Lithuania deeply concerned.
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Lithuania did not confirm its consent to construction of the Astravets nuclear power plant in close proximity to its border. However, the construction works on the ground have already been started and this makes Lithuania deeply concerned.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Online shops set dollar exchange rate at 3800
The number of clients has decreased by two times in two weeks and Internet shop owners hardly manage to change prices on their websites in time.
Euroradio has decided to find out how the currency deficit has affected Belarusian online shops. At one of the internet-shop we contacted the dollar costs 3800 rubles. The sales have decreased, notes the shop, but there are still clients.
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Euroradio has decided to find out how the currency deficit has affected Belarusian online shops. At one of the internet-shop we contacted the dollar costs 3800 rubles. The sales have decreased, notes the shop, but there are still clients.
Read more: http://ping.fm/atMlJ
Libya: hundreds of Belarusian military men on Gaddafi's side
Many of them served in Afganistan and trained in the elite military units of Belarus.
Hundreds of Belarusian military specialists are helping Gaddafi's army to counterstand the insurgents and NATO's bombings. The newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" informs this with a reference to different sources in our country's Ministry of Defense, as well as to a conversation with a Belarusian officer. According to the latter, Belarusians do not take part in battle operations directly, but they are on battle positions all the time. Mikhail (this is how he introduced himself) has spent more than a year in Lybia, he has an individual contract with Lybian authorities, which is "not connected with my country's Ministry of Defense in any way", and gets 3 thousand dollars a week. Belarusian military men not only perform the function of Lybian commanders' advisors, but also organize reconnaissance and military technical equipment exploitation.
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Hundreds of Belarusian military specialists are helping Gaddafi's army to counterstand the insurgents and NATO's bombings. The newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" informs this with a reference to different sources in our country's Ministry of Defense, as well as to a conversation with a Belarusian officer. According to the latter, Belarusians do not take part in battle operations directly, but they are on battle positions all the time. Mikhail (this is how he introduced himself) has spent more than a year in Lybia, he has an individual contract with Lybian authorities, which is "not connected with my country's Ministry of Defense in any way", and gets 3 thousand dollars a week. Belarusian military men not only perform the function of Lybian commanders' advisors, but also organize reconnaissance and military technical equipment exploitation.
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Consequences of failure at TPP-3 not liquidated yet
Electric power supply failed in four districts of the city.
The incident occurred beacuse the power feeder, which provided electricity to several city districts at a time, turned off. The electricity problems covered partly the Central, Lenin, Zavodzki and Partyzanski districts.
The reason for failure at the TPP-3 is being clarified, an emergency brigade is working at the site. An assistant of the head of Minsk city administration of emergency situations Vital Dembouski has said this to Euroradio.
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The incident occurred beacuse the power feeder, which provided electricity to several city districts at a time, turned off. The electricity problems covered partly the Central, Lenin, Zavodzki and Partyzanski districts.
The reason for failure at the TPP-3 is being clarified, an emergency brigade is working at the site. An assistant of the head of Minsk city administration of emergency situations Vital Dembouski has said this to Euroradio.
Read more: http://ping.fm/9vXhY
Belarusians keep twice more money at home than National Bank has in gold
Belarusians have 11 billion U.S. dollars on hand. There are only 5 billion on bank accounts.
The head of the National Bank Piotr Prakapovich announced this sum a few days ago. Thus, the population has more money than the state. The experts think that if this money was directed to the bank system in due time, today's crisis could have been avoided.
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The head of the National Bank Piotr Prakapovich announced this sum a few days ago. Thus, the population has more money than the state. The experts think that if this money was directed to the bank system in due time, today's crisis could have been avoided.
Read more: http://ping.fm/HR44P
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