Police find no drugs on Neklyaev but take newspapers for reading
The local and municipal elections are taking place in Belarus on April 25. 21300 deputies will be elected to serve on 1495 local councils -- regional, municipal, district and village councils. The biggest competition is for the Minsk City Council with 3.9 candidates for one seat. In average across the country, 1.2 candidates compete for one seat, reports the official news agency Belta.
Over 25000 people, including nearly 300 representatives of the opposition parties and movements remain in the race.
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Five years in prison for violating copyrights in internet
A new law on copyright will soon appear in Belarus. A draft legislation has been tabled at the House of Representatives. The European Radio for Belarus explores if a new law is to regulate copyright in the internet.
Alexei Pichuryn, the head of the copyright department at the National Intellectual Property Center, says there is no clear clause on the internet in the current draft. But this does not mean the law will not regulate copyrights in the web.
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Alexei Pichuryn, the head of the copyright department at the National Intellectual Property Center, says there is no clear clause on the internet in the current draft. But this does not mean the law will not regulate copyrights in the web.
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Ousted Kyrgyz president Bakiyev says he does not accept his resignation
Kurmanbek Bakiyev today said in Minsk that he is not accepting his resignation from the post of the president of Kyrgyzstan.
He stressed that the recent revolution in Kyrgyzstan set his country back for decades.
Bakiyev noted that he feels responsible for the country's catastrophe and is ready to account for the turmoil under the law. "But this does not mean that I am ready to give up to the bandits and abandon my people", he said at the headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Minsk.
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He stressed that the recent revolution in Kyrgyzstan set his country back for decades.
Bakiyev noted that he feels responsible for the country's catastrophe and is ready to account for the turmoil under the law. "But this does not mean that I am ready to give up to the bandits and abandon my people", he said at the headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Minsk.
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Poland bids farewell to Lech Kaczynski (photo + video)
People were near the Presidential Palace the whole night. They kept bringing flowers and candles and the queue was several hundred meters long.
Candles are also lit in many other places in Warsaw – near churches, monuments, squares and crossroads.
Books of sympathy were placed in the Presidential Palace on the evening of April 11. People keep coming there to leave notes. Belarusians have also left their notes there.
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Construction of railway for Astravets NPP has started (photo report)
Several kilometers of the railway that will connect Ashmyany with Astravets District have already been built
The construction of a railway line from Ashmyany to Astravets or, namely, to the future NPP (it will be 25 km long) started several months ago. Only three gauges of the railway have been built in that direction. They are several kilometers long. The place of the future railway station is being cleaned up in the nearest forest. Carriages with construction materials will be sorted there and the railway bridge is being rebuilt now. The train Maladzechna-Gudagai ran only up to Ashmyany station because of the construction works.
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The number of the unemployed has exceeded the number of vacancies
At the same time, our country still lacks builders.
Here are about 40 thousand official unemployed in Belarus and there are only about 35 thousand vacancies offered by placement services. The deputy head of Minsk placement department Maryna Shahlovich has informed ERB about it. According to her, there are more than two vacancies per every unemployed person in Minsk.
Maryna Shahlovіch: “According to the currently available information, there are a bit more than 13 thousand vacancies in Minsk. There were 4600 jobless people on March 1, however, I think the number has increased a bit since then”.
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Here are about 40 thousand official unemployed in Belarus and there are only about 35 thousand vacancies offered by placement services. The deputy head of Minsk placement department Maryna Shahlovich has informed ERB about it. According to her, there are more than two vacancies per every unemployed person in Minsk.
Maryna Shahlovіch: “According to the currently available information, there are a bit more than 13 thousand vacancies in Minsk. There were 4600 jobless people on March 1, however, I think the number has increased a bit since then”.
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Belarus to begin training aerospace engineers
30 vacancies, including 10 for private students, have been opened at the radiophysic faculty at the Belarus State University.
Universities in Belarus plan to introduce new course in the new academic year. For instance, a new course of Aerospace and Radioelectronic Information Systems and Technologies has been opened at the radiophysics faculty at the Belarus State University. This profession is associated with hich-tech, including mobile networks, GPS systems and programming. The university has very high ambitions, but students at the faculty are quite sceptical about the new course, describing it as an attempt to jump over the head.
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Universities in Belarus plan to introduce new course in the new academic year. For instance, a new course of Aerospace and Radioelectronic Information Systems and Technologies has been opened at the radiophysics faculty at the Belarus State University. This profession is associated with hich-tech, including mobile networks, GPS systems and programming. The university has very high ambitions, but students at the faculty are quite sceptical about the new course, describing it as an attempt to jump over the head.
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Belarusian oil company doesn't know cost of Venezuelan oil
The price is yet to be calculated after the first shipment and processing.
The news about serious shipments of crude oil from South America to Belarus impressed and alarmed Belarusians. Why should we import oils from a far Venezuela if Russia has traditionally been the main supplier? And, why, as some experts reckon, would Venezuela give us oil almost free of charge? The European Radio for Belarus has tried to find out that.
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Litvina: Supreme Court has banned operation of independent journalists
The Supreme Court of Belarus has rejected a complaint from the Belarusian Association of Journalists against a warning from the Ministry of Justice. Now freelance journalists who are members of BAJ cannot be called the press.
The reason is the court has banned the journalistic association to write the word "press" on the association membership IDs. In the view of BAJ chairperson Zhana Litvina, freelance journalisst who are not employed as staff with editorial offices will not be able to work properly, because any official will not to a person who cannot present a press card. "The bottom-line is that the Supreme Court has confirmed a ban on the word "press". Talking more globally, this is a ban of the operation of independent journalists and independent media organizations. The reasoning of the court is that only a professional journalist can work in the professional journalism. It means that only the employed staff -- and it is even better a staff with the state-owned media, then it is fine!", she said.
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Natalia Radzina punched in face, Charter'97 computers confiscated
The police have searched the apartment of Charter'97 web site editor (PHOTO)
Security agents today searched the apartment of Natalia Radzina who edits the web site of the Charter'97 opposition group and confiscated 8 computers.
Natalia told ERB correspondent that the police agents were very aggressive as if they had planned to storm the premises and used force against the journalist.
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