The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE January, 14, 2003 www.charter97.org --------------------------------------------------------- Translation and interpreting services - http://charter97.org/index.phtml?sid=4&did=Translate&eid=service&lang=3 --------------------------------------------------------- THREE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF ZUBR 11:37 14/01/2004, ZUBR Press Service Today is the third anniversary of the resistance movement Zubr the largest youth organization in Belarus. Activists of the movement have celebrated this date with new actions. Before the January 14 several forbidden national flags were hung in different districts of Minsk. White-red-white flag unfurled over the streets and buildings in Serabranka (Rakassowsi avenue) and Malinawka (Slabadzkaya street), and in the center of the city, by the central railway station. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/14/zubr --------------------------------------------------------- LEADER OF JEWISH ORGANIZATION ARRESTED IN MINSK 14:33 14/01/2004 Jakov Gutman, the chairman of the World Association of Belarusan Jewry (WABJ), was detained by police officers for a picket in Minsk in front of the building of the Presidential Administration on January 14. Jakov Gutman tried to unfold a poster with the appeal to the president "to stop demolition of Jewish sacred places, Jewish cemeteries, and the memorial to the victims of Holocaust". According to Interfax agency, Gutman was taken to the city police department for identification and clarification of motives of his actions. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/14/gutman --------------------------------------------------------- US OFFICIAL SEES LOOMING CRISIS FOR BELARUS ECONOMY 13:21 14/01/2004, gazeta.ru A senior U.S. official said on Tuesday Belarus needed to loosen state control of the economy to avert a possible crisis in the impoverished former Soviet state. President Alexander Lukashenko, isolated by the West for resisting reforms, is hostile to foreign investment and fears losing some power if he changes the Soviet-style economy, said the State Department official, who asked not to be named. But low productivity, a need to print money to pay state salaries and signs its key importer, Russia, is demanding higher quality goods, may force Belarus to become more market-oriented, he told reporters. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/14/crisis --------------------------------------------------------- INDEPENDENT MASS MEDIA FEAR BE LEFT WITHOUT TV SCHEDULE 12:08 14/01/2004 Since the beginning of the new year the state TV and Radio company handed over the exclusive rights for distribution of TV programs to the Belarusian news agency BELTA. The result could be seen at once, as the readers of the first issue of the independent newspaper "Belorusskaya Gazeta" received it without usual TV program in it. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/14/smi --------------------------------------------------------- JUDGES ARE FORBIDDEN TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION ON LEGAL PROCESSES 11:40 14/01/2004 Judge of the Economic Court of Hrodna region Syarhei Kulakowski forbade the reporter of the newspaper "Dyen" to give details of the legal process on the suit of Volha Kunyawskaya against Hrodna regional executive committee. This case was considered in the Economic court of Hrodna region and attracted attention of all independent mass media in Hrodna, pahonia.promedia.by informs. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/01/14/info --------------------------------------------------------- (!) Ads on the site: adv@charter97.org --------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE December, 14, 2003 www.charter97.org -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=media.charter97&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com