CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE
February, 12, 2003
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BELARUSIAN WEB SITE ACCUSES AUTHORITIES OF INSPIRING HACKERS' ATTACKS 
15:32 12/02/2004, BBC Monitoring Ukraine & Baltics

Text of report by Belarusian human rights group Charter-97 web site on 11 February

A massive distributed denial-of-service attack, which the www.charter97.org web
site [run by the Charter-97 human rights group] experienced recently, has resumed
again. Yesterday morning at about 0700 Minsk time [0500 gmt], the host company
providing services to the Charter-97 web site released a notification saying
that 980,000 requests addressed to the web site from various IP addresses across
the world were registered. The company had to stop provision of services to the
web site. Users could not access the web site for two days. 
The first wave of the attack began on 20 January after the web site had published
a report about Belarusian child porn traders. 
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/12/ataka

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INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SUSPENDED FOR THREE MONTHS
15:56 12/02/2004, BBC Monitoring Ukraine & Baltics

A three-month suspension has been imposed on the [privately owned] Vecherniy
Stolin newspaper in accordance with an order signed by Belarusian Information
Minister Uladzimir Rusakevich. 
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/12/newspaper

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TRANS NAFTA HALTS GAS SUPPLIES TO BELARUS THURSDAY
15:21 12/02/2004, Interfax, photo ByMedia.net

ZAO Trans Nafta halted supplies of gas to Belarus at 10:00 on Thursday, company
management said in a letter to Gazprom Deputy CEO Alexander Ryazanov and OAO
Beltransgaz General Director Pyotr Petukh.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/12/ogran

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BELARUSIAN OPPOSITION ACTIVIST GRANTED AMNESTY
15:29 12/02/2004, BBC Monitoring Ukraine & Baltics

Minsk's Frunzenski district penal commission ruled on Wednesday [11 February]
that [opposition activist] Aksana Novikava, who received a two-year suspended
prison sentence and two year's probation last April for distributing anti-Lukashenka
leaflets [Alyaksandr Lukashenka is the president of Belarus], is eligible for
the amnesty declared recently by the government. 
On 17 January, Ms Novikava was scheduled to stand trial for alleged failure to
comply with probation rules, which could result in her being sent to jail, but
a district judge postponed the hearing pending a decision by the penal commission.

http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/12/novikova

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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - BELARUS UPDATE
15:19 12/02/2004

Edited by Victor Cole
Vol. 7, No. 6
February 2004
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/12/update2

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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - BELARUS UPDATE
15:16 12/02/2004

Edited by Victor Cole
Vol. 7, No. 5
January 2004
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/12/update1

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CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE
February, 11, 2003
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DEMOCRATIC DREAMS
14:54 11/02/2004, By Tod Lindberg, "The Washington Times", photo by ByMedia.net

Undeniably, the project of building liberal democracy in Central and Eastern
Europe since
the end of the Cold War has been a resounding success. But the purpose of this
international
gathering in Latvias capital last week, which drew a high-powered congressional
delegation
led by Sen. John McCain, was not to celebrate success but to draw attention to
one
conspicuous failure: Europes last dictator, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/11/dem

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LUKASHENKA'S EX- CHARGE-D'AFFAIRES ARRESTED
14:25 11/02/2004, photo by ByMedia.net

Ex Charge-d'Affaires of the presidential administration Halina Zhuravkova was
relieved of
her post. As the law-enforcing agencies inform, searches at her place and in
her private
office were performed. Reportedly, on Monday Zhuravkova's son was detained as
well.
Press-services of the law-enforcing agencies still do not comment on these accidents.
The
decree dismissing Zhuravkova was signed "with the aim to guarantee an objective
and thorough
investigation of a number of criminal cases". 
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/11/arest

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BELARUS AND RUSSIA HAVE NOT REACHED AGREEMENT
14:41 11/02/2004

Prime ministers of Russia and Belarus have not reached any new agreements on
the questions
of cooperation in the gas sphere. Besides, Council of Ministers of the "union
state" of
Russia and Belarus has not approved the packet of agreements on introduction
of Russian
ruble as a single currency of the "union state". It was said by prime minister
of Russia
Mikhail Kasyanov to journalists after the session of the "union" Council of ministers.
"No
breakthrough was achieved during the negotiations", said Kasyanov.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/11/dogovor

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AGREEMENT ON TRANSMISSION OF "ROSSIYA" AND "RTR-PLANETA" TV CHANNELS IN BELARUS
TO BE
SIGNED SOON
14:40 11/02/2004

An agreement on broadcasting of TV cannels "Rossiya" and "RTR-Planeta" on the
territory of
Belarus is to be signed soon, as Belarusian deputy Minister of Information Syarhei
Bulatsky
said in his interview to the "Zvyazda" newspaper on Tuesday. "The position of
our ministry
is that we should sign appropriate agreements with all Russian TV channels on
the subject of
their broadcasting on the territory of Belarus", said Bulatsky.  Deputy minister
reminded
that agreements with Russian TV channels NTV and TV Center had been completed.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/11/time

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LUKASHENKA DEMANDS TO REINFORCE IDEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES
14:37 11/02/2004

In Belarus it is planned to reinforce ideological structures in local authorities,
at
state-run enterprises and educational institutions. According to the draft of
a presidential
decree, heads of state organizations, organizations where with a state share,
all
educational institutions are personally responsible for the state of ideological
work among
their employees.  
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/11/vert

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