The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE February, 12, 2003 http://charter97.org/eng/news/ --------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE February, 12, 2003 http://charter97.org/eng/news/ --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE February, 11, 2003 http://charter97.org/eng/news/ --------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE February, 11, 2003 http://charter97.org/eng/news/ -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=media.charter97&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com