The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE February, 18, 2003 http://charter97.org/eng/news/ --------------------------------------------------------- GAZPROM THREATENS BELARUS WITH INTERNATIONAL ROW 16:46 18/02/2004, photo ByMedia.net Gazprom is going to response harshly to the possible transit gas diverting by Belarus. "If Belarus starts to divert transit gas supplied to Poland and Germany, these actions would be turned into a great scandal of the international level with unpredictable consequences for Belarus", warned Gazprom press secretary Sergei Kupriyanov, utro.ru informs. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/18/skandal --------------------------------------------------------- COURT PARTIALLY SATISFIED SUIT AGAINST "NARODNAYA VOLYA" 15:44 18/02/2004 Court of the Lenin Distruct of Minsk partially answered to the claim of "Alliance Media Ltd." and editor-in-chief of the "Obozrevatel" Syarhei Atroschanka against editorial office of the newspaper "Narodnaya Volya". The court obliged the newspaper to print the disclaimer of one of the articles, published before. Besides, according to the court decision, the editorial office is to defray sue charges and costs of attorney of Alliance Media Ltd. At the same time, the court refuse charge the "Narodnaya Volya" 50 millions rubles for moral damage of the plaintiff, Radio Racyja informs. It is the result of one of the two suits against "Narodnaya Volya" by S. Atroschanka. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/18/isk --------------------------------------------------------- TWO ZUBRS DETAINED IN MINSK 11:32 18/02/2004 Two activists of the Zubr movement were daeteined by police in Minsk on February 17. Lubow Kuchynskaya and Alyaksei Kontar pasted leaflets in the Skaryna Avenue. In the crossroads with the Kazlow Street a few police officers in civilian clothes approached them. The young people were taken to the police department of the Patryzansky district of Minsk, where they spent an hour. After that activists were released without drawing up a report. Another groups of activists were gluing leaflets in Minsk at the same time. The leaflets could be seen in the Jakub Kolas street, Akadziemichaskaya, Syrhanaw, Kuzma Chorny streets, in the vicinity of metro stations "Park Chaluskintsaw" and "Maskowskaya", press service of the Zubr movement informs. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/18/zubr --------------------------------------------------------- NEW FRONT LINES OF GAS WAR 11:24 18/02/2004, Ihar Svabodzin, photo by ByMedia.net Russia has cut off natural gas supplies to Belarus on Wednesday at 10.00 a.m. Moscow time. "It was made because of absence of contracts between economic entities", TransNafta's General Director Vladimir Kondrachuk told ITAR-TASS. And on yesterday evening representatives of Belarus started urgent negotiations with TransNafta on continuation of gas supplies. The Belarusian side delayed answer to the uttermost. There was no information about talks a few hours before the assumed moment pf turning off gas taps. The Russians declared their readiness to continue talks throughout the whole day. Beside information about beginning of the talks, it was made known that Belarusian authorities decided to take a credit from Russia, in order to make a long-term contract for gas supplies with Russian concern Gazprom. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/18/new --------------------------------------------------------- RUSSIA TO SUPPLY S-300 MISSILE SYSTEMS TO BELARUS 16:34 18/02/2004, www.russiajournal.com Russia will supply the modernized S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Belarus soon, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov said after a meeting of the two countries' defense ministry boards on Wednesday. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/18/s300 --------------------------------------------------------- HANNA ARTSIUSHKEVICH: AUTHORITIES KNEW ABOUT RYBAKOW'S SINS LONG AGO 16:05 18/02/2004 Former head of the National TV and Radio Company Yahor Rybakow detained. He is accused of abuse of office, violations in business activities and so on. Now the former head of the National TV and Radio Company is in pre-trial detention cell in Minsk. Some journalists consider that the authorities knew about Rybakow's crimes long ago. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/18/greh --------------------------------------------------------- TRANSNAFTA SAYS STOPPED GAS SUPPLIES TO BELARUS WED MORNING 14:14 18/02/2004 Russian independent trader Transnafta stopped natural gas supplies to Belarus on Wednesday at 10 a.m. Moscow time as Belarus' state gas pipeline monopoly Beltransgaz failed to sign a new contract with Transnafta, Transnaftas General Director Vladimir Kondrachuk told ITAR-TASS Wednesday. http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/18/gazprom --------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - BELARUS UPDATE 14:09 18/02/2004 Edited by Victor Cole Vol. 7, No. 7 February 2004 http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2004/02/18/update --------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE February, 18, 2003 http://charter97.org/eng/news/ -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=media.charter97&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com