CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE
January, 24, 2007
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POLAND'S RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI, WRITER AND NOBEL NOMINEE, DIES
19:03 24/01/2007
Polish foreign correspondent Ryszard Kapuscinski, who was among the writers favored to win the 2005 Nobel literature prize, died of a heart attack while recovering from surgery. He was 74.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/journalist
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INTERNET ACTIVITIES TO BE CONTROLLED BY LAW IN BELARUS
16:59 24/01/2007
While discussing a new draft law on mass media an issue of regulating activities in Internet has come to the fore. A separate legal system should be created for that, told a chairman of the Standing commission on human rights, national relations and mass media of the "chamber of representatives" Yury Kulakouki at an extended session of the "chamber of representatives" held in the editorial office of the Respublika newspaper.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/internet
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GEORGE W. BUSH: "WE WILL CONTINUE TO SPEAK OUT FOR THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM IN BELARUS"
10:48 24/01/2007
President George W. Bush used his State of the Union address to signal the United States' continued support for "the cause of freedom" in Cuba, Myanmar and Belarus, countries the administration has labeled "outposts of tyranny."
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/bush
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THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION OBLIGES TO BROADCAST "NTV-BELARUS" CHANNEL BY CABLE AND AIR LINKING SYSTEMS
19:06 24/01/2007
According to the Ministry of Information order the "NTV-Belarus" television channel broadcasting by cable and air linking systems becomes obligatory. The "Cosmos TV" firm, a multi-channel television operator in Minsk, received corresponding order of Minsk City Council on January 12.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/ntv
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LATVIAN EMBASSY DEMANDS TO PUNISH VANDALS
18:41 24/01/2007
On 23 January the Embassy of Latvia filed with the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Belarus a note concerning the defilement of the building of the Embassy in Minsk in the evening of 22 January, when unknown persons threw on the fasade of the building bottles with black paint and scattered leaflets with National-Bolshevik symbols on the adjacent territory. An analogical act of vandalism was performed in 2005.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/latvia
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MAHILIOU: KGB INTERROGATES YOUTH ACTIVIST IULIIA HARACHANKOVA
18:40 24/01/2007
In the morning of 22 January Iuliia Harachankova received a telephone call from the city's KGB office. The KGB workers invited her for a talk. The activist answered she would come to them only on a summons. In the evening the summons was handed to her mother, as the girl was absent.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/kgb
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BARANAVICHY: PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE LEGALIZES POLICE ACTIONS DURING SEARCH OF VIKTAR SYRYTSA'S APARTMENT
18:39 24/01/2007
Viktar Syrytsa has informed HRC Viasna about receiving an answer from Baranavichy city prosecutor's office and Baranavichy city police department concerning his complaint about illegal actions of the police during a search of his apartment.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/vik
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JUDGE RAN AWAY FROM TRIAL OVER HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
17:36 24/01/2007
On January 23, on the third day of a trial in the case of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee member Pavel Lyavinau, judge Natalya Karablina suspended the meeting for 20 minutes. However, she didn't return to the court room of Pershamajski court of Minsk, Radio Racyja informs.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/pobeg
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BELARUS WILL MAKE PAY FOR LAND UNDER RUSSIAN GAS PIPELINE
17:12 24/01/2007
Government of Belarus is going to make a proposition to Alyaksandr Lukashenka on introduction of rent payment for land for transiting entities subject to the international legislation. This information was conveyed to head of the state by Syargei Sydorsky on January 23 in the course of the meeting at the "Naftan" Joint-Stock Company, the press-service of the Belarusian ruler informed the Interfax. In the near future the corresponding documents will be submitted to Lukashenka for consideration.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/plata
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RUSSIA'S FSB: TERRORISTS MAY ENTER RUSSIA FROM BELARUS
17:08 24/01/2007
Russian-Belarusian "porous" border can be used by terrorists for penetrating the Russian Federation, Russian Border Service head Vladimir Pronichev said.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/fsb
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AFTER BEING EVICTED, VITEBSK-BASED NEWSPAPER IS THREATENED WITH WITHDRAWAL OF LICENCE
15:51 24/01/2007
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the interior ministry's attempts to force the closure of Vitebsky Kurier, an independent biweekly based in the northeastern city of Vitebsk. The ministry told the newspaper on 12 January, two days after it was evicted from its premises by the Vitebsk commercial court, that its permit will be withdrawn if it does not produce documents showing it has a new address within two weeks.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/after
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GENERAL KAZLOUSKY: "IN MY TIMES ALL VISITS WERE MADE OPENLY"
15:08 24/01/2007
In the ministry of defense no detailed information was given on minister of defense of Belarus Leanid Maltsau's visit to Iran and they categorically refused to comment on the Belarusian- Iranian memorandum on military cooperation, signed in Teheran. While commenting on the present situation to the press-center of the Charter'97 first minister of defense of independent Belarus General Pavel Kazlousky declared that when he was a minister of defense (1992-1994) all visits of the minister and his subordinates were
made openly in Belarus and information about the visits was operatively transferred to the mass media.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/general
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A 20-YEARS-OLD YOUNG MAN FELL OUT OF THE MILICIA STATION WINDOW
13:28 24/01/2007
A 20-years-old young man fell out of the window on the second floor of the Pinsk city milicia station and immediately died. As the BelaPAN was informed at the prosecutor's office, the young man was detained on suspicion of a mobile phone theft by the miliciamen at 1.25 a.m. on January 22.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/20
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LUKASHENKO RETURNS THE FAVOR
11:03 24/01/2007
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko declared the conflict with Russia over supplies and transit of energy sources unfinished yesterday. He stated that he expects $3.5 billion lost in concessions to Russia to be returned. In particular, he was referring to imposing rental payments for the 40,000 hectares of land on which oil, gas and petroleum product pipelines lie.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/01/24/favor
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CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE
January, 24, 2007
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