CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE
February, 26, 2007
http://charter97.org/eng/news/
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BELARUSIAN REGIME READY GO INTO DEBT
15:14 26/02/2007
Today Economy Ministry of Belarus has stated that it thinks about possible attracting untied credits for $1.2 billion from China. Earlier Belarusian government asked Russia to give $1.5 billion stabilization credit to Belarus. "No we can judge the quality of Belarusian government's work. It is not going to deal with the reasons of crisis in the economy of Belarus; it is just trying to patch holes with the help of the easiest way, considering the short term perspective, to run into debt. Thus the government is
destroying one of the few positive results of its policy, a very low foreign debt," told a well-known Belarusian economist Yaraslau Ramanchuk to the Charter'97 press-center, commenting on the recent initiatives of the government.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/dolg
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RUSSIA AND BELARUS HAVE NO TIME TO SETTLE ISSUES OF MUTUAL TRADE
10:39 26/02/2007
Belarus has doubts that Belarusian-Russian agreement on mutual trade could be signed on March 1, Interfax informs. This date was stated by mass media previously, but now it is unlikely. As said by the source, the agreement is being considered by the both governments, that is why it is impossible to cite its contents. However, the text of the agreement hasn't been agreed upon by the sides yet.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/vopros
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STANISLAU BAHDANKEVICH: PRICES TO INCREASE AT LEAST TWOFOLD THIS YEAR
18:28 26/02/2007
Hike in prices for different groups of goods is observed in Belarus of late. A former chairman of the National Bank of Belarus, Professor, Doctor of Science Stanislau Bahdankevich has explained "Salidarnasts" what is the reason for that, what would happen next and why the current government should be substituted.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/ceny
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TARANTINOS CLASSIC PULP FICTION DUBBED INTO BELARUSIAN
17:59 26/02/2007
A group of prominent Belarusian rockers, journalists and actors have dubbed Quentin Tarantinos 1994 cult film Pulp Fiction into the Belarusian language, BelaPAN reported.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/cinema
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IN KOBRIN SIGNATURES ARE COLLECTED AGAINST ERECTION OF A TEMPLE NAMED AFTER SUVOROV
17:48 26/02/2007
Today in Kobrin the opposition activists have started explaining the grounds for erection of a so-called Suvorov's temple to the population of the town. Simultaneously signatures have been collected against this project of the Orthodox Church.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/kobrin
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YARASLAU RAMANCHUK: GOVERNMENT SET TO STRIKE PRIVATIZATION BARGAINS
17:21 26/02/2007
Today at the meeting of Belarusian Prime Minister Syarhei Sidorski with a member of the board of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Austria Patrick J. S. Butler a statement has been made that Belarus intends to attract up to EUR 1 billion worth of investments from Raiffeisen Zentralbank Austria (RZB). "A billion worth of investments from Raiffeisen is obviously an excess of own capacity, as Belarusian Priorbank, the Austrian bank's partner, has suspended granting of ruble credits. Though this financial institution the government
is going to strike privatization bargains which are unknown for others still," an economist Yaraslau Ramanchuk comments on the statement to Charter'97.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/romanchuk
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NEZAVISIMOYA GAZETA: RUSSIA WILL FINANCE BELARUSIAN ECONOMY FOR THE BELARUSIAN LOYALTY
17:17 26/02/2007
Russia will openly finance Belarusian economics for its political loyalty. Implicit crediting will be changed for explicit one, Nezavisimoya Gazeta reports. On Saturday head of the ministry for economic development Herman Gref declared the readiness of the Russian government to consider the issue of granting a stand-by credit of USD1.5 billion to Belarus. Thus, the experts consider, Moscow and Minsk decided to employ the USSR-Cuba model of bilateral relationship.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/ng
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NEW ADMINISTRATIVE CODE PROVIDES FOR ADMINISTRATIVE ARREST FOR 25 DAYS
16:16 26/02/2007
As "Vechernij Brest" has been informed by the head of legislative execution and legality control department of regional procuracy, counsellor of justice Alyaksandr Kulich, the new Code on Administrative violations provides for a maximal penalty of 25 days of administrative arrest. Earlier the maximum term was 15 days. Many judges are uninformed about that still, as the texts of the new codes have just been received by them, though they are to come into force in a few days.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/new
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MILINKEVICH: STABILIZATION LOAN WILL ONLY PUT BELARUS INTO BONDAGE TO RUSSIA
16:03 26/02/2007
The $1.5-billion stabilization loan that the Belarusian government wants to receive from Russia will not save the situation but only put the nation into bondage to the eastern neighbor, commented opposition leader Alyaksandr Milinkevich in a statement posted on his Web site on Saturday.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/milinkevich
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BELARUSIAN AMBASSADOR ACCUSED RUSSIAN MASS MEDIA OF UNLEASHING INFORMATION WAR
15:13 26/02/2007
Extraordinary and plenipotentionary ambassador of Belarus to Russia Vasil Dalgalyou considers that "not simply a propagandist campaign but just an information war has been lately unleashed by Russia against Belarus".
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/posol
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ULADZIMIR NAVUMAU GOES TO NEW YORK TO UN CONFERENCE
14:23 26/02/2007
Belarusian Foreign Minister Uladzimir Navumau is to stay in New York from 4 to 7 March. He is to take part in an international conference on Trafficking in Women and Girls. It has been stated in a resolution of the Council of Ministers by which Uladzimir Navumau was delegated to New York. The resolution has been signed by Belarusian Prime Minister Syarhei Sidorski. The Charter'97 press-center has managed to find out what kind of conference it is.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/naumov
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YOUTH ACTIVIST DZYANYS DZYANYSAU'S LOCATION IS STILL UNKNOWN
13:03 26/02/2007
16 February the militia detained opposition activist Dzyanys Dzyanysau at the Gomel railway station and guarded him to an isolation ward .It is unknown whether any charge has been laid to him. According to his mother Raisa Dzyanysava, she was confirmed by phone that her son had been guarded to Vitsebsk. , but the Vitebsk isolation ward's guard denies Dzyanysau's presence there. The mother with a parcel to Dzyanys has been meeting all night trains from Gomel but her son was not brought, Radio Svaboda reports.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/denisov
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WHY NAVUMAU GOES TO US?
12:48 26/02/2007
Belarusian Interior Minister Uladzimir Navumau (Naumov) is to visit the US. It is still unknown why the minister who had been denied entry to many countries as a suspect in abductions and assassinations of opposition leaders and a journalist, visits the US. The Interior Ministry press service does not comment on that fact. The "Ezhednevnik" has asked experts about possible reason of Navumau's visit to the US.
http://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2007/02/26/usa
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CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE
February, 26, 2007
http://charter97.org/eng/news/