The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE January, 31, 2008 http://charter97.org/en/news/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CARBINES, GRENADES AND GAS AGAINST PEOPLE (PHOTO, VIDEO) 31.01.2008, 12:22 Police used KS-23 carbines, aerosol hand-grenades Dreif and tear gas Cheryumukha-1 and Cheryumukha-6, rubber truncheons PR-73 on 25 March, 2006. It can be concluded from the article Non-fatal case published today in the newspaper of the Presidents Administration Savetskaya Belorussia. In spite of evident facts (see photo), police Lieutenant Colonel Vasili Svistunou, deputy chief of the special police squad of the city internal affairs department at the city executive committee, who showed journalist Tatyana Shchadronak special police weapon, denies this fact. http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/1/31/3482/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NUCLEAR POWER PLANT TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN BELARUS, EVEN IF PEOPLE ARE AGAINST 31.01.2008, 17:51 On January 31 Alyaksandr Lukashenka signed a decree of the security council On development of nuclear power industry in the Republic of Belarus, according to which the first power-generating unit of the nuclear power plant to be put in operation in 2016. http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/1/31/3496/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIND THE CLOSING BORDERS! 31.01.2008, 15:40 Alyaksandr Barazenka, studying in Poland by Kalinouski education programme, wasnt allowed to leave Belarus. http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/1/31/3495/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FROM PRISON TO PROSECUTORS OFFICE FOR INTERROGATION 31.01.2008, 14:00 Today young activists detained for 10 days for participation in a protest rally of market vendors on January 21 are released from the detention center in Akrestsin Street in Minsk. http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/1/31/3492/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LUKASHENKA ATTACKING WESTERN AMBASSADORS AGAIN 31.01.2008, 12:48 Alyaksandr Lukashenka expressed his dissatisfaction with activity of the ambassadors of the most EU countries and the US, but noted a positive role of Germanys ambassador to Minsk. I dont fully understand roles of most of the EU ambassadors, and especially, the US ambassador. I dont want to hide it, and thats why I express sharp criticism sometimes, he said. http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/1/31/3485/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MORE THAN THOUSAND BELARUSIANS PUT SIGNATURES AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 31.01.2008, 12:35 Horki anti-nuclear initiative against construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus has found out that more than 1,000 signatures have been collected already. http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/1/31/3483/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POLICE BEAT OPPOSITION YOUTHS IN SALIHORSK 31.01.2008, 12:16 Opposition youths are reported to have beaten up by police in Salihorsk, Minsk region, on Wednesday over a demonstration staged in protest against increasing crackdown on sole entrepreneurs. http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/1/31/3480/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BELARUSIAN MILITARY MEN RECALL STALINIST VOCABULARY 31.01.2008, 11:46 When a democratic activist Zmitser Zhaleznichenka, who was urgently drafted to the army, stated that he would execute only orders in Belarusian, the official newspaper of the Defense Ministry Belorusskaya Voennaya Gazeta (Formerly Vo Slavy Rodiny) launched out an accusatory article in the style of the 1930ies, calling the A-grade student who had been illegally expelled from the university a fascist. http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/1/31/3478/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BELARUS MUST BE EUROPEAN COUNTRY 31.01.2008, 11:00 The civil campaign European Belarus started on 24 January. The initiators of the campaign are Mikhail Marynich, former minister of foreign economic affairs, ambassador and political prisoner; Andrei Sannikov, international coordinator of Charter97; Viktar Ivashkevich, deputy head of the Belarusian Popular Front party; and Mikola Statkevich, leader of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Narodnaya Gramada). http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/1/31/3477/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STATES GRANT THEIR RESOURCES IN DEVASTATION, AFTER WAR OR REVOLUTION 31.01.2008, 10:08 Belarus is going to grant a concession on a number of mineral deposits to attract foreign investments. As independent experts think, this step is an evidence of difficult economic situation in the country. http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/1/31/3472/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BELARUSIAN PARLIAMENT AGAINST BELARUSIAN PEOPLES REPUBLIC 31.01.2008, 9:34 Yesterday the Organizing Committee for celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the Belarusian Peoples Republic received a disallowance of the Commission on Education, Culture, Science and Scientific-and-technological advance of the chamber of representatives to announce the year 2008 the Year of Belarusian Statehood. http://www.charter97.org/en/news/2008/1/31/3470/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHARTER'97 BELARUS NEWS UPDATE January, 31, 2008 http://charter97.org/en/news/ -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=media.charter97&email=e@mail http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com