Sorry, this part of site is frozen for summer months.
IVth Forum Of The Belarusian Intellectuals Was Hold In Belarus
[May 14]:
IVth Forum of the Belarusian Intellectuals was hold near Mikalajeushchyna village of Staubtsy region. The Forum was hold in Prystanka town on the bank of the river Nieman. This place is famous for the Minsk region Teachers’ Meeting that took place 100 years ago, and the participants of that meeting was one of the great Belarusian poets of XXth century Jakub Kolas. At the Forum a...
m o r e 
An Activist Was Fined For “The Abuse Of Freedom Of Mass Media”
[May 4]:
22 years old activist Kiryl Ksiandzou was fined for “abuse of freedom of mass media”. The sum of the fine was 930 BLR. A former student of the Department of Journalistic of Belarusian State University had been accused of spreading a social edition of Svetlagorsk “Regijanalnyja Naviny” (“Regional News”). The article “To Inherit the...
m o r e
The Joined Celebration Of The Authorities And Democrats Of Chernobyl Anniversary Will Not Be Hold In Magileu
[Apr 23]:
On the eve of 21st anniversary of Chernobyl catastrophe a number of democratic civil organizations sent a letter to the head of the executive committee of Magileu city and proposed their help in organizing public actions in the city in order to commemorate the tragedy.
m o r e
Youth Activists Form Gomel Collect Subscripts Against Abolition Of Privileges
[Apr 23]:
Youth activists from Gomel started collecting subscripts against the abolition of the privileges. During some hours in a crowded place of the city center the students of F. Skaryna State University of Gomel gathered about 70 subscripts under the appeal to the members of the Belarusian legislative body.
m o r e
Regional Court Of Brest Liquidated “Stary Gorad”
[Apr 13]:
On April 12 according to the decision of the Regional Court of Brest a well-known cultural-educational organization “Stary Gorad” (“Old Town”) was liquidated. The judge Georgij Dmitruk supported the appeal of the Department of Justice of the Executive Committee of Brest Region in which the officials accused the organization of failing to introduce amendments to the...
m o r e
The Law “On Information” Is The Threat To Its Free Spread
[Apr 13]:
On April 12 the civil association “The Belarusian Association of Journalists” organized a press conference concerning the upcoming adoption of the law “On Information and Informatization and Information Protection”. The BAJ legal experts Andrej Bastunets and Michail Pastuchou commented on the most contradictory Articles of the draft law.
m o r e
“The Association Of Free Belarusian Historians” Is Planning To Hold A Start Up Assembly In The End Of October.
[Apr 13]:
Civic initiative “The Association Of Free Belarusian Historians” is planning to hold a start up assembly in the end of October, informed the leader of the steering committee of the organization Nina Stuzhynskaja.
m o r e
Young Inhabitants Of Goradnia Are Protesting Against The Reconstruction Of The Old Town
[Apr 10]: Young historians, architects, civic activists from Goradnia (Grodna) as well as the representatives of the historic-ethnographic association “Etna” from Minsk are concerned about the way the historic part of Goradnia has been reconstructed. They proposed their project of a by-pass road for public transport and gained the reading of the project in the department of the city building in the...
m o r e
Tadeush Gavin: The Persecution Of The Polish Activists Has Gone On
[Apr 5]:
On the 4th of April in the consulate-general of the Republic of Poland in Brest city a traditional official meeting of diplomats with the representatives of the City-on-Bug (the poetic name of Brest which is situated on the river Bug) took place. At the meeting the participants discussed the questions concerned the polish diaspore in Belarus.
m o r e
Freedom Day Ended with Dispersal and Arrests
[Mar 25]:
About 10 thousan people tool part in the rally on the Freedom Day in the capital. The rally participants were not allowed to go to Kastryčnickaya square in spite of the official permission of city executive committee to gather at this place. The city center was blocked till the evening. There were several police officers on each 20 m of the main avenue. Kastryčnickaya square was...
m o r e
Mahileŭ-based member of NGO Assembly Working Group Warned by Police
[Mar 24]: On March 23 member of the working group of NGO Assembly, Vital Vasilkoŭ, was summoned to the Leninski police department of Mahileŭ where he was informed about impermissibility of breach of law.
As we informed earlier Vital Vasilkoŭ was a victim of the last year ‘hunting’ of the police for local democratic activists on the eve of the Freedom Day. He was arrested by...
m o r e
News archive
