News on 16.03.2011

16.03.2011

Who hides provocateurs? 54

18:59, — Politics

The opposition activists, who have been questioned by the KGB Counterintelligence Department, claim the instigators of the provocation on Independence Square have not been detained.

Lithuanian minister offers to convene State Defence Council because of Belarus’ NPP 24

18:29, — Nuclear power plant in Belarus

Eligijus Masiulis, Minister of Transport and Communications of Lithuania, offers to convene the State Defence Council and to express the official position in connection with the nuclear power plant which is to be constructed in Belarus.

Vasilevich refused to investigate tortures 24

17:50, — Politics

The General Prosecutor’s Office of Belarus has forwarded to the Belarusian Military Prosecutor’s Office a petition to the procurator's office of Ales Byalyatski, a human rights activist. The petition concerns the facts of tortures used against a former presidential candidate, Alyaksei Mikhalevich.

KGB robbed pro-democracy activists’ office in Rechytsa 9

17:23, — Politics

On March 15 KGB officers searched flats of pro-democracy activists in Rechytsa.

Price of the word 39

16:44, Mikalai Khalezin — Politics

Every word has its weight. Every word is able both to cure and kill.

Mikhalevich is in Prague already 46

14:25, — Politics

The presidential candidate in Belarus, Ales Mikhalevich, who has escaped from the hands of the Belarusian special services, is already in the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague.

'My husband phoned to say he was going to the sauna...we never saw him again' 22

14:19, — Politics

Anatoly Krasovsky is one of many Belarus dissidents to have vanished under Europe's 'last dictatorship'.

Are names of riot policemen who had broken Maya Abromchyk’s leg known? 32

11:04, — Politics

“I have already a third lawyer, but I do not trust him either. When they hear about our case, they change countenance immediately,” Maya Abromchyk’s mother said.

Mass preventive arrests among anarchists 13

10:32, — Politics

There were mass arrests of young people on March 15 who are believed by police to be involved in the anarchist movement.

KGB takes away Dzmitry Us’s passport 7

9:39, — Politics

On March 15, former presidential candidate Dzmitry Us was called in to appear before a KGB investigator and asked to sign an undertaking not to leave the town.

Russia says Belarus seeking $3 billion in loans 70

0:15, Reuters — Economics

Belarus is seeking $3 billion in loans from Russia and an emergency fund linking ex-Soviet republics, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday.