News on 1.04.2011

1.04.2011

Andrei Sannikov started to familiarize himself with case materials 49

19:16, — Politics

Andrei Sannikov, a presidential candidate, who is charged by the regime with organizing the so-called “mass riots”, started to familiarize himself with his criminal case.

Foreign trade deficit over two months is 2 billion dollars

15:38, — Economics

The foreign trade deficit over two month is 2 billion dollars.

Case against Statkevich and Us sent to court

15:31, — Politics

A criminal case against presidential candidates Mikalai Statkevich and Dzmitry Us has been sent to the Court of Minsk today to lay the venue.

Bishop Veniamin promises to seek meeting between Pavel Sevyarynets and a priest 16

15:27, — Politics

Bishop of Borysausk, vicar of Minsk diocese Veniamin said during the talks with Tatsyana Sevyarynets that he would help to organize a meeting of a priest with Tatsyana’s son, BCD co-chairman Pavel Sevyarynets.

EU welcomes decision by third countries to join sanctions against dictator 17

15:21, — Politics

The European Union welcomes the decision by some non-EU countries to join the sanctions against certain Belarusian officials.

Emanuelis Zingeris discussed Belarus’ NPP in US Congress 17

13:27, — Nuclear power plant in Belarus

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairwoman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, promises to look into the matter of Lithuania’s concerns related to Belarus’ plans to build a nuclear power plant not far from Vilnius.

US Congress to hold hearings on Belarus on April 1 10

13:19, — Politics

As informed by the official website of the US Congress, the hearings are to be held by the Committee on Foreign Relations together with the Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia, and with the Subcommittee on Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights.

Dwellers of Minsk residential district want Belarusian-speaking kindergartens for their children 15

13:02, — society

People, who want their children to attend Belarusian-speaking kindergartens, have formed parents’ committee in Sukharava, a residential district of Minsk.

Total lawlessness of special services. How people are invited “for conversation” in Belarus 83

11:59, — Politics

In a flat in Belski Street in Minsk policemen have beaten up and detained a dweller of Slutsk Vadzim Ramanau.

Metropolitan Filaret declines to meet with Tatsyana Sevyarynets

11:30, — Politics

Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, the Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus Filaret has refused to meet with Tatsyana Sevyarynets, the mother of political prisoner Pavel Sevyarynets.

Does KGB interrogate journalists because of Natallya Radzina? 37

9:23, — Politics

On March 31 in the evening Maryna Koktysh, deputy chief editor of “Narodnaya Volya”, was summoned for interrogation to the KGB in relation to disappearance of Natallya Radzina.

Natallya Radzina left the country 385

9:17, — Politics

Charter97.org editor-in-chief Natallya Radzina (Natalya Radina) is out of reach of the Belarusian KGB.

Expert: Belarusian economic model is dead end 30

0:50, — Economics

The Belarusian economic complex is in a situation when old means don’t work for further development.