Opposition Politician Urges Exarch Filaret to Appeal for Softer Punishment on Journalist Zdvizhkow 01/23/2008 - 18:03 / Naviny.by Opposition politician urges Exarch Filaret to appeal for softer punishment on journalist Zdvizhkow deputy chairman of the Belarusian Popular Front (BPF) has called on Minsk and Slutsk Metropolitan Filaret, head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus, to appeal for a softer punishment on journalist Alyaksandr Zdvizhkow. comments: 0
Sinikka Hurskainen Heading PACE Sub-Committee on Belarus 01/23/2008 - 17:58 / Charter97 A new head of the PACE sub-committee on Belarus was chosen. Sinikka Hurskainen, Finnish member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe followed Estonian MP Andres Herkel as head of the Sub-Committee. Meanwhile the discussion of the Belarusian situation at the session of the Political Affairs Committee of the PACE has finished in Strasbourg. comments: 0
