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The National Future of Belarus 04/18/2008 - 12:10 / Foreign Policy in FocusLast December Vladimir Putin of Russia paid a visit to Aleksandr Lukashenka of Belarus. This prompted local and international media to speculate on whether the visit was to clinch a deal between the two presidents for a (re)unification of Belarus with Russia. Belarusian nationalists bemoaned the prospect while tacitly admitting that they wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. Although nothing came of the meeting, the issue remains on the agenda.
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Dancing Around Dictatorship 04/12/2008 - 00:40 / The Prague WandererIn the middle of the documentary “Belarusian Waltz,” director Andrzej Fidyk moves the camera from his hero, Alexander Pushkin, to his wife. She smiles sweetly and recites a popular joke: A Belarusian man is hanged, and his body is left dangling from the noose for two days, until officials take him down and lay him on the grass. The man comes to and starts coughing. The shocked officials ask him, "How is it possible?" The man replies, "You know, it was hard – but I got used to it."
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Dark Dance 04/11/2008 - 00:42 / EconomistAmerica calls it the “last dictatorship in Europe”. It has political prisoners, police crackdowns, state-run media and a security service called the KGB. So Belarus's image could do with polishing. Its irascible president, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, seems to accept this: Tim Bell, one of Britain's top public-relations men, was recently seen in Minsk, where he was in talks about a consultancy contract. As a Tory spin-doctor, he helped turn Margaret Thatcher into an election-winner. As Lord Bell he represents rich eastern Europeans such as Boris Berezovsky, an émigré Russian oligarch.
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Belarus: Political Draft 04/10/2008 - 17:35 / ISN Security WatchNATO should respond forcefully to Belarus over indications of a new trend to use the military draft for political ends, Jeremy Druker comments for ISN Security Watch.
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Why Does Lord Bell Refuse to Comment on Events That Took Place on March 25 and 27? 04/04/2008 - 01:12 / European Radio for BelarusHuman rights defenders are joking when they say that searches in offices of journalists and the dispersal of the demonstration on March 25 were “the results of the work of lord Bell in action”, the European Union calls the events “a display of dictatorship” while senator Charhinets says they were “a journalists’ dictatorship of the rules of the game”. At the same time, lord Bell, who has recently been announced responsible for the foreign image of Belarus, suddenly disappeared from his office after having given the comment he had promised to ERB.
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 Bellicosity in Belarus 03/10/2008 - 18:08 / The Washington TimesThe recent arrest of Alyaksandr Zdzvizhkou, deputy editor-in-chief of Zhoda newspaper in Belarus, should not surprise anyone familiar with this black hole of a European country. His crime? Reprinting Muhammad cartoons that appeared in a Danish newspaper two years ago and which were copied from a Web site. The editor, accused of inciting ethnic and religious enmity was sentenced to five years in prison.
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Inflaming Religious Hatred 02/11/2008 - 01:11Severe verdict to Aliaxandar Zdvizhkou, editor of “Zhoda” newspaper, for the reprinting of famous caricature of prophet Muhammed, evidently didn’t mean showing the protection of the right of muslims. It was nothing more than an another act of intimidation of journalist community – it is doubtful that it was a flirt with muslim fundamentalists, Ahmadinejad, particularly. Nevertheless, there is a need to clarify verything about the formal reason of this revkoнфpressive verdict.
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Baby Formula Drought Irks Belarus Mothers - Chavez to Blame? 11/15/2007 - 14:34 / Monster and CriticsGuaranteed supplies of low-cost powdered milk and baby formula have long been a priority for Belarus' authoritarian President Aleksander Lukashenko, a former collective farm boss and a canny judge of what it takes to maintain public support. But now these products are disappearing from the shelves of state- run food stores - and consumers in the former Soviet republic are blaming, of all people, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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Survivor of Wartime Massacre, Saved by Strange Twist of Fate, Searches for His Past 11/12/2007 - 17:11 / PR-insideAmong the splinters of a memory shattered by the Holocaust is Alex Kurzem's image of himself as a jolly little boy who liked to climb an apple tree in the family garden, pretending to be a sailor scanning the horizon from the crow's nest. Then, at about age 6 or 8, a carefree childhood ends and life becomes a story of horror and deliverance.
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