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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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Belarus: Theories Abound In Ouster Of KGB Chief 07/20/2007 - 02:20 / Radio Liberty The chairman of Belarus's State Security Committee (KGB) was dismissed on July 17 -- just days after the KGB publicly boasted of its success in uncovering a spy ring it said was supplying secrets about Belarusian and Russian defense interests to Poland.
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East: 'New Kind Of Press Censorship' In CIS 07/10/2007 - 03:57 / Radio LibertyA new type of media censorship has taken hold in the countries of the former Soviet Union, and the result has been a suppression of independent media.
That’s according to a new report called “Muzzling The Media: The Return Of Censorship In The Commonwealth Of Independent States” by Freedom House, which found that broadcast monopolies, oligarchic power, corrupt judiciaries, and Internet censorship has resulted in less press freedom than existed in the early 1990s.
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Belarus: Religious freedom campaigners detained 07/05/2007 - 15:13 / forum18.orgBelarusian police have, within two days, detained 19 Catholics and Protestants petitioning to change the harsh 2002 Religion Law. The arrests happened after signatures were collected at a prominent Catholic pilgrimage site, Budslav, and in the capital Minsk. One of those arrested, Sergei Lukanin, told Forum 18 News Service from Minsk's Frunze District Police Station that he and five other campaigners were "sitting in an office with three policemen who refuse to allow us to leave or to explain why we are here."
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KGB, Police Officers Arrested in Belarus 06/27/2007 - 05:58 / forbes.comBelarusian prosecutors arrested a current and a former state security officer and a former top Interior Ministry officer Monday, the latest figures to be targeted in what officials say is a widening corruption investigation into the petroleum industry.
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 Jewish leader calls Ahmadinejad’s visit to Belarus ‘shameful’ 05/25/2007 - 02:48The Jewish community in Belarus has sharply criticized this week's surprise visit in the country by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“How is it possible to invite a person, the leader of a state, who thinks that in order to resolve the Middle East problem it is necessary to destroy a whole state and people?,” Yakov Basin, deputy head of the Union of Jewish Associations of Belarus, asked.
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Where Tyranny Rules 01/05/2007 - 20:52 / TIME.comNikolai Statkevich tried to buck the system in 2001: he ran for President of Belarus. The country calls itself democratic, but President Alexander Lukashenko, in power for 11 years, runs it like the last dictatorship in Europe and brooks no challenges to his neo-Stalinist rule. That's why Statkevich, 49, leader of the opposition Social Democratic party, found himself confined to a prison barrack in the town of Baranovichi, 120 km west of Minsk, the nation's capital.
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Debate Over Chernobyl's True Toll Continues 01/03/2007 - 04:35 / Voice of AmericaA recent United Nations report about the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl 20 years ago says the consequences of the disaster were overblown and that scientists now believe the radioactive nuclear fallout was not as harmful to human health as previously reported. But for those living in what was long believed to be one of the worst affected countries, Ukraine, the message does not ring true.
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