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Office for a Democratic Belarus: where Belarus and Brussels meet.
Local Elections in Belarus - 25th April 2010
Report N1:
European Exchange and Belarusian Human Rights Defenders begin their Monitoring of the Local Elections in Belarus
In Belarus, elections to the local councils are being held on the 25th April. European Exchange is continuing its cooperation with the Minsk Human Rights Organisations - the Human Rights Center 'Viasna' and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee - which began during the Belarusian parliamentary elections in 2008. This year, it is again reporting on the developments of the elections. The election monitoring campaign, 'Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections', which was initiated in 2008, has since received the award 'Civil Campaign of the Year 2008' from the Association of Pro-Democratic Nongovernmental Organisations in Belarus.
This year, the campaign 'Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections', in which around 130 local experts, lawyers and journalists in all regions of the country are involved, should observe whether the election campaign is conducted in the correct manner. Because the international organisations are not sending a full-scale election monitoring mission to the local elections, the reports from the non-partisan, domestic election observers will be the central independent source of information during the entire election process in Belarus. The assessment of the local election campaign will also be a test for Lukashenka's government ahead of the presidential elections, which are to take place in the winter of 2010-2011. |
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News from Belarus
2010-03-10 09:48 / ERB
 A famous opposition activist, former deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Sannikau has announced that he is going to run for President. Sannikau: “I count on people’s support as an opposition candidate. A tendency of listening to the authorities and helping them a bit has appeared now. I have always been proud of being an opposition activist and I will advertise myself in this way”.
2010-03-10 09:44 / The Financial
Belarusian producers of fat-and-oil products propose to lower prices for rapeseed oil in order to process the product for food aims. The price should become lower in order to use rapeseed oil for food processing and bottling, declared Galina Kustinskaya, the director of OJSC Bobruisk plant of vegetable oils, on March 3.
2010-03-10 09:42 / UPI
 Legal gambling in Belarus should not be banned but rather well-regulated to raise government revenue, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka said Tuesday.
2010-03-10 09:40 / msn news
 Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka on Tuesday approved a five-year tax amnesty to encourage the repatriation of funds from abroad and boost the economy, officials said.
2010-03-09 16:10 / ERB
 The Belarusian leader has not given an official answer to the invitation of the Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. The Lithuanian Ambassador to Belarus Edminas Bagdonas has informed about it at a press conference.
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International news on Belarus
2010-03-09 16:12 / ERB
European deputies have suggested introducing a number of limitations for Belarus if the country’s authorities do not start observing human rights and democratic standards. It is said in the project of the resolution of the biggest political group of the European Parliament – the European People’s Party.
2010-03-09 16:06 / naviny.by
 A vice president of Cagliari, a region on the Italian island of Sardinia, will pay an official visit to Belarus on March 10 and 11. Cagliari Vice President Angela Maria Quaquero will hold meetings at the labor and education ministries, as well as visit the labor ministry’s National Institute of Further Training.
2010-03-09 16:03 / naviny.by
 The first meeting of a Belarusian-Polish expert group that was established to discuss possible solutions to the problem of the Union of Poles in Belarus (UPB) has been postponed by a week. The meeting, initially scheduled for March 9, has been postponed, tentatively until March 16, because of differences between the parties on the issue, an informed source told BelaPAN.
2010-03-09 13:01 / naviny.by
 The Party of Greens of Ukraine is protesting the construction of Belarus' nuclear power plant, describing the future station as an extremely hazardous facility. "Belarus is one of the countries that have been hit worst by the Chernobyl accident," Party Deputy Chairman Pavlo Khazan said in an interview with BelaPAN. "We firmly believe that energy demand should be satisfied through wise energy consumption and energy efficiency efforts and energy sources should be diversified, while plans to increase the capacity of existing nuclear power plants or build new stations should be dropped."
2010-03-09 11:22 / AFP
France urged international financial bodies to finance a new era of global nuclear power on Monday and pitched its own reactor technology as the model to follow. Welcoming delegates from 60 energy-hungry nations to a conference in Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy said civil nuclear power had been unfairly passed over for World Bank development loans.
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Policy briefs Analysis, policy reports and briefs
2010-03-10 11:47 / RIA Novosti
By Michael Delyagin, Director of the Institute on Problems of Globalization.
At the moment of disintegration of the Soviet Union Belarus of the time didn't in any way stand out for Russia from the general circle of the states of the postSoviet space. Democratic movement there was rather moderated (and had basically character of ecological reaction to Chernobyl accident), antisovietism and anticommunism were limited to a narrow layer of intelligence and separate representatives of culture.
2010-03-08 10:57 / International Relations and Security Network
 The closing of Lithuania’s only nuclear power plant in accordance with EU requirements will render it dependent on Russian energy and perhaps vulnerable to Kremlin influence, Anna Dunin writes for ISN Security Watch.
By Anna Dunin for ISN Security Watch
2010-03-05 13:52 / The European Exchange, Human Rights Centre 'Viasna',the Belaruski Helsinki Committee
In Belarus, elections to the local councils are being held on the 25th April. European Exchange is continuing its cooperation with the Minsk Human Rights Organisations – the Human Rights Center ‘Viasna’ and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee – which began during the Belarusian parliamentary elections in 2008. This year, it is again reporting on the developments of the elections. The election monitoring campaign, ‘Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections’, which was initiated in 2008, has since received the award ‘Civil Campaign of the Year 2008’ from the Association of Pro-Democratic Nongovernmental Organisations in Belarus.
2010-03-04 10:53 / spring 96.org
In 2009 the situation in the sphere of freedom of association in Belarus failed to undergo significant changes, the main problems in the formation and activities of public associations remaining unaltered. The practice of denying registration to public associations and political parties on dubious grounds including the socio-political stand of the associations’ founders was continued. A ban on the activities of unregistered public associations, foundations, political parties and religious organizations was kept in force resulting in criminal penalties for such activities (Article 193-1 of the Criminal Code, ‘Illegal organization of a public association, religious organization or foundation or participation in their activities’ .
2010-03-04 10:34 / Radio Free Europe
By Danila Galperovich
At the very moment when one part of the Russian establishment is cautiously welcoming a thaw in relations with the United States and NATO, another part of it (evidently the more influential part) has determined the North Atlantic alliance and its actions constitute one of the most serious threats to Russian security. This is made clear in the new military doctrine that was confirmed by President Dmitry Medvedev on February 5.
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The European Commission has issued a call for proposals for new regional investment and trade facilitation project EAST-INVEST for Eastern Partnership countries. |
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