Homel dweller fails to repeat dictator’s trick

Uladzimir Nyapomnyashchykh wanted to mark his birthday on the same day with Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his younger son.

The Civil Registry Office of the Chyhunachny district of Homel denied the city dweller correct the date of his birth. He wanted to have the date of his birth on August 31 instead of September 31, BelaPAN reports.

Uladzimir Nyapomnyashchykh, a retired militia officer, activist of the United Civil Party, For Freedom movement and Independent Trade Union of Radio Electronics Workers, applied to the Civil Registry Office on September 8 asking to change the date of his birth.

"I want to celebrate my

Belarus will open Trading Houses in Turkmenistan and Venezuela

Belarusian Trading Houses are planned to be open in Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

Till the end of the year a Trading House will be open in Ashkhabad, in the perspective— in Venezuela, Deputy Trade Minister Aleh Yakubovich told to BelaPAN.

The Deputy Minister also noted that Belarusian Trading House "Ar-Be" started operating on September, 30 in Armenia.

The opening of Trading Houses, Yakubovich underlined, is an important step on the way to Belarusian goods export. "This direction has good prospects and will seriously influence the increase of Belarusian goods export", — the Deputy Minister is convinced.

At the same time he

Baraulyany dwellers sustain a siege (Photo)

In the settlement of Baraulyany instructions related to the visit of Alyaksandr Lukashenka to the Centre of Child Oncology and Hematology appeared on front doors.

A copy of the notification has been received by charter97.org from our visitors. Citizens of Baraulyany are prohibited to open windows for ventilation and to go out to balconies. Such "measures for public order protection during visits of highest state officials" are taken recently all the time and everywhere Alyaksandr Lukashenka goes.

Source: Charter'97 :: News from Belarus

A picket for Bykau Street in Minsk (Photo)

On November 9 a rally was held in Minsk. Its participants demanded to rename Ulyanauskaya Street into Vasil Bykau Street.

At 1 p.m. about three dozens of activists of "Tell the Truth!" campaign formed a human chain along Ulyanayskaya Street. They were holding flags of "Tell the Truth!" campaign and posters with the pictures of plates with street numbers in their hands, where it was written "Vasil Bykay Street" and a number of a house, BelaPAN informs.

The leader of "Tell the Truth!" campaign and a candidate for the presidential position Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu, a poet Henadz Buraukin, the chairman of

Charity fundraising turned into extortions

Minsk bureaucrats have turned the noble desire to help victims of the terrorist attack in Minsk metro into a humiliating procedure of extortions.

Enterprises, organizations and universities in Minsk have received allocations for how much money they are to send to the charitable funds of Minsk city executive committee for the injured and for bereaved families. Even children in schools are to give money "voluntarily- compulsorily", as visitors of charter97.org inform.

The zeal of pen pushers who want to toady does not cause anything but irritation.

We remind that as of April 15, 5 p.m., the sum of donations

Mother of many children has been hunger-striking for five days already. Authorities are silent

Mother of many children from Mahilyow Natallya Shkadun has been hunger-striking for 5 days already. She is striving for improvement of living conditions for her family.

As Natallya Shkadun states, during this hunger-strike she hasn't been directly contacted by the authorities. The leadership of the medical institution where she works persuades her to stop the hunger-strike, as it threatens her health, "Radio Svaboda" reports.

"As far as I know, yesterday there was a call from the Regional Executive Committee to ask whether I was at work. Today, I hope, I'll have enough strength to work. I have a confining

Four soldiers injured in blast at training range in Belarus

Unexploded ordnance exploded spontaneously at a military training range on Wednesday.

The range was being prepared for firing exercises, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus.

Four soldiers got injuries of varying severity as a result of explosion. They received qualified medical treatment. Their lives are out of danger.

A commission of the Ministry of Defense and an investigative group of the Military Prosecutor's Office are working to find out reasons and details of the incident.

Source: Charter'97 :: News from Belarus

In-home fingerprinting. Innovation of Mahilou police (Video)

Mahilou police carries out fingerprinting at home without any formal procedures.

Our reader sent us a video of compulsory fingerprinting. A plainclothes officer of the Kastrychnitski district militia department simplified the procedure and decided to conduct fingerprinting not requiring people to show their IDs.

Source: Charter'97 :: News from Belarus

Half billion rubles donated to sufferers by Belarusians

A sum of more than Br 458 millions has been received on the account of Minsk city executive committee intended for relief assistance to victims of the blast.

Donations are also received at the charitable accounts of Minsk city executive committee to help survivors and victims of the tragic events of April 11 at Kastrychnitskaya (Oktyabrskaya) metro station in Minsk, the press-service of Minsk city executive committee reports.

As of April 13, the sum of donations was equal to Br 6 million 817 thousand, and for today – more than Br 458 million.

Source: Charter'97 :: News from Belarus

Minsk mourns over terrorist attack victims

On April 13 mourning over 12 victims of the bloody terrorist attack in metro was declared.

On April 13 the first funeral ceremonies for the killed in the terrorist act, are to take place. Yesterday evening a report was received that all the 12 victims of the Minsk metro blast had been identified. They are 5 women and 7 men, the youngest of them, Syarhei Hyarasimchyk, was 17, and the oldest one, Alyaksandr Parfuntsau was 47 years old. Most of them were Minsk dwellers, though citizens of Baranavichy, Lyuban and Pukhavichy districts had been killed in metro. Two of them