News from Belarus

The former political prisoner and the prisoner of conscience Valery Levaneuski during some years tries to receive from Penalty Executions Department of Ministry of Internal Affairs RB, from a management of prisons and colonies of a copy of decisions about imposing on him of punishments (in the form of a premise in penal insulator, deprivations of appointments, reprimands, etc.) in imprisonment places. Read more »

The Belarus entrepreneurs have spent one-day national strike. Among requirements - cancellation of the presidential decree according to which individual entrepreneurs can involve as hired workers only members of a family and near relations. Read more »

The Ministry of Justice of Belarus and Court of Lenin area of Grodno have in writing apologized to Valery Levaneuski for unreliable information granting. Read more »

As has noted in the performance the Ambassador of the USA in Belarus Karen Stewart, such meetings became already traditional and this tradition will proceed. During reception problems of political prisoners in Belarus, mass reprisals by the Belarus authorities concerning the citizens have been discussed at carrying out of peace meetings and demonstrations, including, meeting of entrepreneurs on the October area of Minsk 10.12.2007 and the meeting 12.12.2007 devoted to arrival of Vladimir Putin to Belarus. Read more »

The court of Factory area of Minsk has sentenced entrepreneurs Ales Tolstyka and Ruslan Lucenka to 7 and 10 days of arrest, accordingly. Entrepreneurs have condemned for distribution of leaflets with the information on meeting which should pass on December, 10th on the October area of Minsk. Read more »

The law № 287-3 “About amnesty of some categories of the persons who have committed crimes” is signed. The law comes into force from the date of its publication.
On October, 24th the given bill has been approved by the House of Representatives, on November, 16th it was supported by members of Council of Republic. Read more »

On November, 25th, 2007 to the candidate for Presidents, to the leader of opposition, professor A. Kozulin leaving on political grounds punishment in the form of imprisonment in colony -3, are executed 52 years. Former political prisoner Valery Levaneuski and his family have wished Alexander Kozulin happy birthday by the telegramme: Read more »

About two thousand individual entrepreneurs have taken part in meeting which has passed on November, 19th in park of Friendship of the people in Minsk. The action has been authorized by the city authorities and organized by entrepreneurs. Besides individual entrepreneurs was trading in Minsk and some other cities of the country. Read more »

On November, 20th, 2007 in Valery Levaneuski’s family significant day - «Silver wedding». Valery and Marina are familiar from the first class. On November, 20th, 1982 two loving hearts have decided to create a family. In one and a half year the first son Dmitry, then the second - Uladzimir, then daughter Ekaterina and son Anton was born. Read more »

10 November was the deadline for the entrepreneurs who wanted to re-register as juridical persons on privileged conditions. The Ministry of Economy of Belarus informed that more than 9.000 people have sent documents for re-registration as unitary private enterprises. However, there are more than 200.000 of individual entrepreneurs. So, less than 5 per cent of them have yielded to the organized by the authorities mass propaganda campaign on re-registration from individual entrepreneurs into unitary private enterprises. Read more »