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Valery Levaneuski`s opinion on question about who should represent Belarus at the summit of “East partnership» which will pass in Prague on May, 7th, to correspondent Euramost.org:

-What do you think about the possibility of Belarus inclusion in the program offered by the European Union “East partnership”?

I support the idea that Belarus always would take part and will be presented on any events. Another question – who will present it? If only one person of president I don`t agree with it. I do not take him as the head of the independent state. I maintain the fact that Europe helps us to be designated as the independent state. Read more »

To entrepreneurs of Grodno it is given up in carrying out of meeting. One of initiators of action Valery Levaneuski has informed Belapan about this. Entrepreneurs of Grodno planned to lead on March, 25th meeting on which intended to make demands in protection of the rights of entrepreneurs, and also to support democracy, a freedom of speech and a freedom of assembly in Belarus. Read more »

Public figure Valery Levaneuski after two years of imprisonment is released from the Ivatsevichi’s corrective colony. The human rights organisation “International amnesty” considered as its prisoner of conscience. Read more »

As informs radio “Svaboda”, one of these days with the leader of the Grodno entrepreneurs, political prisoner Valery Levaneuski relatives have met in the Ivatsevichi’s colony. Read more »

On the eve of the presidential elections in Belarus the authorities have consolidated State repressions against opposition members, mainly youth activists. Youth organisations are considered to be a real threat to the regime as declared the chairman of KGB. That is why a number of young people have experienced the terroristic methods of the lawless regime. Recently four activists of Young Front have been imprisoned and put on trial as criminals on vain pretexts. A great number of people have been arrested after the election campaign have started. Read more »

. Valiery Lievanieuski (Valery Levaneuski) was taken from Ivatsevichy prison to the Republican prison hospital, said Radio Liberty. According to the prisoner’s relations, the heart problems got worse after Lievanieuski had been on hunger-strikes to protest against the violation of his rights. According to Lievanieuski’s son Uladzimier, “he first started to have problems with the heart and back, but he does not know why. He decided to undergo treatment and get a medical checkup at the same time”. Read more »

Belarusian authorities have stroke the hardest blow on independent press so far. The only independent daily, Narodnaia Volia, faces the danger of disappearance. On 30 September, in his speech to the Defense Soviet, Aliaksandr Lukashenka stated it was necessary to protect Belarusian society from foreign informational expansion and “induction of instability by anti-Belarusian information resources”. Read more »

The leader of the Hrodna businessmen Valiery Lievanieuski (Valery Levaneuski) who is now serving a sentence in Ivatsevichy Prison asks the administration to open a chamber for believers of various denominations. Uladzimir Levanieuski, the prisoner`s son, told Radio Liberty about this initiative of his father. According to Valiery Lievanieuski, most of the prisoners are atheists and those who believe in God are mostly Orthodox. However, there are quite a few Catholics, Protestants and representatives of other denominations. Valiery Lievanieuski himself is Catholic. The prisoner`s son reminded that the father never was a staunch believer, however he went to church regularly. Read more »

The Supreme Court of Belarus finally responded to the complaint of Valiery Lievanieuski (Valery Levaneuski), submitted in March 2005 against the sentence, according to which he was found guilty in defamation of president and punished with two years of jail. The Supreme Court decided to leave the sentence unchanged. Read more »

August, 15 is the birthday of the Belarusian political prisoner, chairman of the All-National Strike Committee of Vendors, member of the Council of Civil Initiatives “Free Belarus” Valery Levaneuski. He turns 42 today. Family and relatives, activists of the All-National Strike Committee, the steering committee, the press center of the Charter’97, the Council of the Civil Initiatives “Free Belarus”, colleagues and friends, businessmen and vendors wish him health, courage in his struggle for freedom and democracy in Belarus, and also a quick release. Read more »