On the eve of another anniversary of the man-made disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, our correspondent met with retired lieutenant-colonel Vadim Nikolayevich Kuzmin, who, together with the personnel of the military unit, carried out the decontamination of the contaminated area in the 30-kilometer zone.

The regional prosecutor's office organizes a check on the activities of Połacak police officers who searched the office of the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Połacak-Steklovolokno plant. The corresponding instruction was sent to Viciebsk by Alexey Kavzunovich, Deputy Head of Supervision of the Investigatory Agencies of the Prosecutor General's Office.

The trial of a member of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee took place in the already familiar place for consideration of cases of mass events in the court of Oktyabrsky district of the city of Viciebsk. Judge Inna Grabovskaya considered the participation of human rights defenders in unauthorized actions held on March 25 and 26 as proven, and decided to subject him to a penalty in the form of administrative arrest.

The incident occurred on March 27 in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Viciebsk, where Judge Inna Grabovskaya was to examine the case of journalist Kastus Mardzvincau, who was detained – the day before. Before the beginning of the process, she stated that she wanted to hold a meeting in her office, and therefore would not allow anyone to consider it.

The Połacak regional executive committee banned holding a rally on the city square on March 26 at 12 o'clock. The application for the event was filed by a resident of the city Eugene Parchinsky. About refusal to satisfy an application officials of regional executive committee have informed Evgenie directly in a hall of executive committee during consideration of this application. The written prohibition was issued to Parchinsky signed by the deputy chairman of the district executive committee.