For the villagers and the villagers started to publish bulletin " Staŭroŭskaja hazeta". The initiator and editor of the publication was the village elder Igor Grishanov. It is planned that the bulletin will be issued 1 time per month.
The bodies of the prosecutor's office of Viciebsk region revealed violations of the law in the activities of the enterprises included in the state association "Viciebsk concern "Meat and dairy products"."
This is the fourth edition of the yearbook "Gray Book. Chronicle of Human Rights Violations in the Viciebsk region". In addition to the print edition, the authors have placed it on the Internet electronic version that can be downloaded by anyone.
At the end of August the administration of the Oktyabrsky district of Viciebsk district commissions were formed for the election of the President. At first glance, everything is done in accordance with the law. But that's no law stipulates that election commissions were formed on the production principle.
Human rights activist Valery Misnikov believes that everything that happened after the disappearance of his name from the list of members of the precinct commission №17 in Viciebsk can be regarded as a failure to act of the judiciary during the presidential election campaign. Prosecution officials deliberately withdrew from fulfilling their obligations under the state supervision of the electoral process.
September 21 Tatiana Karatkevich once again arrived in Viciebsk. She first visited propaganda picket exhibition in support of the Boulevard near the secondary school №46, in the district Bilev. Passers-by were few, and so the main meeting with voters was held in the auditorium of the school №31.
Viciebsk pensioner Tatyana Sushkevich could not find help from the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus in Viciebsk Rail constituency №19 Sergey Bohan. The the deputy did not stop the eviction of the pensioner from departmental hostels belonging to JSC "Viciebskoblavtotrans."
Activists of the public initiative "Chajsy" became aware of another probable place of mass executions of the repressed Belarusian citizens in the late thirties of the last century. As the main witness alleged killings in warm woods near the village Łužasna made 84-year-old resident of Viciebsk Gennady Sokolov (pictured).
Twenty years ago, Vera Stepanisheva was among the Viciebsk region of journalists who came to the founding congress of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, and thanks to the efforts which arose independent Belarusian journalism. Today, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of BAJ she kindly agreed to answer questions from Viciebsk spring.