Orsha executive committee banned the 6 September, the field Krapivenskaya festival and concert. This is stated in the official response of the Orsha district executive committee, which received deputy chairman of the organizing committee for the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Orsha artist Mikola Kupava. By Kupava refusal is based on allegedly improperly executed application, because they were not the sources of financing activities also included providing "first aid".

Mr. Kupava commented as follows: "If we have sent a request, much hope for a positive response and was not. But if the authorities want to do Orsha us human and humanly treated Belarusian history, they would have written us what else you need to do to get permission. However, they decided otherwise: after our appeal to them was almost a month, they were silent, and for 5 days before the event, sent a letter to the ban."

According to the decision of the organizing committee, in ceremonies in Krapiuna field where 8 September 1514 a battle took place, ready to attend a few hundred people, including invited representatives of foreign embassies. September 6, scheduled services, a tour of Orsha and ride Krapivinskaya field. At the spot where the troops of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 500 years ago, has won three times as many troops of the Moscow principality, will lay flowers at the memorial sign, the establishment of democratic activists and an official part of the concert. According to the application in Orsha district executive committee, all these activities have to be over 19 hours.

Organizing Committee intends to consider other possibilities mark the anniversary of the victory of the Belarusian army led by the great hetman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Constantine Ostrog over the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow on the River Krapivna near Orsha.

The famous Battle of Orsha took place September 8, 1514. Nearly 20 years in those places are going to wish to mention this significant historical event.

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