At the extraordinary presidential elections held on May 25 in Ukraine, came to more than 3 thousand international observers. Among them were Belarusians. Beyond that, how the will of the Ukrainian people, watched a few dozen activists from Belarus. One of them was a human rights activist from Vitebsk Leonid Svetsik, who spoke to "Dialogue" about his impressions of his stay in Ukraine.
Several dozen residents of Vitebsk signed the collective letter to the Council of Ministers to contribute to a change in the Vitebsk City Council decision number 881 of 10.07.2009, which governs the rules to the authorities with applications for street protests. Viteblyane also requested that the Council of Ministers initiated a petition to the Constitutional Court to verify compliance with this document of the Constitution.
Two penitentiaries will be eliminated in Belarus, based on them will be established LTP. The decision is contained in the decree of the President of Belarus № 242 "On improvement of activity of the penitentiary system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs", signed on May 28, according to the presidential press service.
As of April 1, 2014 the population of Vitebsk region amounted to 1 million 201.0 thousand people. For three months the number of residents of Vitebsk decreased by 1100 people. In the first three months of this year, Vitebsk region continues to hold leadership deplorable: the region has the highest mortality rate and shows the lowest fertility rate in the country.
Gross average wage of Vitebsk region in the first spring month amounted to 5,035,622 per month and increased by 312,282 rubles. Previous two months salary workers area decreased in January - to 419,549 rubles in February - to 25,572 rubles. The March increase could not compensate for the decline of wages at the beginning of the year - December level of 5,168,461 ruble has not yet been reached.
"The probability for a single candidate is, it is high enough. Events in Ukraine aggression from Russia showed how serious that we could lose the country if we do not implement strong scenario" - co-chairman of the organizing committee of the party" Belarusian Christian Democracy", a former political prisoner Paval Sieviaryniec.
Political prisoner Andrei Gaidukov, according to human rights activists, April 6, was transferred from prison in Mogilev in the penal colony " Vitsba-3". May 8 is the deadline for its conclusion, and the reasons why such a hasty translation is difficult to explain.
Ministry of Statistics has published data on average earnings in each of the regions of Belarus in January 2014. The poorest area became Sharkovshchina. In January, workers here earn only $338. A little more in Mstislavl ($354) and Braslav ($359) districs.
In recent weeks, the monitoring service of the "Belarusian Association of Journalists" has recorded a number of different cases with the same handwriting.