Alexander Lukashenko compared the profitability of flax growing with profitability from the extraction and sale of oil and instructed to manage in the flax industry "Stalinist methods". The head of Belarus visited on August 19 the Republican Production Unitary Enterprise "Ustye" of the National Academy of Sciences in the Vorša district.

"Your actions are correctly qualified in accordance with Part 1 of Art. 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses ... There are no grounds for repealing or changing the regulations, "the chairman of the regional court Nikolai Hamichenok said after reviewing the supervisory complaint of human rights activist Leonid Svetik, who was punished by 15 days of administrative arrest for taking part in events that took place in Viciebsk 25 and 26 March.

"Vitebsk Spring" continues to acquaint readers with the conditions of stay in temporary detention facilities. Journalist Artem Sizintsev covered spring protests and trials of their participants not only in his native Vorša, but also in Mahiloŭ and Viciebsk. Law enforcement officials evaluated the activity of the reporter – he was detained on March 25 for Freedom Day in Viciebsk. The court appointed Artem to 10 days of arrest.

According to the resolution of the employee of the Investigative Committee KS. Kazimirskaya, a criminal case against Dr. Igor Postnov was instituted on the basis of the elements of the offense provided for in Part 1 of Article 400 of the Criminal Code (a knowingly false denunciation of a crime).

In continuation of the topic of temporary detention isolators of the Vitebsk region, we quote the story of the co-chairman of the newly created BCD party, Pavel Sevyarynets. Pavel, as a former political prisoner, is well acquainted with the penitentiary system of Belarus. This year he was punished with 15 days of arrest after the "March of the non-parasites" in Vorša, which was held on March 12.