The fact that it is impossible "to put on the white-red-white" and climb on the Christmas tree in Victory Square, as well as – that to welcome Santa Claus and Snow Maiden can only state symbols and attributes developed for this purpose the City Council, was written on the site of "People's News of Viciebsk" in an article about the organization of the celebrations near the city's main Christmas tree.
Department of ideological work, Culture and Youth Affairs of Viciebsk city executive committee called it "false information" that "discredits the local authorities to the residents and visitors of Viciebsk." He warned that this could be "the basis for the application of liability rules in accordance with the current legislation in the field of the media to the owner of an information resource".
According to the editor and founder of the site "PNV" Sergei Serebro, in his article "life hacking: How to meet the New Year under the main Christmas tree in Viciebsk and get to the police," retold information posted on the site management MIA Viciebsk Oblast Executive Committee.
Police warned citizens there that during the events approaches to the main city fur-tree equipped mobile checkpoints with metal detectors and police officers do not miss out on the celebration of the individual in a state of intoxication, with weapons or dummy, and pyrotechnics. One of the points of the rules that must be respected by citizens during the events citywide scale – a ban "use flags and pennants, emblems, symbols, posters and banners, with the exception of state symbols and paraphernalia designed for this purpose Viciebsk city executive committee".
This item appeared in a number of bans after January 7, 2010 a member of the Conservative Christian Party BPF Syarhei Kavalenka posted on the Viciebsk fur-tree urban white-red-white flag, climbed to the very top of it. For this act he was sentenced to 3 years probation, and then was given 2 years and 1 month imprisonment. The colony Kovalenko has repeatedly declared a hunger strike protest.
This was the case immediately remembered visitors « People's news Viciebsk", leaving relevant comments.
By the way, their dissatisfaction with the phrase from the article an unknown representative of the ideological department also expressed in the comments below the text. According to Sergei Serebro, it can be considered the official opinion as a comment has been sent to the email address of the ideological department of culture and youth affairs.
Mr. Serebro said the opponents, they do not consider whether the information for citizens on the police website is also misleading and whether it was "in the New Year's events in Viciebsk use of state symbols of the Republic of Belarus of the sample of 1991, for example – a white-red-white flag?"
Response from the ideological department has no.
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