Supporters of the campaign "Deputies - to account" of Vitebsk launched a campaign "against the high curbs Viteblyane». They decided to examine whether the rules of pedestrian crossings and sidewalks Vitebsk. According to these regulations, the height of the roadway curbs at the intersections with sidewalks and bike lanes should be from 2.5 to 4 centimeters.
They appealed to the administration of Alexander Lukashenko and the local city council with collective letters to present their claims. The answer has been received from the executive committee, but it is disappointing. In a letter signed by the chairman of the executive committee Baranski Basil Rusakov said only that the CHP building on local fuels program provides for the development of the energy system in Belarus, adopted in 2007, and that "the level of pollution of air emissions and wastewater meets standards."
According to the information spread in the media, at the next session the deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus will consider amendments to the Electoral and Administrative Codes of the Republic of Belarus. According to available information, will be banned campaigning for a boycott of the elections, and for the implementation of such a campaign would have administrative sanctions. In this regard, the Commission on the Law of the House of Representatives asked the chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Council BPF Leanid Autukhou.
Former defender of FC "Vitebsk" Alex Khaletskiy remembered the time spent at the club. And he told about cheating sports officials about the Vitebsk region, "Unpleasant surprise that deceived the whole team about the money. And there was indifference to the team from the local authorities. Such bureaucratic indifference to football I have not seen in a team, where he played. Cubic problems Vitebsk Sports that workers Executive Committee and Executive Committee are indifferent to game species. Instead, they hide behind the football with some medals for sports which are not interesting."
A Vitebsk resident Peter Ivanov sent a complaint against the officers of the government of the Republic of Belarus to the address of Mrs. Margarat Sekaggya, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. He asks to recognize that the officials acted against him as a human rights activist unacceptable manner contrary to the spirit and letter of the "Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to promote and protect universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms."
August 21 afternoon, judge Degtyareva in Vitebsk district court on the basis of the decision of the medical advisory board (WCC) and the consent of the Vitebsk city prosecutor's office in the presence of the deputy chief physician of the medical unit of Psychiatry ultrasound Vitebsk Regional Clinical Centre of Psychiatry and Addiction Ponomarev ruled forced psychiatric treatment Igor Postnov. The court session was held without the participation of the public, representatives of the prosecutor, the legal counsel, Mr. Postnov and his close relatives.
Department of Corrections of Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus has not given permission to visit independent journalist penitentiary system. An appropriate statement addressed to the department of the Vitebsk member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists Kastus Mardzvincau. "Guidance Department considers it inappropriate to your visit to the penal colonies of the correctional system Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus", - said the first deputy head of the applicant DIN SI Procenko.
In Vitebsk in Victory Square on August 15, law enforcement officials celebrated the 95th anniversary of the founding of Vitebsk provincial police. Residents of the regional center were able to see samples of police equipment and weapons of the past decades. Complete the picture of the police, mummers in the form of the Soviet era.
Christopher Zhelyapau, coordinator of the movement "For Freedom" in the Vitebsk region, received a response to a joint letter from the Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee A. Diulin. More than 40 local residents asked City Council to reverse the decision on how to conduct mass actions. The answer executive committee officials - negative.
Dr. Igor Postnov who worked with non-government media and repeatedly criticized local officials led by Governor Alexander Kosinets for running state of medicine in the region and corruption, forcibly confined in an enclosed space number 2 Vitebsk Regional Clinical Centre of Psychiatry and Addiction - namely in the institution he worked . To put a doctor in a madhouse, came to him at the workplace and provide a proper decision of the prosecutor.