Yesterday the title of the “US Department of State’s Annual Country Report On Human Rights Practices” was mixed up for technical reasons. We apologize for that and remind that the text of the report you can read at the following link:

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Belarusian Foreign Ministry estimated critically the US Department of State’s annual report on human rights in its part on Belarus.

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On February 26 Anatol Shumchanka, one of the leaders of the entrepreneurs’ movement, chairperson of “Perspektiva” association of small traders, was summoned to the Internal Affairs department of the Pershamajsky District of Minsk for confidential conversation with deputy head of the department, the Narpodnaya Volya informs.

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In his interview to Radio Svaboda Pyotar Martsaw, founder and publisher of the “Beorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta”, discourses upon the theme why constitutional right of Belarusian citizens for information is violated constantly, and who is accountable for independent press crackdown.

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Dednovo, a Belarusian brewery, and Detroit-Belarus Brewing Company LLC of the United States, have set up a joint company called the Belarusian Brewing Company, the Mogilevoblimuschestvo fund told Interfax.

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Russia and Belarus will sign a number of documents in the near future aimed at settling a dispute between the countries around Transnefteprodukt, acting Russian Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko told journalists in Almaty, Kazakhstan. According to him, this concerns documents regarding joint property ownership and creating conditions for further cooperation in the sphere of oil product transportation.

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