Today Is Aleh Biabenin's Birthday

The founder of the website Charter97.org would have turned 50 years old.

Famous Belarusian journalist Aleh Biabenin was born on June 14, 1974. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of BSU.

He worked at the Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta, then was deputy Editor-in-Chief of the non-state newspaper Imya. In 1998 he founded the Charter’97 website.

He was killed on September 3, 2010, a few days before the start of the presidential election campaign in Belarus. His death was not investigated into.