In Viciebsk, entrepreneurs turned to the management of the Evikom shopping center with a letter, which was signed by 190 people. Small business asks to meet and sort out the situation to prevent the destruction of their jobs.
The round table was organized by the movement “For Freedom” and the Leu Sapega Foundation. Social activists discussed the effectiveness and fairness of those public hearings that are regularly held in the country.
By February 1, lists of able-bodied citizens who do not participate in financing state expenditures will be compiled, which, in accordance with Decree No. 3, will pay for housing and utility services at the full rate.
According to official data, in the Viciebsk region 3525 children are in a socially dangerous position. Of these, only five are recognized as such due to ill-treatment. The prosecutor's office believes that official statistics do not reflect the real situation.
Three residents of the Viciebsk region and their accomplice from Tajikistan, who organized the channel of illegal migration to the European Union, were sentenced to three years in prison with confiscation of property.
In Lepiel, Baptist believers, spouses Andrei and Tatiana Fokins, were detained for singing and spreading Christian literature near the local market. “We were detained as criminals and taken to the police station,” Andrei Fokin told Forum 18.
The 36-year-old resident of the urban village of Vietryna will be tried for a false danger report under section 340 of the Criminal Code. In addition, he is charged with insulting the president (article 368 of the Criminal Code).
The South Korean pentavalent vaccine “Eupenta”, around which a scandal erupted in August with the death of a child, continues to be used in Belarusian clinics. The announcement of this was noticed in the Viciebsk children's polyclinic №2.
The story surfaced after checking one of the agricultural enterprises of the district. “Employees of the financial police found out that the first deputy chairman of the Ušačy district executive committee ordered to steal the bull from the farm. He purchased the vaccine to put the animal to sleep, handed it over to officials of the farm, developed a plan to remove the bull from the farm and deliver it to a private peasant farm in Ušačy district, ”says the State Control Committee.
In 2017, 27 children died from external causes in the Viciebsk region, among them in the Viciebsk district — 3. The death of minors as a result of drowning is especially alarming, six such cases were committed in the region. Most of them occurred on artificial reservoirs.
The resident of Mahiloŭ, whose son is serving a sentence in colony No. 8 in Vorša, applied to the editorial office of belsat.eu, where, according to the woman, psychological and physical pressure is exerted on him.
Residents of Vorša and a Russian citizen were detained on the night of 9 September, when four Vietnamese were driven towards the Lithuanian border.
On September 8, in honor of the 504th anniversary of the battle of Vorša, local activists laid flowers to memorable signs. As in all recent years, the event was arranged exclusively by volunteers: local authorities ignore the historical site where in 1514 the army of the GDL broke a much larger Moscow.
On August 8, the Rasony District Court recognized the 56-year-old director of the communal unitary agricultural enterprise "Krasnapolle", Sergei Karpenko, who ran the 24-year-old farm guilty of taking bribes by extortion.
Participants of the public initiative "Kabylaki. They were shot in Vorša and visited the reception of the chairman of the district executive committee, Alexander Poznyak, to agree on the contents of the memorial plate promised by the authorities on the site of Stalin's executions.
In the robbery and brutal murder associated with robbery, an unemployed 34-year-old Turkish citizen is accused, who, according to the investigation, strangled a girl from Bangladesh in Viciebsk. The Investigative Committee completed the investigation. The materials of the criminal case were transferred to the prosecutor for referral to the court. The sanction of the article of the criminal code, on which the charge is charged, provides for an exceptional measure of punishment in the form of the death penalty.
Independent journalists from Hłybokaje again were punished with fines for "illegal production of media products". Dmitry Lupach was fined 857 rubles 50 kopecks for cooperation with Belsat, Tatyana Smotkina for 1102 rubles 50 kopecks – from Radio Racyja.
The only officially recognized place of mass executions in the 1930s near Vorša is the tract Kabylackaja Hara. But relatives of the repressed argue that they know other places of death of innocent citizens arrested and thrown in jails. In these places, relatives are offered to put memorable signs. They write about this in letters to the regional executive committee.
Eight Viciebsk citizens gathered for the day of the Constitution in private territory to talk about life and space and drink tea. But after a while they were detained by militiamen, taken to the Oktyabrsky District Department of Internal Affairs and charged with violating the legislation on mass events (Article 23.34 of the Administrative Code of the Republic of Belarus). Administrative case was considered on April 19 by the court of Viciebsk region.
The organizers of the event explained the reason for the refusal by the lack of money they demanded by policemen for law enforcement services during the rally.
On March 12, near the Belarusian embassy in London, a picket was held in support of British citizen Alan Smith, who is serving time in correctional colony No. 3 near Viciebsk on charges of organizing illegal migration.
In the Viciebsk regional court on January 25, the second hearing of the criminal case of Olga Stepanova, previously convicted for the death of the child at home birth, was completed. The case was considered in closed mode. The judge of the regional court Galina Bondal announced a verdict in which Olga Stepanova was found not guilty in connection with the absence of a crime.
Human rights activist Pavel Levinov received information that the Viciebsk regional court on September 22, 2017 was sentenced to death. It came into force on October 6, 2017. This verdict was not appealed or protested. The convicted person in the Viciebsk case is placed in the Detention Unit No. 1 in Minsk.
A meeting with media expert Pavlyuk Bykovskiy was organized by the Hłybokaje Department of the Belarusian Association of Journalists. Participation in it was received by journalists and public activists from Hłybokaje, Lepiel, Połacak and Brasłaŭ.