After the world media ignored the appearance of radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 in the air of many countries in Europe, Viciebsk human rights activist Leonid Svetik addressed a number of government departments to find out what measures these departments took to minimize the consequences of radiation contamination of the area.
In the State Control Committee of the Viciebsk region, the results of the inspection of OJSC Połacak-Torg, which serves 15 educational institutions in Połacak, almost 8,500 people, were announced.
Infringements of the legislation on struggle against corruption in committee on architecture and building of the Viciebsk regional executive committee and in the enterprises subordinated to it have revealed the check spent by regional Office of Public Prosecutor.
On December 7, Ekaterina Voinova, the head of the Housing and Communal Services Department of the Viciebsk district, drafted a protocol on administrative violation by citizen Jan Derzhavtsev. According to the protocol, the activist violated the rules of burial of human remains, so he buried in a place not intended for this. Now the trial awaits him.
On November 8, Andrei Sidyuk, 39, the administrator of the housing and communal service "Połacak Housing and Utilities", who is also a deputy of the Połacak District Council, terminated the contract for damaging circumstances.
The request to the UCP activists in Miory received a refusal, the picket "Stop hazing in the army and the country!" Was not allowed by the authorities. They explained this by the absence of contracts with the police, doctors and housing and communal services.
Judge Hłybokaje District Court Andrei Tarasevich was awarded 35 basic units by the independent journalist from Hłybokaje Dmitry Lupach. Dmitry was tried in the new building of Hłybokaje Court, which was opened several days ago.
On November 3, the judicial board of the regional court quashed the verdict of the Railway District Court of the city of Viciebsk on September 7 against a resident of St. Petersburg, Olga Stepanova, who lost her child during childbirth at home.
While the authorities of the Viciebsk region refuse to recognize the Hai area as the place of mass executions of the 1930s, public activists honor the memory of the Stalinist regime killed by the henchmen. Currently, 33 crosses of memory are installed in the forest.
Workers of the Połacak Plant "Steklovolokno" on October 10 at the conference decided to hold a strike. The workers' conference was organized by the Free Trade Union of Belarus (SPB). Workers demand equal treatment of plant workers, regardless of participation in the union.
With the rapid development of the Internet and computer technologies, issues related to information security, the right of people to privacy and the legal norms that regulate this sphere are becoming more urgent. The training "Likbez on Digital Freedoms", which was held in Viciebsk, was dedicated to these problems.
The 31-year-old Olga Stepanova was found guilty of causing death by negligence. On the basis of Part 1 of Article 144 of the Criminal Code, she was sentenced to imprisonment for 6 months with serving a sentence in a penal colony in a settlement. For the time provided for appealing the sentence, the measure of restraint for her was changed to a written undertaking not to leave the place (4 months before the trial, Olga Stepanova was in the SIZO).
Residents of houses No. 7, Building 1 and Building 2, along Chkalov Street, met with officials in the Viciebsk Oblast Executive Committee to once again voice their claims to them and to learn how the authorities are going to solve the problem of the dog-walking area. The meeting was held on September 20.
The hero of our next material about the conditions of detention in temporary detention facilities of the Viciebsk region was the activist of the Belarusian Popular Front party from Haradok Leonid Autukhov. The oppositionist took an active part in celebrating Freedom Day in the regional center on March 25, for which he was punished with 15 days of administrative arrest under article 23.34 of the Administrative Code (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding a mass event).
During the month, the guard of the Sianno flax factory Oleg Lisovskiy was fired twice from the enterprise. Without a final calculation. In his work record was recorded on the dismissal "by agreement of the parties", although he did not give any consent. And only through the court, the statement of claim in which the union helped to form, managed to achieve justice.
Judge Yury Urban began to announce the verdict against Olga Stepanova on September 7 at 14:20 in the Railway District Court of Viciebsk. The verdict of the judge is 6 months of restriction of freedom in the colony-settlement for causing death by negligence. The defendant was changed the measure of restraint to a written undertaking not to leave, and she was released from custody in the courtroom.
On September 4, the senior investigator of the third investigative department of the Viciebsk city department of the Investigative Committee K. Kazimirskaya summoned a psychiatrist Igor Postnov, on the phone, for questioning in the criminal case initiated under Part 1 of Article 400 of the Criminal Code – "a knowingly false report on the commission of a crime". From the investigator's office, a psychiatrist was forcibly sent to the "Navinki" to undergo a stationary psychiatric examination.
Young people who accused the Viciebsk OMON in the beating, received fines from 5 to 15 basic units. This decision was made on August 24 by the court of Pervomaisky district of the regional center. The trial for this administrative case, chaired by Judge Natalia Korablina, was taking place from August 8, writes Tut.by.
A group of pupils and teachers of the gymnasium of German Nienburg helps in the improvement of the territory of the former Viciebsk ghetto and other important places for the Jewish community, said the head of secondary school No. 21 Sergei Zybin.
Alesya Furs (Umpirovich) died at the 92nd year of life. While studying at Pastavy Teacher's Seminary, Alesya joined the Union of Belarusian Patriots. March 25, 1946 for the ceremony of swearing the members of the organization to fidelity to Belarus painted "Pahonia".
"Your actions are correctly qualified in accordance with Part 1 of Art. 23.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses ... There are no grounds for repealing or changing the regulations, "the chairman of the regional court Nikolai Hamichenok said after reviewing the supervisory complaint of human rights activist Leonid Svetik, who was punished by 15 days of administrative arrest for taking part in events that took place in Viciebsk 25 and 26 March.
Połacak began to delay the payment of pensions to bank cards. Thus, Priorbank delayed the payment of a pension for two days. Pensioners, who received a pension on the 7th, received only the 9th in August. Bank employees say that the Połacak Department of Labor, Employment and Social Protection did not provide lists for the payment of pensions.
"Vitebsk Spring" continues to acquaint readers with the conditions of stay in temporary detention facilities. Journalist Artem Sizintsev covered spring protests and trials of their participants not only in his native Vorša, but also in Mahiloŭ and Viciebsk. Law enforcement officials evaluated the activity of the reporter – he was detained on March 25 for Freedom Day in Viciebsk. The court appointed Artem to 10 days of arrest.