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Homyel
01 января 2012
- 15:49 Activist of anti-Lukashenka online community sentenced to five days in jail // English // Новости
Dzmitry Shawchenka, activist of an online community called Revolution Through Social Networks resident in Homyel, was sentenced to five days in jail on Friday. The young man was arrested by police at...
20 сентября 2011
- 16:44 First-ever Belarusian Festival of Amateur Circus Art in Homyel // English // Медиа-фото
The first-ever Belarusian Festival of Amateur Circus Art took place in Homyel on September 17. The festival was held in the square in front of Homyel's State Circus. The event featured amateur...
- 15:33 Opposition activist in Homyel told by police to stay at home during \"silent protest\" on Wednesday // English // Новости
A young opposition activist in Homyel has been ordered by police to be at home on the evening of September 21, when a “silent protest” is scheduled to take place in the city. A...
18 августа 2011
- 12:36 Several people arrested during «silent» protest in Homyel // English // Новости
Several pro-democratic supporters were arrested in Homyel as they gathered at the city center on Wednesday evening to stage a “silent” protest. Earlier this month, the organizers of the...
10 августа 2011
- 14:19 Homyel Regional Court overturns conviction of human rights defender over «silent» protest // English // Новости
A judge of the Homyel Regional Court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of human rights defender Anatol Paplawny over a "silent" anti-government protest and sent the case for a...
14 июля 2011
- 16:33 At least five drug dealing cases under review in Homyel over fabricated evidence // English // Новости
District courts in Homyel are reviewing at least five drug dealing cases that are believed to have been fabricated by police investigators. As Iryna Baluyeva, the mother of a man convicted in one...
07 июля 2011
- 15:22 Woman in Homyel complains to prosecutor over arrest during «silent» protest // English // Новости
A resident of Homyel has complained to the Tsentralny district prosecutor about her arrest during a "silent" protest in the city in southeastern Belarus on July 3. In an interview with...
30 июня 2011
- 17:53 Doctor arrested during «silent» protest in Homyel sentenced to seven days in jail // English // Новости
A district judge in Homyel on June 30 imposed a seven-day jail sentence on Yawhen Lapanaw, a resuscitation specialist at the Dobrush District Hospital who had been arrested the previous evening in...
28 июня 2011
- 12:45 Man in Homyel fined after inviting friends on social networking site to meet at city center // English // Новости
A man in Homyel was sentenced Monday to a fine of 105,000 rubels on a charge of inviting his friends to meet in the city via the Vkontakte social networking site. The judge of the Savetski District...
11 апреля 2011
- 15:11 French ambassador visiting Homyel // English // Новости
Michel Rainieri, the French ambassador to Belarus, arrived in Homyel on April 10 on a two-day visit. On Sunday, the diplomat attended a service at a Roman Catholic church and met with priest...
27 марта 2011
- 16:13 KGB questions opposition activist in Homyel over post-election protest // English // Новости
Yury Klimovich, a Homyel-based activist who was a campaign aide to presidential candidate Vital Rymashewski, on Friday was questioned at the KGB Homyel regional department as a “witness”...
06 февраля 2011
- 15:43 KGB officers search home of opposition activist in Homyel // English // Новости
KGB officers in Homyel on February 5 searched the home of Uladzimir Syakerka, chairman of the Homyel regional organization of the “Spravedlivy Mir” (Just World) Belarusian Party of the...
05 февраля 2011
- 16:17 Police question opposition activist in Homyel over December 19 post-election protest // English // Новости
Yawhen Yakavenka, an opposition activist in Homyel, was questioned Friday at the regional police department in connection with the December 19 post-election protest in Minsk. "I was asked how...
15 января 2011
- 14:28 KGB raids Movement for Freedom\'s office in Homyel // English // Новости
KGB officers on January 14 seized computers and memory devices in a raid on the office of the Homyel regional organization of the Movement for Freedom. The raid was conducted in connection with a...
09 января 2011
- 16:51 KGB interviews two Homyel activists of Belarusian Christian Democracy // English // Новости
Two activists of the unregistered Belarusian Christian Democracy party were questioned by officers of the Committee for State Security (KGB) in Homyel on January 8, BelaPAN said. Kanstantsin...
28 сентября 2010
- 13:12 Police confirm that jailed opposition activist Kanstantsin Zhukowski has been on hunger strike since Friday // English // Новости
Police have confirmed that Homyel opposition activist Kanstantsin Zhukowski has been on hunger strike since being jailed on Friday, BelaPAN reports. According to an officer at the Petrykaw district...
- 12:55 Belarusian Steel Works to invest EUR17 million in environmentally friendly technologies // English // Статьи
The BMZ has recently signed a EUR5-million contract with Finland’s Water Group that will modernize its dust removal and gas cleaning systems...
27 сентября 2010
- 17:30 Seventeen people left in presidential race // English // Медиа-видео
The central election commission has granted registration to the nomination groups of 17 people who may now get registered as candidates in Belarus’ forthcoming presidential election if their groups...
- 15:58 Seventeen people left in presidential race // English // Статьи
A total of 19 people filed applications with the central election commission for the registration of their nomination groups...
22 сентября 2010
- 11:58 Italian company agrees to invest in rolling mill construction in Homyel region // English // Новости
An Italian company has agreed to form a joint venture with the Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ) for the construction of a rolling mill in Zhlobin, Homyel region, Anatol Savyanok, CEO of the Belarusian...
20 сентября 2010
- 17:56 Opposition youth in Homyel sentenced to $580 fine over City Day incident // English // Новости
Ivan Zaytsaw, an activist of an opposition youth group called Maladaya Belarus, was sentenced on Monday to a fine of 1,750,000 rubels ($580) over an incident in Homyel earlier this month. A judge of...
- 17:55 Central election commission registers Tsyareshchanka’s nomination group // English // Статьи
Under regulations, a presidential hopeful’s nomination group must collect at least 100,000 voter signatures to run in the election...
- 14:55 Opposition activist in Homyel region hospitalized with head injury after arrest // English // Новости
Kanstantsin Zhukowski, a coordinator of the Belarusian Christian Democracy (BCD) party, was taken to the surgery unit of the Petrykaw District Hospital with a head injury after an arrest in the Homyel...
17 сентября 2010
- 15:59 Japan to donate over $100,000 to Homyel Regional Children\'s Hospital // English // Новости
The Japanese government will donate $106,300 to the Homyel Regional Children's Hospital for buying medical equipment, a spokesperson for the Asian country's embassy in Minsk told BelaPAN. The...
07 сентября 2010
- 11:20 Belarusian Written Language Festival in Khoyniki, Homyel region // English // Медиа-видео
The 2010 Belarusian Written Language Festival took place in Khoyniki, a city of some 13,000 in a Chernobyl-affected area in the Homyel region, on September 5, BelaPAN reports. A 19th-century estate...
06 сентября 2010
- 16:47 City in Homyel region hosts 2010 Belarusian Written Language Festival // English // Медиа-видео
The 2010 Belarusian Written Language Festival took place in Khoyniki, a city of some 13,000 in a Chernobyl-affected area in the Homyel region, on September 5, BelaPAN reports. The opening speech was...
- 16:44 Milinkevich may withdraw his presidential bid // English // Статьи
"Running for president is a very responsible step," said the 63-year-old Milinkevich. "I must take it if my participation helps protect the independence of Belarus...
02 сентября 2010
- 09:57 Campaign headquarters for Belarusian Christian Democracy\'s presidential nominee said to have been established in 32 cities // English // Новости
Campaign headquarters have reportedly been established in 32 Belarusian cities for Vital Rymashewski, co-chairman of Belarusian Christian Democracy (BCD) who plans to run in the forthcoming...
30 августа 2010
- 16:30 Thirty-four power generation facilities to be built with Chinese loans // English // Новости
The Council of Ministers has approved a 34-item list of power generation facilities that are expected to be built in Belarus with the help of Chinese loans, BelaPAN reports. The facilities include a...
- 16:27 Lukashenka turns 56 // English // Статьи
Mr. Lukashenka was born in the village of Kopys, Vitsyebsk region, on August 30, 1954. He graduated from the history department of the Mahilyow...
- 12:01 Tanker laden with Venezuelan oil for Belarus arrives at Lithuanian seaport // English // Новости
A tanker laden with Venezuelan crude oil for Belarus arrived at Klaipeda early on Sunday, Gediminas Vitkauskas, a senior officer of Klaipedos Nafta, which runs the Lithuanian port's oil terminal, told...
26 августа 2010
- 12:09 EU companies said to be interested in developing four mineral deposits in Belarus // English // Новости
Talks are underway with investors in the European Union that could develop four mineral deposits in Belarus as concessionaries, Anatol Lis, deputy minister of natural resources, told reporters in...
23 августа 2010
- 18:14 Visiting German MP meets with Belarusian lawmakers // English // Новости
German MP Klaus Hagemann met with Belarusian lawmakers in Minsk on August 23, BelaPAN reports. The Bundestag member said that he was staying in Belarus on a private visit but stressed that both...
19 августа 2010
- 12:36 Opposition activist charged over distribution of greeting cards on occasion of 20th anniversary of State Sovereignty Declaration // English // Новости
Vasil Palyakow, an opposition activist resident in Homyel, has been charged under the Administrative Offenses Code over the distribution of greeting cards on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of...
17 августа 2010
- 10:53 Grain harvest said to have been gathered from nearly 96 percent of sown area // English // Новости
Grain and leguminous crops had been harvested from 2,225,500 hectares, or 95.5 percent of the total sown area, as of Monday morning, according to the agriculture ministry, as quoted by BelaPAN. Grain...
16 августа 2010
- 11:17 Enough grain will be harvested this year for domestic needs and export // English // Новости
Enough grain will be harvested this year for domestic needs of the country and for export, Prime Minister Syarhey Sidorski told reporters on August 13 while staying in Kalinkavichy, Homyel region, as...
12 августа 2010
- 16:38 Carton containing 65 cocoons of tropical butterflies found on train at Ukrainian border // English // Медиа-фото
A carton containing 65 live cocoons of rare tropical butterflies was found on a passenger train during a routine customs inspection at the Ukrainian border in the Homyel region on August 9....
10 августа 2010
- 10:43 Firefighters on guard in Homyel region // English // Медиа-фото
Firefighters in the Homyel region have launched daily raids on forests amid temporary restrictions on visits to wild areas, BelaPAN reports. All forests are closed to the public in the Homyel and...
09 августа 2010
- 16:48 Homyel’s Sunday temperatures beat all-time Belarusian record // English // Новости
Daily temperatures soared to 38.9 degrees Celsius in Homyel on Sunday, beating the all-time Belarusian record of 37.9 degrees, BelaPAN reports. The previous record was also set in Homyel, in 1936....
- 12:12 Faithful reconstructing Roman Catholic church in Rahachow // English // Медиа-фото
Restoration work is carried out at a ruined Roman Catholic church in Rahachow, Homyel region, ahead of the church’s 100th consecration anniversary to be observed in August 2012, BelaPAN reports....
03 августа 2010
- 11:30 Campaign headquarters established in Homyel for Belarusian Christian Democracy\'s presidential hopeful // English // Новости
About 20 opposition activists in Homyel have established a local campaign headquarters of Vital Rymashewski, co-chairman of Belarusian Christian Democracy (BCD) who plans to run in the forthcoming...
29 июля 2010
- 18:08 Disciplinary penalties imposed on many police officers over shooting incident // English // Статьи
The Rahachow district officer fired his pistol while in a police car, wounding the resident of the nearby village of Zhuravichy. The woman died from a non-penetrating head wound...
27 июля 2010
- 12:24 Civil society activists in Homyel discuss promotion of Belarusian lanugage // English // Новости
Civil society activists in Homyel held a “roundtable” discussion on July 25 to discuss efforts to promote the Belarusian language, BelaPAN reports. Organized by the youth organization...
21 июля 2010
- 17:40 High temperatures expected to continue until end of this week // English // Медиа-видео
High temperatures across Belarus are expected to continue until the end of this week, Volha Fyadotava, chief forecaster at the National Hydrometeorology Center, told reporters on Wednesday, as quoted...
- 12:21 Belarus, Ukraine to exchange ratification instruments for border treaty // English // Статьи
"We have absolutely no problems," Mr. Lukashenka said. "We’ve reached and agreement on all problems and talk about joint projects...
09 июля 2010
- 18:27 New issue of private weekly Nasha Niva prevented from sale through Belsayuzdruk network // English // Новости
Belsayuzdruk, a state monopolist that runs a network of newsstands and stores across Belarus, has not released for distribution a new issue of the Belarusian-language private weekly Nasha Niva,...
08 июля 2010
- 16:55 Belarusian-Ukrainian agreement on oil transit to be signed this week // English // Статьи
Ukraine has sufficient technical capacity for accepting crude in the country’s Black Sea ports, transshipping it and delivering it to Belarus by rail and pipeline...
01 июля 2010
- 16:25 Tennis star Maria Sharapova gives master class to children in Homyel // English // Медиа-фото
Tennis star Maria Sharapova gave a tennis master class to children in Homyel on July 1, BelaPAN reports. On the same day the 23-year-old Russian met the recipients of her foundation's scholarships,...
25 июня 2010
- 16:45 Tennis star Maria Sharapova to visit Homyel region // English // Статьи
The athlete, 23, will head for Belarus from the Wimbledon tournament to meet with young people affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
09 июня 2010
- 09:56 Horse rescued after falling down well in Homyel region // English // Медиа-фото
A horse had to be rescued after falling down a well near a house under construction in Dobrush, Homyel region, on June 7. Rescuers managed to lift the horse out of the 2.5-meter-deep well with the...
