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Nyaklyayew`s associate expelled from university in Minsk

Uladzimir Kumets, leader of presidential contender Uladzimir Nyaklyayew’s team for Minsk’s Leninski district, has been expelled from Minsk-based International Humanities and Economics Institute where he was completing the fifth year program in International Relations for part-time students, BelaPAN said.

Mr. Kumets denounced his expulsion as politically motivated and threatened to go to court.

In an interview with BelaPAN, Mr. Kumets said that he passed all end-of-semester examinations that were held between September 6 and October 13.

But when the youth appeared at the university on November 8 he was shown the exam record featuring an unsatisfactory mark that he allegedly received for the English language exam. He was also shown a paper indicating that he failed to receive credit for the business correspondence course prior to the exams.

Ten minutes later, Mr. Kumets was told that he had been expelled from the institution.

“Maksim Prokharaw, a professor at the Foreign Language Department, phoned me on November 7 to say that my professor, Viktar Asipovich, was ordered to show up at the university on November 6," Mr. Kumets said. "The administration told him that he would be dismissed unless he awarded me an unsatisfactory mark, three, instead of nine for the exam. Mr. Asipovich had to sign the exam record.”

After being told that he had been expelled, the youth went to the personnel office to ask it to show him the expulsion order. “I was given the order only two hours later and it was evident that it had been just issued,” the young man said.

The order dated November 3, although a university official earlier said that it was issued on November 1, he said.

“It is obvious why I was kicked out,” Mr. Kumets said. “There are no other explanations. I was expelled for my active involvement in Nyaklyayew’s presidential campaign.”

The youth suggested that his campaign for nominating Mr. Nyaklyayew as a delegate to the government Fourth All-Belarusian People’s Assembly was “the last straw.”

He said that he also considered asking law enforcers to investigate “the document fraud.”