Natalia Kochanova, Chairman of the Council of the Republic, said today: “Modern service and good conditions for patients and doctors are very important, because people, their well-being and health have always been and remain a priority area of state policy.”
Natalia Kochanova said on June 19 (about doctors' low salaries): “When you went to the medical university, you knew about the salaries.”
Natalia Kochanova said on June 19 (about doctors' low salaries): “When you went to the medical university, you knew about the salaries.”
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Detained retirees are being released one by one now.
Belarusians of St. Petersburg and Moscow have gathered for solidarity rallies to support their mates. St. Petersburg has been seeing such kind of rallies for 128 days in a row.
A Minsker was sentenced to 3 years of house arrest for insulting Karaev (former Interior Minister) in comments to a YouTube video. During the court hearing the comment itself wasn’t mentioned, due to its obscene nature. General description of the commentary was “Karaev will get scared, before he’s able to tell the President that he will implement the Constitution”.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya urged the European Union to step up its support for embattled democracy protesters in her country, as she picked up the EU’s top human rights prize Wednesday on behalf of a group of opposition leaders.
“Without a free Belarus, Europe is not fully free either. We ask Europe and the whole world to stand with Belarus,” Tsikhanouskaya told lawmakers in Brussels as she collected the Sakharov Prize on behalf of the Belarus opposition.
Holding aloft photographs of Belarusians who have rallied against authoritarian Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko, protesters who often been detained and beaten by security forces, she dedicated the award to them. At the same time, Tsikhanouskaya appealed to the 27-nation bloc to be braver in its actions.
“Standing for democracy and human rights is not interference, but it is duty of each self-respecting country,” she told EU lawmakers, speaking in English. “Your solidarity and your voice are important, but it is actions that matter.”
“Without a free Belarus, Europe is not fully free either. We ask Europe and the whole world to stand with Belarus,” Tsikhanouskaya told lawmakers in Brussels as she collected the Sakharov Prize on behalf of the Belarus opposition.
Holding aloft photographs of Belarusians who have rallied against authoritarian Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko, protesters who often been detained and beaten by security forces, she dedicated the award to them. At the same time, Tsikhanouskaya appealed to the 27-nation bloc to be braver in its actions.
“Standing for democracy and human rights is not interference, but it is duty of each self-respecting country,” she told EU lawmakers, speaking in English. “Your solidarity and your voice are important, but it is actions that matter.”
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US resident Velida Kent from Washington created a gingerbread house dedicated to the events in Belarus.
Video: Nicolai Khalezin, Facebook
Video: Nicolai Khalezin, Facebook
“But, away from the main stage, a smaller, subtler game of cat-and-mouse is underway.”
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How the crisis in Belarus is politicising a new wave of street artists
They engage in a cat-and-mouse game with authorities who paint over their work often just hours after it's been created.
Yesterday, In Berlin the creative project “Embassy of the Free Democratic Republic of Belarus” (hosted in Germany) invited everyone to visit. One could become a “citizen of the Free democratic Republic of Belarus” and get a “pashpart,” as well as sign and send postcards to political prisoners.