Press Review

Professor Yury Khadyka is convinced: the situation that has developed around the former presidential candidates is not coincidental.

“Amnesty International” has denounced the sentences passed on 14 and 16 May on those accused in a criminal case about the events of 19 December in Minsk.

The European Parliament has called on the EU to impose sanctions against the Belarusian authorities, and has also demanded of Minsk that it stop the persecution of its presidential candidates.

Viktor Kalesnik, Evgenii Parchinskii and Ilya Bogdanov, activists of “European Belarus”, met in Novopolotsk near a newspaper kiosk in Molodejnaya Street and were detained.

However, the judge refused to grant an application that the presidential candidate should receive medical care.

Leonid Zaiko, the director of the analytical centre “Strategy”, has explained in an interview with “Deutsche Welle” what threat is posed to the ruble deposits of the population by the currency crisis in Belarus, and he gave advice on where it is best to invest their savings.

In the city of Svetlagorsk, activists of the civil campaign “European Belarus” carried out an act of solidarity with political prisoners.

Vladimir Kobets, the head of the election team of Andrei Sannikov, has described the sentence of the coordinator of “European Belarus” as absurd.

“Russia does not put forward any conditions concerning Ukraine’s membership in the Customs Union,” the head of the Ukrainian Department for Foreign Affairs, Konstantin Grishchenko, has declared.

The head of Belarus twice mentioned the capital of Belarus in a negative light. “Euroradio” listened to the address along with the ex-member of the House of Representatives, Olga Abramova.