5 years in a juvenile colony
The environment of good deeds. Nikolay Shemetov
323 political prisoners in Belarus
The nationwide voting announced by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya continues on the "Golos" platform.
103 years ago, on this day in Minsk, in the building of the city theater (now the Yanka Kupala theater), the Belarusian People's Republic was announced. It did not last long, but it became a loud statement of our people about their place on the map of Europe.
Today Belarusians all over the world are celebrating Freedom Day. We believe that this year our country will become free. Belarusians deserve it like no one else.
The "Country for Life" Foundation is at the forefront of the fight against the Lukashenko regime. Our goal is to build a real country for life, a state governed by the rule of law, where laws are equal for everyone, without exception, and are not interpreted in favor of one person or clan. You can do your part to defeat the dictator.
2 months of the "Self-government" project have passed. It's time to take stock of the first results.
Legal default has come in Belarus. The courts have not been truly independent of the president before, but after the events of the summer and autumn of last year, they completely lost even the illusion of objectivity. Another consequence of the legal default is the large number of people convicted on political charges. The courts are now churning out sentences in batches - people are sent to prisons for long terms on the most absurd reasons.
For three months (from December 5, 2020, to March 5, 2021), a shelter for refugees from Belarus worked in Vilnius with the "Country for Life" Foundation support. Let's sum up the results of his work.
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The court of the Moskovsky district of Brest began to consider the "Pinsk case". 14 people are being tried for participation in the riots, all of them are recognized as political prisoners.
A rally in support of Sergei Tikhanovsky and other political prisoners took place in Vilnius.
March 22 marks the 157th anniversary of the death of Kastus Kalinovsky. In modern Belarus, he has become a figure of silence even in comparison with Soviet times. For the Lukashenka regime, Kalinouski is too inconvenient - he fought against the Russian autocracy for the independence of his native land. Therefore, it is easier to declare him a Pole, as is actually happening in recent years (read the court historian, another graduate of the Mogilev Pedagogical Institute, Igor Marzalyuk).
Appeal to the people of Lithuania. If you are a taxpayer in Lithuania and have the opportunity to choose exactly where to send 1.2% of your taxes: perhaps you have already made a decision where this money will go, or <br />
you may still be thinking, or maybe you just did not know and did not think about it.
This week we started publishing a series of articles to compare different aspects of life in Belarus and neighboring countries. They are prepared by Alisa Ryzhychenko, an employee of the "Country for Life" Foundation, an expert in public administration and international development, Master of Economics. Today we will tell you more about the author.