Belarus

Hockey: Andrievski rejects assistant coach job offer for Belarus national team

Dinamo Minsk manager Alexander Andievski has refused to become an assistant coach for Mikhail Zakharov who is the manager of Team Belarus. He announced his decision at the news conference after the match against the Russian...

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Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed? This week's NYR (Mortons Musings)

It is almost beyond belief that Canada is moving closer to the American prison/incarceration system. Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed?By David Cole Full story here:http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23382With approximately 2.3...

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A Puzzle for Our Time

Critics of the EU’s mild policy on Uzbekistan say it’s the Karimov regime that’s running the show, not the West. But the move also must have dismayed critics of the EU’s relationship with Uzbekistan, who had hoped for something...

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Bulgaria Ruling GERB Ministers Clash over Alcohol Tax Hike

Bulgaria's Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, insists on a broader discussion regarding the 2010 increase of the alcohol tax. Naydenov said Friday that there is a need of both a public debate and a plenary hall one. The...

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Armenian Prime Minister To Participate In The Session Of The Heads Of The Governments Of The CIS...

ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SESSION OF THE HEADS OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE CIS MEMBER STATES ARMENPRESS NOVEMBER 19, 2009 YEREVAN YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 19, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan is...

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Leader of parliamentary delegation describes visit to Georgia as important for deciding whether...

Syarhey Maskevich, leader of a Belarusian parliamentary delegation that arrived in Georgia on November 17, described the visit as important for deciding whether or not to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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Draft Customs Code of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia is in line with international standards,...

The draft Customs Code of the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia is in line with standards of the European Union and the World Customs Organization, Alyaksandr Shpilewski, head of the Belarusian State Customs...

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Belarus MPs visit Georgia's borders with Abkhazia, S.Ossetia

TBILISI, November 19 - A delegation of Belarusian MPs visited on Thursday Georgia's borders with Abkhazia and South Ossetia and talked with displaced people. The delegation intended to study the situation on the ground in order...

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Shoeboxes filled with sweets

YOUNGSTERS have been busy collecting festive goodies for children less fortunate than themselves. Mendip Green First School pupils have been filling shoeboxes to put a smile on some faces this Christmas. They have been working...

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Bez Granits (No Borders): new anarchist newspaper for the Baltic region

On November 7, 2009 (Nestor Makhno's birthday anniversary) a new anarchist newspaper, Bez Granits ("without borders" / "no limits") published its debut issue - 12 black and red pages which were prepared by the collective which...

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