Ivan Shulha, an independent Belarusian journalist and a member of the Belarusian Association of Journalists, was charged with minor hooliganism and sentenced to an administrative arrest for 10 days.

According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) police officers from Kletsk, Mahiliou Region, who detained independent journalists, have bee n reprimanded for a serious drawback in work.

Some of the bloodiest battles during World War took place in what is now independent Belarus, and under the fields and woods around Minsk you can find millions of weapons, medals, helmets and other memorabilia. This is not just a hobby for amateur archaeologists but big – and not quite legal - business. The story ‘Grave Digger’s Club’ tells how a small group called Black Archaeologists Club find and sell enough medals and bayonets to be able to invest in advanced equipment and expensive cars....

Investigation by Alexandr Barnatovich, published in Delovaya Gazeta, Minsk, February 18. 2005

The investigations deals with confiscations by the Belo-Russian authorities of goods in transit for Russia. According to the Russian Custosm Service the Belo-Russians confiscated goods worth 15 mill. US-Dollars in 2000 going up to 75 mill. in 2003. Due to this practice transit traffic thorug Belarus has dropped 40 percent. Mr. Barnatovich investigated the practice, the laws authorizing the...

Eventhough tuberculosis was a plague in Europe hundred of years ago, thousand of people in Belarus still die from tuberculosis every year.

Recently local physicians have started calling Orsha “the city of dead”. An outbreak of revealed cancer cases has become the reason of this. The Ministry of Health Protection of the Republic based on known only to this Ministry reasons suppresses the present situation. Even no attempts are made to understand what factors have brought to the situation, when in the city located quite far from Chernobyl area cancerous growth have become a habitude phenomenon. Information already available for the...