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Updated Aug. 31, 2005 20:06 Poland wants Solidarity's legacy to inspire change in autocratic Belarus By ASSOCIATED PRESS GDANSK, Poland Poland's Prime Minister Marek Belka said Wednesday that he wants to see ...

At a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, prime minister Mikhail Fradkov urged the government to simplify the procedure for the acquisition of homes, garages and plots of land.2.7

"We are preparing a decision to send a charge d'affaires to Minsk to monitor the situation on the ground," Barroso told a news conference in Budapest.2.9

Lidiya Yermoshina told the Zvyazda newspaper that the final date would be fixed in a parliamentary decree.2.9

THE JOINT SHIELD by Vladimir Fedosenko Rossiiiskaya Gazeta , August 25, 2005, p. 3 Agency WPS DEFENSE and SECURITY August 29, 2005, Monday It's already the fourth day of the Combat Commonwealth-2005 joint ...

Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and other senior government officials on 24 August took part in solemn celebrations of the 61st anniversary of the liberation of Moldova from the Nazis by the Soviet Army.2.9

A bizarre diplomatic skirmish has broken out between Belarus and Lithuania after the latter decided to build a radioactive waste dump close to their shared border.2.7

Gold reserves at the National Bank of Belarus as of August 20, 2005 amounted to 23.47 tonnes, bank Chairman Pyotr Prokopovich said at a Monday press conference in Minsk.2.7

The detained Georgians, members of Youth Resistance Movement Kmara, Giorgi Kandelaki and Luka Tsuladze remain in Belarusian Security structures preliminary cell.2.9

Four years after Gaza International Airport's sole runway and control tower were demolished by Israeli F-16s, one Palestinian man remembers the ghostly terminal's better days and waits patiently for their ...2.1

NORWAY : SHOTS FIRED AT PLACE TIED TO MUSLIM COMIC Unknown gunmen fired shots at an Oslo restaurant owned by the family of Shabana Rehman, Norway's well-known Muslim stand-up comic.

Pro-democracy leaders from around the world are protesting Belarus after it threatened a cartoonist and two Internet operators with five years in prison.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack briefed the press August 24. Following is the transcript of the State Department briefing: U.S. Department of State Daily Press Briefing Index Wednesday, August 24, ...

The newspaper has been published since November 17, 1992. The newspaper is published five days a week .2.1

Troops of the Northwestern Operational and Tactical Command take part in a tactical exercise.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship ) organization today announced new UFC Heavyweight Champion Andrei Arlovski will face off against Paul "The Headhunter" Buentello in the main event of UFC 55: FURY live at ...

CIS antiterrorist units in Belarus contest practise freeing hostages Belarusian television, Minsk 11 Aug 05 The complex storming of a multistorey building with hostages.

KATHMANDU, Aug. 11: His Majesty the King has appointed Royal Nepalese Ambassador to the Russian Federation Hiranyalal Shrestha, also the Royal Nepalese Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of ...2.7

The Malta Basketball Association this week named the national squads ahead of the upcoming European Championship matches.

Anne and Sam Zakkour, with their son Zach, have had their intended adoption of two Belarusian children suspended because of new regulations.1.3

Armenian President Robert Kocharyan and Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliyev conferred for about two hours in Kazan on Saturday in a bid to find a solution to the Karabakh conflict that has been the cause of ...2.9

The awards were bestowed upon Yevgenia Morozova , Stoicheva Stanka , Feodor Melnik , and Steponas and Viktorija Zrelskis .2.9

ASHTON - Sergei and Olga Zubovich spent a few days with John and Shirley Hess on their farm south of Ashton last month before continuing their travels to visit other friends in the United States.

Sports fields too hard to play on, gardens that have dried up and plumbing so bereft of water that every bathroom smells -- this is the reality of drought in Goulburn, on track to be the first Australian city ...2.1

Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems of the Belarusian State University, ul.

One processor in Belarus, formerly a USSR republic, is out to grab market share from the $2 billion worth of packaging materials imported into the region each year from Western Europe.

The State Russian Museum unveiled its hotly anticipated summer exhibition last week, representing a homecoming for a Russian master and one of the 20th century's most influential artists.

Using Delcams Power Solution CADCAM software enabled the Lutsk Ukrainian Automotive Plant to develop a complete set of tooling from a prototype jeep that had passed all its tests and was ready for mass ...

This Refresher Course continues the discussion of cover-collecting terminology begun in the June 27 Refresher course.1.3

Liverpool face the possibility of a trip to Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan or Armenia when they start the ... The 12 potential opponents for Liverpool are FK Rabotnicki (Macedonia), Dinamo Minsk (Belarus), ...4.5

EVERY year children of the Chernobyl disaster arrive in Merseyside to escape the toxic atmosphere in their home country.2.9

A Belarusian political analyst recently compared the Lukashenka regime's repression of its political opponents to cooking a live frog in a kettle.2.9