News on the topic: students
06.10.2008 Foreign students of Homel State Medical University strike to protest against racial harassment
Instead of coming to classes, foreign students gathered in the hall of the higher educational establishment and demanded that a meeting with the police was held there. They turned the attention of the administration to facts of hooligan assaults near the hostel where citizens of India lived.
15.09.2008 ‘Extremist materials’ found on youth activist’s computer 18 months after confiscation
On 13 September a student of Bialystok University Aliaksei Trubkin received documents from Hrodna regional KGB department by post. According to them, the guy is to come to the court of Kastrychnitski district in Hrodna on 18 September, as he is charged with ‘extremism’.
10.09.2008 ‘Young Front’ activist Rastsislau Pankratau expelled from Mahiliou State University
As we have already informed, the administration of Mahiliou State University planned to expel the student after giving him an unsatisfactory mark at his English exam. The information proved to be true: Rastsislau Pankratau was expelled.
05.09.2008 Mahiliou: youth activists are expelled from university
The coordinator of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Party Tatsiana Shambalava and a leader of Mahiliou organization of the Young Front Rastsislau Pankratau are expelled from Mahiliou State University.
02.09.2008 September: more students to be expelled?
An activist of Polatsk branch of the Young Front Mikola Dzemidzenka was informed that he would be expelled from historical faculty of Polatsk State University.
08.08.2008 Harry Pahaniaila: entrance interviews violate matriculates’ rights
On 7 August the education minister Uladzimir Radzkou and the first deputy head of the presidential administration Anatol Rubinau (who is called the main ideologist of a new school reform) had a meeting with journalists to discuss the results of the entrance exams to the high schools of Belarus.
15.07.2008 Ales Krauchenia is fired from Baranavichy State University
A week ago the administration of Baranavichy State University issued the order for expulsion of the student Ales Krauchenia from the fifth year of the faculty of engineering. On 14 July the activist had to take his documents away from the university.
10.07.2008 Ales Krutkin is expelled from Belarusian State University
The Young Front activist Ales Krutkin, first-year student of the historical faculty of Belarusian State University, learnt after he had returned from abroad, he had been expelled from the university.
08.07.2008 Mahiliou: ‘Young Front’ activist Rastsislau Pankratau gets expelled from university
Rastislau Pankratau, first-year student of Mahilou State University named after A.Kuliashou, was invited to the dean’s office, where he was informed about his expulsion.
07.07.2008 Artsiom Lastavetski is expelled from university
Recently the Young Front activist Artsiom Lastavetski has been informed about his expulsion from the second year of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radio Electronics.
02.07.2008 Democratic activist Katsiaryna Manchuk is expelled from Mazyr State University
The girl was called to talks in the dean’s office and was asked to stop her public activity. But the administration of the university insists the girl had been expelled due to her bad results at the examination period, RFE/RL reports.
10.06.2008 Polastk: political views as obstacle to becoming a honors man
An activist of the Young Front Zmitser Sakalou, the best graduate of Polatsk Lyceum, has been deprived a diploma with honors because of his political convictions.
12.05.2008 KGB continues pressurizing youth activists
Recently a member of the youth wing of the BPF Party Ruslan Shoshyn was to have come to Sweden for a short-term educational seminar. However, he got ill and had to stay in Belarus.
08.05.2008 Student Aleh Hrubich not let abroad
Aleh Hrubich, first-year student of the faculty of Belarusian history and cultural anthropology of the European Humanities University came from Vilnius to Minsk on holidays, but didn’t manage to return back. The border guards took him off the train without explaining anything and made him wait for five hours. Then he was taken to Minsk for ‘further discrimination’.
08.05.2008 KGB continues ‘prophylactic talks’ with students
Katsiaryna Yurchankova, third-year student of the library college in Mahiliou, was visited by a KGB officer during her studies. He introduced himself as Aliaksandr Miadzvedzeu, counter-intelligence officer. He had a tête-à-tête talk with Katsiaryna at the office of the college administration. The girl was invited there by one of the college teachers.
