News on the topic: Polatsk
22.09.2008 Polatsak: Detentions for distributing newspaper Vybar
Polatsak police drew up reports on youth activists Ales Krutkin from Polatsak and Kastus Ivanou from Vitebsk. The guys accused of distribution of printed materials without publisher’s data had to spend 1.5 hours in the police station. When the reports were drawn up, the police informed them they would receive summons to court or administrative commission. The police officers did not return 228 copies of Vybar newspaper that advocates for boycott of the parliamentary election.
18.08.2008 Polatsak: Main principle of forming precinct election commissions is dependence
The principles of creation precinct election commissions did not change in Polatsak – just as it happened during the previous election, members of one work collective often become the core of a precinct commission. The person who the rest of commission members depend on is often chosen commission chairperson. Let take precinct election commission # 1 as an example.
