News on the topic: elections-2015
06.08.2015 "Hazieta Slonimskaja" Faces Trial for Insulting the President
According to article 23.33 of the Code of Adminstrative Offenses,the non-state newspaper can be fined for up to 500 basic amounts (90 million rubles).
06.08.2015 Tatsiana Seviarynets not allowed to meet with “MP”
A meeting with a “member of parliament” was organised at "Viciebskdreŭ" ("Viciebsk Wood") plant on August 4. The meeting was free for all.
05.08.2015 Minsk, “Amkodor”: people who aren't members of Lukashenka's electoral team, are told to collect signatures in his support
The company's employees have reported that the ideologist of the enterprise had summoned an officer of each structural subdivision, and handed them signature sheets so that they would start collecting signatures in support of the nomination of the candidacy of Aliaksandr Lukashenka.
05.08.2015 Modern technologies are used for collecting signatures (photos)
"Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections" have received an E-mail with contained information about using the service of internal messages of the Belarusian State Institute of Standardization and Certification to organize the collection of signatures for the incumbent President.
05.08.2015 Karma district newspaper tells readers about campaigning for Lukashenka
Though campaigning during the collection of signatures for the nomination of candidacies for the election is banned, Karma state-owned newspaper tells its readers about a "hot campaigning to support the candidacy of Aliaksandr Lukashenka" at the electoral pickets that are held by his electoral team.
04.08.2015 Homieĺ polyclinic: medics are told to sign for Lukashenka during working hours
Collection of signatures in support of the nomination of the candidacy of Aliaksandr Lukashenka for the elections was organized at branch No. 1 of Homieĺ city central polyclinic.
04.08.2015 Signatures for Lukashenka are also collected at “Homieĺkabieĺ”
The Human Rights Center "Viasna" has learned that July 28 at the company “Homieĺkabieĺ” people were forced to sign for the candidacy of Aliaksandr Lukashenka during working hours.
04.08.2015 Mahilioŭ: collection of signatures for Lukashenka started at “Zenith” before registration of electoral teams
This was reported by Aliaksei Paulouski, who is collecting signatures in support of presidential contender from the United Civil Party Anatol Liabedzka.
04.08.2015 District newspapers of Mahilioŭ region also write only about collection of signatures for nomination of Lukashenka
The websites of the district newspapers of Mahilioŭ region contain few articles dedicated to the presidential electoral campaign of the Republic of Belarus so far.
04.08.2015 Websites of district executive committees in Brest region inform only about collection of signatures only for the incumbent
Most internet pages of the executive power in the region quite modestly inform about the campaign for the presidential elections in Belarus and are confined to official reports on the establishment of election commissions at the local level.
03.08.2015 No apologies from Mikalai Lazavik
Chairman of Hrodna regional organization of the United Civil Party Aliaksandra Vasilevich has received an official response to his complaint to the CEC. The Central Election Commission did not consider it necessary to apologize for the insulting words and legal illiteracy of its secretary Mikalai Lazavik.
03.08.2015 Hrodna: collector of signatures for Liabedzka attacked by a stranger
August 3 in the suburb of Farty in Hrodna, an unknown man assaulted Mikalai Voran, a collector of signatures for Anatol Liabedzka. He approached the electoral picket in a taxi several times, shouted out pro-Russian slogans and that he was Russian, charging on Mikalai Voran. The activist called the police, but the offender retired.
03.08.2015 At "Mahilioŭkhimvalakno" signatures for Lukashenka are collected during working hours by non-members of his electoral team
According to the workers of the plant "Mahilioŭkhimvalakno" (“Mahilioŭ Chemical Fiber”), the collection of signatures was organized on July 23. Before that, the heads of all departments of the enterprise told the workers to come to work with passports, as signatures in support of the candidacy of Aliaksandr Lukashenka were being collected.
03.08.2015 Websites of district executive committee of Mahilioŭ region provide information only about pickets in support of just one candidacy
Articles about the pickets for collecting signatures for nomination of candidates for the presidential elections have been published at a number of websites of the district executive committees of Mahilioŭ region.
03.08.2015 Number of polling stations in Baranavičy gets bigger
Second sitting of Baranavičy City Territorial Election Committee has been held in the building of Baranavičy City Executive Committee. Three questions have been considered there: the determination of the number and borders of the electoral precincts, the payment to members of TECs and the schedule of duty in August.
