News on the topic: KGB
28.11.2007 Policemen Read «Ordinary President»
On November, 26, KGB investigator Aliaksei Shahinau returned the computer, confiscated from Svetlahorsk dweller Sviatlana Mikhalchanka a month ago.
23.11.2007 Press secretary of United Civil Party «invited» to KGB
roposal “just to talk” was too compulsive. Katsiaryna Tkachenka received a call on her mobile phone
14.11.2007 Representative of Belarusian People’s Republic Died
Belarusian People’s Republic was declared by the Belarusian democratic intellectuals in 1918, short before the Bolshevik’s turned the country into a Soviet republic. The Communists did not recognize Belarusian People’s Republic. The BPF government had to escape abroad.
08.11.2007 Rechytsa: KGB Pays Interest to Kindergarten Nurses
This week the psychologist Tatsiana Lasitsa has been summonsed to Rechytsa KGB office for an informal talk. According to Tatsiana, in the beginning of the week she was invited for a meeting by an unknown man who introduced himself as a KGB worker. He was interested in the circumstances of her participation in the weekly human rights school in Vilnius, Lithuania. Tatsiana Lasitsa told him that she went there in her leisure time and that he would come to a meeting only with her lawyer. Then the ‘unknown’ promised to visit her at work, but still has not come there.
03.11.2007 Homel: KGB Interrogates L.Sudalenka Concerning ‘Young Front’ Case
On 2 November the chair of Homel regional office of the republican NGO Legal Initiative Leanid Sudalenka was interrogated at the local KGB office as a witness in the criminal case concerning the activity of an unregistered NGO Young Front.
02.11.2007 Rechytsa: KGB ‘Checks’ Passport of Entrepreneur Leanid Nevar
Leanid Nevar has passed his passport to the passport and migration service because there were no more clean pages for visas. He paid for quick production of a new passport. They were also to transfer the valid permissive seal for foreign travel.
26.09.2007 Svetlahorsk Pro-Democratic Activists Summoned to KGB
On September 25th local activist Telman Masliukou was interrogated as a witness in the criminal case against Young Front.
13.09.2007 Andrei Tsianiuta Complains to Prosecutor’s Office, KGB Answers instead
On 12 September the public activist Andrei Tsianiuta received an answer from Homel oblast KGB office to his complaint to the prosecutor’s office.
13.09.2007 Methods of KGB Work with Youth on Example of Siarhei Ushakou
The deputy chair of the foreign sales department of the closed corporation Babruiskmeblia (Babruisk furniture) Siarhei Ushakou was surprised when a KGB worker Aliaksadr Kharashkevich came to him and introduced himself as the ‘curator of the plant from KGB’ (such position really exists, though in reality the plant curator is not Kharashkevich). Ushakou already knew Kharashkevich from talks with his form-mate Maksim Buinitski who had been summonsed to interrogations concerning the Young Front case this spring.
11.09.2007 Pupils Summonsed to KGB for Visiting Free Theater
On 22 August a theatric play was staged by the Free Theater. The police detained the people who came to see it. Three under-aged spectators have been already summonsed to KGB. All of them were told that they would not be able to enter any high school and would be expelled from their secondary schools in case they visited the theater once again.
07.09.2007 Hrodna: Maksim Hubarevich Taken to Local KGB Office
In the morning on 7 September KGB workers visited the public and political activist Maksim Hubarevich at work. They handed to him a summons to come to the KGB office for giving explanations. There wasn’t specified which explanations he was to give and why, but they did not explain anything to him.
06.09.2007 Mahiliou: Police Detain Distributors of Youth Bulletin
At about 8 p.m. on 5 September in Leninskaya Street in Mahiliou the police detained for handing out Moladzevy biuleten UFF-BY.org (Youth Bulletin) three under aged persons: Ales Anisimau, Artsiom Davydau and Kastus Yauseyeu. 173 copies of the edition were confiscated from them.
22.08.2007 Customs Office Checks Your Letters Abroad
Recently the deputy chair of the International Federation for Human Rights Ales Bialiatski has started receiving foreign letters with interesting seals: ‘To present for customs examination’ and ‘Transportation permitted. Minsk regional customs office’. Such attentive examination of Mr. Bialiatski’s letters is not occasional. In fact, in Belarus there exists a convenient system of control of the private correspondence of public and human rights activists and politicians.
27.06.2007 Bulgaria Opens Security Services’ Archives
After 17 years of political and economic transformation Bulgaria, as a last country of the former Soviet camp, is trying to reckon with its Communist past.
