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Freedom of association and the legal status of NGOs in Belarus |
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
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We would like to introduce you here the materials of actual research "Freedom of association and the legal status of NGOs in Belarus, 2007", that was kindly offered for publication at our website by the authors - experts of Assembly of Pro-democratic NGOs in Belarus within the frames of cooperative research with Foundation For Legal Technologies Development. The text of research is available in Belarusian, Russian and English versions. |
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Assessment of Foreign Donors' Policies by Belarusian NGOs |
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
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Support to Civil Society in Belarus: a view from within. Final report of a survey of Belarusian NGOs "An Assessment of Foreign Donors' Policies by Belarusian NGOs"
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Over the Hedge: Comparing Life in Lithuania and Belarus |
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
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Eastern Europe Studies Centre (www.eesc.lt) has successfully prepared a comparative socioeconomical study about Life in Lithuania and Belarus. The main objective of the research was to show the pros and cons of living in Lithuania (an EU and NATO member) and in Belarus (CIS member). The EESC experts gathered information about prices of wide variety of goods and services in both countries and compared them in the context of local earnings. The caricatures and visual representation of the statistical data makes this analytical study highly attractive. The study was pulished in three languages: Lithuanian, English and Russian.
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Belarusian-European cooperation: the vision and estimation of the European partners |
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
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The continuation of the research on the materials of the interview, conducted within the framework of the “Support to the development of the potential and network cooperation of Belarusian NGOs and the local authorities” project in April – September 2007. The interviewed were representing major NGOs of the European countries, which took part in EU and EU member countries’ projects.
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BELARUS: How serious is official call to phase out foreign clergy? |
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
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By Geraldine Fagan, Forum 18 News Service www.forum18.org, and Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service www.forum18.org
The Catholic Church is unsure about the implications of remarks by
Belarusian Vice-premier Aleksandr Kosinets about foreign clergy. With about 190
foreign priests plus more than 100 nuns, the Catholic Church is by far the
religious community in Belarus which relies most heavily on foreign clergy.
Kosinets told a 19 September round table with Belarus' religious leaders that
the Catholic Church should end the use of foreign clergy over the next few
years. However, Forum 18 News Service has been unable to clarify whether this
is a recommendation or an order. "The Vice-premier's words arouse
questions and perplexities rather than outright concern," a senior
Catholic told Forum 18. Religious affairs official Aleksandr Kalinov, who was
also present at the round table, refused to tell Forum 18 if action will be
taken if the Catholic Church does not end the use of foreign priests, but
insisted: "No-one is preparing to expel them." The Catholic Church –
like the Orthodox Church – also has a number of foreign-born bishops, while
other religious communities – including Jews – have foreign religious leaders. |
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Belarus: vegetable crop will exceed 2 million MT |
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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Warsaw - According to the information presented
by representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of Belarus for
the Interfax Agency, the country plans to harvest more than 2 million MT of
vegetables in the present season. “We forecast the vegetable crop to reach 2,08
million MT, which will draw level with the 2006 crop”, announced Belarusian
experts. |
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Majority of Ukrainians living in Belarus vote for Party of Regions |
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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The majority of Ukrainian citizens who took part
in the Ukrainian parliamentary elections in Belarus, cast their votes in favour
of the Party of Regions. |
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Eurobarometer on culture: Europeans affirm their strong attachment to culture and expect more from.. |
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
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A new Europe-wide survey
has revealed that two-thirds of Europeans feel that they share elements of a
collective culture. Nearly nine out of ten Europeans say that culture, cultural
exchanges and intercultural dialogue should have an important place in the EU.
These findings emerged from the recent Eurobarometer survey of people's views
on culture, which was carried out during the spring. The survey covered 26,000
persons from all over Europe and from all walks of life. |
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Belarus-European cooperation: news from the field. |
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
Report by
the dialog meetings conducted in the frames of the project
Support to the capacity building and networking of
Belarusian Non Governmental Organizations and Local Authorities”, April – June
2007.
In the dialog meetings
Representatives
of Belarusian NGOs and state institutions
participants of the EU and EU country supported
projects took part in interviews, in total 30 respondents.
… When we were making up the
inquiry for the interview on problems and perspectives of Belarus-European
cooperation, we had mush to scratch head over formulation of questions to
people who are likely to be negative about such cooperation. However our cautiousness turned out to
be excessive as we found no such attitude in our respondents. All representatives of NGOs, public movements and
governmental bodies polled under the inquiry, are positive about the
cooperation between Belarus and Europe, yet with different enthusiasm and on
different bases (from value to pragmatic ones) but positive in general. Yet this is the only question requiring such rare
unanimity. |
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EUROBAROMETER: the Europeans support the enhancement of cooperation with the neighbouring countries |
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Thursday, 30 August 2007 |
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The research done for the Eurocommission by the “Eurobarometer” service has proved that the majority of people of the friend-states of the EU support the efforts of strengthening the cooperation with the neighbor-states of the EU. Most of the respondents consider the working
together in the spheres of fighting organized crime and terrorism, nature
protection, energy, economic development, migration, democracy and higher
education as a very important. The larger part of the European population think
that assisting the neighbouring countries would promote spreading of democracy
and peace outside the EU borders, and about half of the people suppose that the
neighbouring countries want to cooperate with the EU for the purpose of inner
reforms. |
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