BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

25/04/2006

Belarus Opposition Warned About March

April 25, 2006 -- Authorities in Minsk have told Belarusian opposition parties they will not be allowed to use party symbols during a planned protest march to mark the 20th anniversary of the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear disaster.

The authorities have sanctioned a march on April 25, but changed its route away from the city center, the site of unprecedented protests against President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's reelection last month.

Lukashenka himself today traveled to a region of Belarus close to the Ukrainian border contaminated by radiation released during the disaster.

Belarus lay in the immediate path of the radioactive cloud caused by the April 26, 1986 disaster in neighboring Ukraine.

(belta.by)

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/04/91CB2730-DFAF-47F0-BEBF-BFDCAF7C9A2A.html

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