BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

October 13, 2005

EU 'interfering in Belarus'

The Times

Moscow: Russia has urged the EU to stop funding radio broadcasts into Belarus, accusing it of using Cold War tactics to try to topple the autocratic President Lukashenko. President Putin's envoy to the EU, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, said that Brussels was interfering in the internal affairs of the former Soviet republic. The EU has put ?138,000 (?94,730) into a programme focusing on the country's opposition, but denies that it is interfering.

Source:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1823170,00.html