BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

20/02/2008

Sweden Ends Cooperation With Belarusian University Over Student's Expulsion

The Swedish partners of the Belarusian State University have announced that they are breaking their connections with the university's faculty of journalism over the recent expulsion of Franak Vyachorka, an activist of the youth wing of the opposition Belarusian Popular Front, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reported on February 18. Sweden has provided the Belarusian State University with 49 million kronas ($7.7 million) in mutual training programs to date. The university authorities expelled Vyachorka, a third-year student of the journalism faculty, for failing to pass two exams. Vyachorka argued that he took his exams as soon as possible after serving a jail term. He was sentenced to jail for supporting an associate while she stood trial for participating in an unauthorized demonstration of small-business owners. The university authorities have not recognized the jail sentence as a sufficient excuse for missing exams. AM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2008/02/3-cee/cee-200208.asp

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