News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Head of OSCE Office in Minsk says sentences for opposition figures unjustified
Publishing date: 1 June 2005
MINSK, 1 June 2005- The Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk, Ambassador Eberhard Heyken, expressed his concern over the criminal sentences handed down yesterday by the Minsk District Court on two prominent Belarusian opposition figures...
Head of OSCE Minsk Office says closing of opinion poll institute in Belarus is regrettable
Publishing date: 18 April 2005
MINSK, 18 April 2005- The Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk, Ambassador Eberhard Heyken, today expressed regret over the recent decision by the Supreme Court of Belarus to liquidate the Independent Institute of Social, Economic and Political...
Head of OSCE Office in Minsk visits Alexander Vasilyev in prison hospital
Publishing date: 13 April 2005
MINSK, 13 April 2005- The Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk today visited Alexander Vasilyev in the First Colony prison hospital in Minsk. Mr. Vasilyev and his associate Valery Levonevski were sentenced to two years of imprisonment for defaming the...
Head of OSCE Minsk Office visits Mikhail Marinich in prison hospital
Publishing date: 23 March 2005
MINSK, 23 March 2005- The Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk, Ambassador Eberhard Heyken, together with British Ambassador Brian Bennett and the lawyer Vera Stremkovksaya, today visited former Minister of Foreign Economics Relations Mikhail Marinich in...
OSCE holds seminar in Minsk on State support for small and medium business
Publishing date: 18 November 2004
MINSK, 18 November 2004- A seminar designed to help develop the draft law on State support for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) opened today in the International Business Centre (IBB) in Minsk. The two-day event...
Head of OSCE Office gravely concerned over attacks on opposition politicians in Minsk
Publishing date: 20 October 2004
MINSK, 20 October 2004- On 19 October, Belarusian riot police carried out violent attacks on a number of leading opposition figures and journalists after a political demonstration in Minsk. United Civic Party Chairman Anatoly Lebedko was hospitalized...
Head of OSCE Office criticizes prison sentences passed on two accused of defaming Belarus President
Publishing date: 8 September 2004
MINSK, 8 September 2004- A judge of the Leninsky District Court in Grodno, yesterday sentenced Valery Levonevsky and his deputy Alexander Vasilyev to two years imprisonment for defaming the President of Belarus...