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Office for a Democratic Belarus: where Belarus and Brussels meet.
Energy Club: Perspective Strategies for Development of Alternative Energy Sources
"Strategies for alternative energy development in Belarus need a sound policy and not a 'miracle' energy source". This was the dominant theme at the second session of the Energy Club, which was held in Minsk on 11 March 2010. Experts from Belarus and the European Union discussed the latest trends in the development of alternative energy sources in the European Union and debated how the EU experience can be applied to enhance energy security and energy efficiency in Belarus. Professor Philip Peck from the Lund University (Sweden) presented a report on the institutional and public policy aspects of the development of alternative energy sources. The report focused on how restructuring of the energy sector, particularly the transition to decentralized combined heat and power generation, makes economies more flexible in utilizing the domestic energy resources such as agricultural waste and peat. The debate that followed featured presentations from entrepreneur with an interest in the development of alternative energy sources, researchers from the International Sakharov Environmental University, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radio-electronics. |
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News from Belarus
2010-03-12 22:13 / AFP
 President Alyaksandr Lukashenka on Friday issued an unusual public dressing-down to the Belarus ice hockey side, threatening to ban them from the world championships if they repeated their poor Olympic showing.
2010-03-12 12:50 / naviny.by
 Fifteen of the 9,689 people who have been included in the Brest region’s precinct election commissions for the April 25 local elections represent opposition political parties, Alyaksandr Kalyada, head of the organizational and personnel management department of the Brest Regional Executive Committee, told BelaPAN.
2010-03-12 12:38 / ERB
 The leaders and activists of the Belarusian Christian Democracy today held a press conference at the premises of the Party of the Belarusian Popular Front titled "Repressions against the canididates from the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy.
2010-03-12 12:32 / Polskie Radio
 The District Court in Minsk has ruled that a Polish community centre in the western city of Ivyanets will no longer be run by the Union of Poles in Belarus. The court has transferred the community centre to a rival, pro-government Union of Poles in Belarus, recognized by President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, explaining that the organization run by Andzelika Borys - which is recognized in Warsaw as the legitimate representatives of the Polish minority - had no right to occupy the building.
2010-03-12 12:19 / Warsaw Business Journal
 Commenting on the European Parliament's latest condemnation of Belarus' treatment of minorities, the press service of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry said it was biased and had "nothing to do with the real situation."
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International news on Belarus
2010-03-12 12:59 / Radio Free Europe
Rescue workers have found the bodies of four Belarusian tourists killed by an avalanche in Russia's northwestern region of Murmansk, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
2010-03-12 12:43 / Radio Free Europe
 Although Belarus has a bicameral national legislature and a governing cabinet under a prime minister, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has directly run all the country's institutions since he was elected president in 1994, the State Department said.
2010-03-12 12:18 / vheadline.com
 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has confirmed his plans to visit Russia, Belarus and Libya in September to bolster cooperation with these three countries, AFP reported.
2010-03-11 14:58 / ERB
 Four Belgian looms have been launched at a Brest plant “Brest carpets”. Each of the looms costs 1 million euro. Two of them already work in three shifts.
2010-03-11 14:56 / ERB
 A civil hearing dedicated to the materials describing the influence of the Belarusian NPP on the environment will take place in Latvia soon. According to BelTA, the deputy Belarusian Minister of Energy Mihail Mihadzyuk has informed about it.
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Policy briefs Analysis, policy reports and briefs
2010-03-12 11:30 / European Exchange, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee, Human Rights Centre 'Viasna'
 Balance in the election commissions between independent parties and organisations, and officials who are loyal to the regime
According to the new electoral code, the number of representatives from political parties and civil organisations should be brought up to at least a third of the commission members, and the number of officials should also be reduced to a third. The remaining seats should be occupied by representatives of workers’ committees and by candidates who have collected at least ten signatures. In addition, judges, state lawyers and the chairmen of the executive committees and the supervisory authorities are forbidden from becoming members of the election committees. (More on this topic can be found in Newsletter №1 from 04.03.2010.)
2010-03-11 12:45
 Only 13 to15% of supplies are provided from Belarus’ own resources. The main type of fuel used in the country is a natural gas, which is purchased in Russia. Its share in the fuel mix is 75-80%. Belarus is not the only country in Europe which depends on Russian energy supplies. The same applies to the Baltic States, as well as a number of Central European states. However, none of these countries has such a high dependence on one country – Russia – as does Belarus.
2010-03-10 11:47 / RIA Novosti
By Michael Delyagin, Director of the Institute on Problems of Globalization.
At the moment of disintegration of the Soviet Union Belarus of the time didn't in any way stand out for Russia from the general circle of the states of the postSoviet space. Democratic movement there was rather moderated (and had basically character of ecological reaction to Chernobyl accident), antisovietism and anticommunism were limited to a narrow layer of intelligence and separate representatives of culture.
2010-03-08 10:57 / International Relations and Security Network
 The closing of Lithuania’s only nuclear power plant in accordance with EU requirements will render it dependent on Russian energy and perhaps vulnerable to Kremlin influence, Anna Dunin writes for ISN Security Watch.
By Anna Dunin for ISN Security Watch
2010-03-05 13:52 / The European Exchange, Human Rights Centre 'Viasna',the Belaruski Helsinki Committee
 In Belarus, elections to the local councils are being held on the 25th April. European Exchange is continuing its cooperation with the Minsk Human Rights Organisations – the Human Rights Center ‘Viasna’ and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee – which began during the Belarusian parliamentary elections in 2008. This year, it is again reporting on the developments of the elections. The election monitoring campaign, ‘Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections’, which was initiated in 2008, has since received the award ‘Civil Campaign of the Year 2008’ from the Association of Pro-Democratic Nongovernmental Organisations in Belarus.
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The European Commission has issued a call for proposals for new regional investment and trade facilitation project EAST-INVEST for Eastern Partnership countries. |
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