Stories about Belarus from December, 2006
Russia, Belarus: “Gazilla”
There's a distinct sense of deja vu this New Year's Eve: Gazprom, Russia's largest (and state-controlled) company and the world's biggest extractor of natural gas, is in the spotlight again, both locally (due to an ambitious and controversial construction project in St. Petersburg) and internationally (due to a dispute over...
Belarus: Internet and Charity in Grodno
Information Policy blog reports on a charity campaign launched by the Grodno internet community.
Belarus, Russia: Gas Problems
TOL's Belarus Blog writes that the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom “is not going to tolerate Lukashenka’s bluff and proceeds from warnings to direct actions.”
Belarus: Oil Export Quotas
TOL's Belarus Blog reacts to the newly-introduced Russian export quotas for oil shipped to Belarus – and to the U.S. State Departments response.
Belarus: Kozulin's Hunger Strike
News on Aleksandr Kozulin's 53-day hunger strike over at TOL's Belarus Blog.
Belarus: CNN Available Online
CNN is no longer available in Belarus, writes TOL's Belarus Blog, but “as long as Internet spreads through the country, blocking news channels would be useless…”
Belarus: Absent-Minded Opposition
Belarusian opposition leader got detained recently, and – surprise, surprise – his detention was justified: he went to Latvia on his son's passport. More on the implications of such absent-mindedness at TOL's Belarus Blog.
Belarus: Media on Blogs
“‘Belgazeta’, ‘Salidarnasc’, BDG (‘Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta’), naviny.by – all of them publications with critical and objective approach – ran a piece in the past months describing blogs as the new alternative information source, as a major trend in mass media, or speaking about their vulnerability to desinformation.” Read more on...