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		<title>Uladzimir Katkouski Memorial Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2006, shortly before the tragic accident Rydel <a href="http://www.br23.net/be/2006/03/31/tut_by_contest_/"> won the Gran Prix in the content competition </a>  organized by <a href ="http://www.tut.by."> tut.by </a>. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2008/04/14/uladzimir-katkouski-memorial-prize/</link>
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		<title>Farewell&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Dear Friends,
	All of you that knew Uladzimir Katkouski, personally or through the net, may come and pay your respects to him, on Saturday, the 2nd of June till 15:00 at the address: Mensk,  Sharanhovicha street, house.52, apt. 161. The funeral procession starts at 15:00 and we will all go towards the Piatroushchyna cemetery (crossing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2007/05/30/farewell/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Dear Friends,
Tonight was the saddest day of our lives. Uladzimir, after a long fight passed away in Prague. We believe it was his wish to be returned to his home country Belarus. He will be buried next week in Minsk. Our consolation is that a lot of people are feeling for him and are with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2007/05/26/235/</link>
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		<title>Genocide at a Russian Opera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	&#8226; Contemplating Genocide at a Moscow Opera:
	I try very hard not to be Russophobic, and most of the time I succeed. There is one place, however, where I frequently have fantasies of mercilessly hacking to death scores of Russians with a blunt machete &#8212; the concert hall. It&#8217;s one thing when high-school dropouts and small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/06/12/genocide-at-a-russian-opera/</link>
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		<title>Lucas Cranach &#038;&#038; Extinct Shark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	On Saturday we visited Lobkowicz&#8217;s castle near Prague, saw the original paintings of Lucas Cranach, Rubens, Breugel, and many other famous painters, including unique paintings of Spanish artists from 15th and 16th century. Walking through the castle rooms I felt awed and even subdued by the weight of this centuries-old art and European civilization. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/06/12/lucas-cranach-extinct-shark/</link>
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		<title>Germany - Czech Republic (not football)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Ze Germans are still pressuring Czechs about &#8220;bad treatment&#8221; of Germans during World War Two and apparently are planning to engage in WWII revisionism:
	Even before a new Czech government has been constituted, prominent German politicians are exerting pressure on Prague. They are demanding the indictment of former members of the Czechoslovakian resistance against Nazi-occupation. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/06/11/germany-czech-republic-not-football/</link>
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		<title>Tomasz Wacko killed by Norwegian police?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Tomasz Wacko (pronounced Vah-ts-koh) died exactly three years ago. Until yesterday I didn&#8217;t even know he existed.
	He was an opposition (&#8221;Solidarnosc&#8221;) activist from Poland, who found refuge in Norway and became a prominent human rights activist at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, also devoting a lot of time and effort to the democracy cause in Belarus. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/06/09/tomasz-wacko-killed-by-norwegian-police/</link>
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		<title>MOVIE: Five Fingers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	A movie about terrorists? A psychological thriller? A political commentary on US-Arab situation? Lawrence Fishburne speaking with Arabic accent and pulling a great performance? A movie that is shot in one room but never gets boring? Is that something that would interest you? Then I highly recommend you a new movie &#8220;Five Fingers&#8221; (imdb).

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		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/06/05/movie-five-fingers/</link>
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		<title>Belarus or Belgium? It&#8217;s the same</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Is it just me or geographical mix-ups with Belarus are now happening more and more often? New Dehli TV (India) reports from Paris:
	&#8220;Bhupathi and Xavier Malisse of Belarus registered an easy 6-2, 6-2 victory over Gilles Muller of Luxemburg and Christophe Rochus of Belarus to move into the second round of the clay court event.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/06/03/belarus-or-belgium-its-the-same/</link>
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		<title>Roland Garros Shock</title>
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	As you can see, Eurosport editors put up the national white-red-white flag (!) next to the name of the Belarusan tennis player Anastassia Yakimova who was playing against Belgian star Henin-Hardenne today on the main court of Roland Garros. The white-red-white flag was banned by Alexander Lukashenka in 1996. Since then he forbid using it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/06/01/roland-garros-shock/</link>
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		<title>EU soft on Moscow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	My online friend Evgeny Morozov wrote yet another brilliant commentary for &#8220;Brussels Journal&#8221;:
	The Russia-EU summit which took place in the Russian city of Sochi last week, was another foreign policy debacle for the European Union. Of course, the EU did reach a number of technical agreements with the Kremlin on issues like visa facilitation, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/31/eu-soft-on-moscow/</link>
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		<title>Sky Europe a Russian Imperialist?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Good news for RuSSian Nazis and imperialists. Sky Europe (the largest Central European low-cost airline) and &#8220;Novy Smichov&#8221; (one of the largest shopping malls in Czech Republic) are vouching their full support for Russian imperialism. Here&#8217;s the proof of endorsment:
	
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	The &#8220;new&#8221; map of Europe was spotted at the information kiosk at the main entrance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/30/sky-europe-novy-smichov-russian-imperialists/</link>
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		<title>Lithuanian Banks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	&#8220;Banker&#8221; published an article about Lithuania in its latest issue:
	&#8226; Ten years old and looking good (online version doesn&#8217;t have table and graphs, unfortunately)
	&#8220;Lithuania’s banking sector has come from nowhere a decade ago to become a highly competitive business.&#8221;
	“Hansabankas was the first to introduce chip-cards in the country, and our ATM terminals are now chip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/28/lithuanian-banks/</link>
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		<title>Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I can&#8217;t stop noticing that in the last several years I&#8217;ve become quite unfocused and lazy when it comes to reading books, both fiction and non-fiction.
	University provided me with some sort of mental discipline and a habit to read books, but I graduated in 2000, and since then it seems I&#8217;ve been reading much less. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/27/reading/</link>
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		<title>Germans&#8217; Realpolitik</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	There&#8217;s a website german-foreign-policy.com which regularly provides news, insider information, insightful analyses, reviews, interviews with top German politologists, diplomats and politicians.
	It gives a very good idea of what Germans&#8217; Realpolitik is all about. They are handling politics based on German-centered, strictly practical rather than idealistic notions, and practice them without any sentimental illusions, only with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/22/germans-realpolitik/</link>
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		<title>Any International Interest in Belarus?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I had an impression after our presidential &#8220;elections&#8221; that news coverage about Belarus very quickly subsided and returned to pre-election levels after Belarusans &#8220;failed&#8221; to stage a color revolution contary to Westerners&#8217; expectations. This was just a subjective impression, but my hunch turned out to be correct. Recently, Google launched yet another new nifty tool, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/21/any-international-interest-in-belarus/</link>
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		<title>White Estonia (Finland)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	It&#8217;s a historical victory over Switzerland. For the first time since Belarus gained independence our national ice hockey team has made it to the quarter finals of the world championship. We are playing Finland (Suomi) after tomorrow. What do we know about Finland, except Nokia? We know that they literally call us &#8220;White Russia&#8221; with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/17/white-estonia-finland/</link>
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		<title>One million dollars for RFE/RL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	More than a year ago Radio Free Europe made a public announcement that RFE/RL headquarters are to be moved from Prague&#8217;s center to a different location, away from the Old Town. And recently Czech government announced that they are giving a gift of one million dollars to the radio to be spent on the relocation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/16/one-million-dollars-for-rferl/</link>
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		<title>Bill Clinton. My Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Today, I started listening to a 6-hour long mp3 recording with the audio book Bill Clinton. My Life read by the author himself. It totally absorbed my attention. No matter what some Americans say, Clinton is an amazing personality, a brilliant politician (notwithstanding some problems), a really smart man. Such a striking contrast to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/14/bill-clinton-my-life/</link>
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		<title>3 months for draft evasion</title>
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	A youth opposition activist Mikita Sasim has been handed a three month jail sentence for draft evasion.
	First of all, virtually no one goes to jail in Belarus for draft evasion. This is exceptional. Second, last autumn he had been granted a deferral from the army doctors because of brain injuries which he sustained after being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.br23.net/en/2006/05/13/3-months-for-draft-evasion/</link>
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