Command and staff exercises have begun at the department of emergency management, testing the readiness of the ministry of emergency situations and municipalities of the region for floods. In the republic its peak is expected in midapril. There are 25 settlements in the risk zone. With details from anastasia berezina. Residents of the igrinsky district have a rehearsal for evacuation, if a flood occurs, they only take with them documents, a set of clothes, and food. Those affected by the rising water are being accommodated in temporary centers. There are 12 of them in the area. Inside there is everything for a comfortable life sleeping places, a medical room, a childrens room. Emergency Situations Ministry employees note that the igrinsky district floods almost every spring. Every year almost 500 houses find themselves in water, and this year the flood season will be more difficult. Snow levels are 60 above normal. The municipality is already preparing reserves. This is always a supply
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a new escalation in Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s frenetic persecution of the media ever since his fraudulent election three years ago, an escalation in which even journalists working for the state media or media that usually toe the government line are now being targeted.