The innovation and manufacturing project NeoPark will feature modern manufacturing facilities, medicine and education centers, car parks, cultural spaces, and innovative environment. The space will be fitted with smart benches and solar-power street lights.
Bill on protecting judges, civil servants past Belarusian parliament
MINSK, 21 April (BelTA) – The Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus has passed a bill on amending the law on the state protection of judges, officials of law enforcement and oversight agencies, officers of state protection bodies, BelTA has learned.
Belarusian Internal Affairs Minister Ivan Kubrakov said: “Amendments to the law have been dictated by time. Officials received threats in late 2020 and in early 2021 due to the execution of their official duties. Not only law enforcement officers or judges were threatened but also people with an active civil stance – teachers, artists, reporters also received a large number of threats. This is why the bill introduces the term ‘other people to be protected .”
Belarusian parliament s upper chamber passes amendments to laws on extremism
MINSK, 21 April (BelTA) – Members of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus have passed a bill on amending the laws on counteracting extremism, BelTA has learned.
Prosecutor General Andrei Shved said: “It is very important for us that the Council of the Republic has passed a bill aimed at counteracting extremism. The proposals and novelties the bill incorporates have been prompted by life, by the need to protect our country, sovereignty, our territorial integrity.”
In his words, international experience was taken into account in the course of preparing the bill. “The norms the bill stipulates provide for a complex of balanced measures. Those are prophylactic, preventive, and punishing measures. In other words, the state takes every measure not only to punish but primarily to prevent, to detect and, only after those measures are implemented, to decide on the responsibility