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☆ Nobel Laureate and Activist Ales Bialiatski Sentenced to 10 Years in Belarusian Prison
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Ann M. Simmons | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ales Bialiatski in the defendants’ cage during a courtroom hearing in Minsk, Belarus. A court in Belarus sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison, the latest effort in a campaign to silence critics of the country’s authoritarian ruler President Alexander Lukashenko . A court in the Belarusian capital of Minsk ruled Friday that Mr. Bialiatski and three co-defendants were guilty of smuggling, organizing and financing public protests and other crimes, senior prosecutor Aleksandr Korol told Belarusian state television.

☆ Factbox: Who is Belarusian Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

He denied the charges, which he and other human rights activists called politically motivated. NOBEL PRIZEBialiatski, 60, won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize together with Russian human rights organisation Memorial and Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. Fellow human rights campaigners portray him as a symbol of resistance to oppression in Belarus and globally. During mass opposition protests in 1996, he co-founded the Viasna human rights organisation with the aim of providing financial and legal assistance to political prisoners and their families. After initially working as a schoolteacher, he went on to become a scholar of Belarusian literature and museum director.

☆ Nobel winner Bialiatski jailed in Belarus for a decade, sparking outcry
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Andrew Osborn | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Footage from the cramped Minsk court showed Bialiatski, who co-founded the Viasna (Spring) human rights group, looking sombre, his hands cuffed behind his back, as he and his co-defendants watched proceedings from a courtroom cage. Bialiatski, who was arrested in 2021, and three co-defendants were charged with financing protests and smuggling money. Belarusian state news agency Belta confirmed the court had handed down long jail sentences to all the men, including a decade in prison for Bialiatski. That, she said, placed human rights defenders at risk of criminal prosecution for their legitimate activities. Viasna, the organisation he co-founded, took a leading role in providing legal and financial assistance to those jailed.

☆ Nobel laureate calls for national reconciliation at trial in Belarus
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KYIV, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski called for "national reconciliation" between the Belarus authorities and opposition on Monday, in his final statement at a trial he said was politically motivated. "We need to start a broad public dialogue aimed at national reconciliation," Byalyatski told the court in a statement published online by the Viasna human rights organisation he co-founded in 1996. Byalyatski was already in jail and awaiting trial long before he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last October, along with Russian human rights organisation Memorial and Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. "The criminal case against us, the human rights activists of Viasna, is politically motivated," Byalyatski said. He has brushed off accusations of human rights abuses.

☆ Petr Pavel: who is the ex-army chief leading Czech presidential election race?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Jan Lopatka | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Polls make the bearded retired general, 61, the favourite to win a run-off vote on Friday and Saturday against billionaire ex-prime minister Andrej Babis, 68. "We got into several tense situations and he always managed them with deliberation and calm," retired Czech general Ales Opata, who served in Croatia and after with Pavel, told Reuters. He lead the Czech general staff from 2012, during Czech involvement in operations in Afghanistan, and in 2015 became NATO's military committee chair, an advisory position of the alliance's secretary-general. Jiri Sedivy, chief executive of the European Defence Agency and former Czech ambassador to NATO, said Pavel was a decision-maker who could take responsibility. After Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, Pavel represented NATO in a 2017 meeting with Russian Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

Jan 17 (Reuters) - Belarus put exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on trial in absentia on treason charges on Tuesday, in what the outspoken critic of veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko said would be a "farce and a show". Tsikhanouskaya, 40, fled Belarus after running against Lukashenko in the 2020 presidential election which was followed by mass protests over alleged electoral fraud. Tsikhanouskaya and several others were to be tried on charges of treason and attempting to seize power, the court said before the trial. Rights activists estimate about 1,500 people are in jail in Belarus on politically motivated charges. They could face from seven to 12 years in jail on charges of financing protests and smuggling money.

☆ Nobel Prize-winning rights defender goes on trial in Belarus
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski, who co-founded the Viasna human rights group, sits inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing in Minsk, Belarus January 5, 2023. The 60-year-old, who co-founded the Viasna human rights group, and two other representatives of the group who also went on trial watched from inside a metal cage before proceedings were adjourned until Friday. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties last October, but had been arrested in 2021 along with the two co-workers from Viasna. A fourth rights defender who fled Belarus is being prosecuted in absentia in the same case. "The allegations against our colleagues are linked to their human rights activity, the Viasna human rights centre's provision of help to the victims of politically motivated persecution," the group said of the case.

☆ Czech president: will appoint new members of central bank board on Dec. 14
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

PRAGUE, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Czech President Milos Zeman will appoint new members to the Czech National Bank board on Dec. 14, the president said on Sunday. President Zeman did not say who would replace two board members - Vice-Governor Marek Mora and board member Oldrich Dedek - whose terms expire in mid-February. "In the case of the new members of the central bank board, whom I will appoint on Wednesday, the appointment comes some time before they take office, that is a common practice," Zeman said in an interview broadcast live on Czech Radio. Under the Czech constitution, the president has sole power to appoint central bankers. Several board members, including Governor Ales Michl, suggested that inflation might be already peaking, in line with the central bank staff macroeconomic forecast.

☆ Nobel Peace Prize winners blast Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine shared their visions of a fairer world and denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine during Saturday’s award ceremony. “This would not be peace, but occupation.”Matviichuk repeated her earlier call for Putin — and Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who provided his country’s territory for Russian troops to invade Ukraine — to face an international tribunal. Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk delivers a speech during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony. Sergei Gapon / AFP via Getty ImagesMatviichuk was named a co-winner of the 2022 peace prize in October along with Russian human rights group Memorial and Ales Bialiatski, head of the Belarusian rights group Viasna. “I know exactly what kind of Ukraine would suit Russia and Putin — a dependent dictatorship,” he said.

SummarySummary Companies Ukraine, Russia, Belarus rights campaigners won awardPrize highlight importance of civil society for peaceByalyatski in jail, wife speaks for him at ceremonyOSLO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Russia wants to turn Ukraine into a "dependent dictatorship" like Belarus, the wife of jailed Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski said on Saturday upon receiving the prize on his behalf, speaking his words. "It highlights the dramatic situation and struggle for human rights in the country," she said, adding she was speaking her husband's words. Pinchuk has met her husband once since he was named a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, in prison, behind a glass wall, she told a news conference on Friday. "I know exactly what kind of Ukraine would suit Russia and Putin — a dependent dictatorship. Belarus and Russia are formally part of a "union state" and are closely allied economically and militarily.

☆ Nobel awards to take place in Stockholm with full glitz and glamour
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

NTB/Haakon Mosvold Larsen via REUTERSSTOCKHOLM, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Nobel laureates congregated in the Swedish capital Stockholm on Saturday for the first fully in-person award ceremonies complete with a formal banquet since the COVID-19 pandemic that curtailed events in the past two years. Five of the six Nobel prizes are awarded in Stockholm every year after a nomination process that is kept secret for the next 50 years. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo where separate festivities are held. The Nobel Foundation has also snubbed the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Jailed Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski, Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.

☆ Yan Rachinsky: Russian Nobel Peace laureate slams Putin's war on Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Allegra Goodwin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Russian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yan Rachinsky blasted President Vladimir Putin’s “insane and criminal” war on Ukraine in his acceptance speech in the Norwegian capital Oslo on Saturday. Representatives of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureates collect the awards at Oslo City Hall, from left: Natalia Pinchuk, the wife of Ales Bialiatski, Yan Rachinsky, chairman of the International Memorial Board and Oleksandra Matviychuk, head of the Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties. Markus Schreiber/APUkrainian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk called for an international tribunal to Putin and Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko to justice over “war crimes” in her acceptance speech. Human rights groups from Russia and Ukraine – Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties – were officially awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 on Saturday, along with the jailed Belarusian advocate Ales Bialiatski. The new laureates were honored for “an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power” in their respective countries.

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☆ Britain's businesses are 'running out of fight' as country faces longest-ever recession
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

U.K. businesses are bracing for a difficult winter amid soaring inflation and higher energy bills. Andrew Matthews - Pa Images | Pa Images | Getty ImagesLONDON — The doors to The 25, a Torquay-based boutique bed and breakfast on the U.K.'s southwest coast, are now closed for the winter period. With rising energy bills and higher costs piling pressure on U.K. businesses, owner Andy Banner-Price has deferred reopening by a month until well into the spring. The Bank of England has warned that the U.K. is facing its longest recession since records began a century ago. Huw Fairclough | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesUntil now, Holliday said his business has been "taking the hit" and absorbing increased production and energy costs to buffer customers.

☆ Czech central bank vice governor: More rate hikes needed
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Mora has voted in favour of raising rates throughout the central bank's year-long tightening cycle, which increased the main rate by 675 basis points in total and ended in June. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterMora said that inflation should return to the central bank's 2% target fast. Mora said the central bank should hike rates by at least 50 basis points at its next meeting on Nov. 3. Michl took the helm of the central bank in July. Mora said that he would not seek another term at the central bank board after his current one expires on Feb. 13, 2023.

People walk through the City of London financial district during rush hour in London, Britain, October 3, 2022. Asia's main markets had struggled overnight but Europe's STOXX 600 (.STOXX) made a 0.5% early gain as both the pound and UK government bonds rallied in London. Invesco's director of macro research Ben Jones said the UK's volatility would remain a key focus for global markets. In currency markets, the dollar remains king as investors price in U.S. rates peaking around 5%. The rise of the dollar and global bond yields have been a drag for gold, which was stuck at $1,648 an ounce .

☆ Factbox: Winners of 2022 Nobel prizes
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nobel Prize for Peace - Jailed Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski, Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize amid a war in their region that is the worst conflict in Europe since World War Two. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterNobel Prize for Literature– French author Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature for "the courage and clinical acuity" in her largely autobiographical books examining personal memory and social inequality. Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create new compounds and that offer insight into cell biology. Nobel Prize in Physics - Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments in quantum mechanics that laid the groundwork for rapidly-developing new applications in computing and cryptography. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day people evolved from extinct ancestors at the dawn of human history.

☆ 3 U.S.-based economists given Nobel Prize for work on banks
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

STOCKHOLM — This year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to the former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, and two U.S.-based economists, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, “for research on banks and financial crises.”The prize was announced Monday by the Nobel panel at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Last year, half of the award went to David Card for his research on how the minimum wage, immigration and education affect the labor market. The Nobel Economics Prize was awarded to a US trio for their contributions on explaining the role of banks in the economy. French author Annie Ernaux won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize went to jailed Belarus human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties on Friday.

☆ Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski and two human rights groups win 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-07 | by ( Jenni Reid | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Belarusian human rights activis Ales Bialiatski speaks after he and the Belarusian human rights organization Vjasna were awarded the 2020 Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm on December 3, 2020. Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee said he had "devoted his life to promoting democracy and peaceful development in his home country." The Center for Civil Liberties was set up in 2007 to support Ukrainian civil society, promote human rights and campaign for full democracy in the country. The final recipient, Russian rights group Memorial, was founded in 1987 in the former Soviet Union to honor victims of political oppression.

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Persons: Ginecologii, paterni, Snigur Organizations: Universitatea Leiden

☆ Olanda reintroduce restricţii, după creșterea majoră a cazurilor de COVID-19
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-10 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: repubblica.itOlanda reintroduce restricţii, după creșterea majoră a cazurilor de COVID-19Olanda reintroduce restricţii asupra funcţionării cluburilor de noapte, restaurantelor şi festivalurilor de muzică, la numai două săptămâni după ce aceste măsuri fuseseră ridicate, în urma creşterii accelerae a cazurilor de COVID-19, mai ales în rândul tinerilor. Premierul Mark Rutte a precizat că restricţiile se aplică de sâmbătă şi vor rămâne în vigoare până pe 14 august. Preocupante sunt în special focarele pornite din discoteci şi creşterea infectărilor cu varianta Delta a coronavirusului, factori care au contribuit la creşterea infectărilor. Ţară cu circa 17 milioane de locuitori, Olanda a înregistrat în ultimele 24 de ore circa 5.500 de noi cazuri de COVID-19, după ce cu o săptămână în urmă se înregistrau 700-800 de cazuri pe zi, scrie Digi24.roNumai într-o discotecă din localitatea Enschede cel puţin 200 de persoane s-au infectat într-o singură noapte, iar la primul festival organizat după lockdown-ul din pandemie, pe 2 şi 3 iulie, cel puţin 12 participanţi au intrat deja infectaţi şi nu se ştie câte ale persoane au infectat la rândul lor dintre cele circa 10.000 care au trecut pe acolo în fiecare zi.

Persons: Premierul Mark Rutte Organizations: Preocupante Locations: Olanda, Enschede

☆ Medici: Covid-19 lasă efecte asupra sănătății după vindecare; Anxietatea și depresia, principalele simptome
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-10 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +4 min

Sursa foto: jurnal.mdMedici: Covid-19 lasă efecte asupra sănătății după vindecare; Anxietatea și depresia, principalele simptomeMulți pacienți care s-au vindecat de COVID-19 rămân cu sechele, iar stările precum depresia, anxietatea, vederea încețoșată, durerile de cap sau durerile musculare, sunt o serie de efecte adverse pe termen lung. Stop Pandemie!” de la Jurnal TV, medicul psihoterapeut Andrei Eșanu și medicul neurolog Olga Gavriliuc au declarat că simptomele cu care se confruntă unii pacienți după tratamentul post-covid, pot dura săptămâni sau chiar luni. Pe lângă faptul că virusul poate afecta organe, cum ar fi plămânii, inima și creierul, stările negative precum depresia și anxietatea, cele mai frecvente la pacienții care s-au tratat, pot crește riscul apariției problemelor de sănătate pe termen lung. „Noi știam despre depresie și anxietate până la pandemie și despre faptul că era a doua cauză de morbiditate la nivel mondial, dar acum se arată că cel puțin de două ori mai des se întâlnește și depresia și anxietatea. Nu este în puterea noastră să controlăm noul coronavirus, dar putem stăpâni reacțiile și stările emoționale, susține medicul psihoterapeut.

Persons: Andrei Eșanu, Olga Gavriliuc Organizations: Pfizer Locations: Chișinău

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Persons: Berbec, Fecioară Organizations: Taur, Gemeni

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