The expert thinks that the devaluation of information for people is connected with the significant changes in the mood of the society. The majority of the Belarusians do not have positive expectations for the future (firstly, because of the traumatic experience of currency devaluation and inflation).

Aliaksandr Solap, activist of the Tell the Truth campaign who was denied registration as a candidate on moral grounds, is going to sue the officials of the Central Election Commission and Slutsk constituency commission, the Infa-Kurier regional newspaper reports.

The law does not provide for observers’ involvement in the submission of election records to constituency election commissions, says the Central Election Commission in its reply to observer Ales Kaputski, registered in Maladechna constituency No. 73.

Vadzim Kuzmin, retired officer and member of the Fair World left party running for Parliament in Vitsebsk constituency No. 19, says he is appalled at the obstacles he has to overcome during the election campaign.

The Belarusian Popular Front (BPF) and the United Civic Party (UCP) formally decided Wednesday to withdraw their parliamentary candidates, explaining that the election process was not transparent and democratic, and authorities were ignoring their demands to release political prisoners.

September 10-16, 2012

Valery Rybchanka, candidate representing the Fair World Party in Zhlobin constituency, has not been authorized to hold a meeting with voters on the territory of the major Belarusian Steel Works.

Ihar Maslouski, member of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) running for Parliament in Brest constituency No. 2, says the authorized election campaigning locations cannot be used for meeting with voters.

Some 15 state-owned printing firms, as well as a number of private ones, have refused to print campaign leaflets of candidates representing the Belarusian Popular Front Party, the BPF’s press-service reports.

Leanid Padbiaretski, member of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Hramada) and activist of the Tell the Truth campaign running for Parliament in Mahiliou constituency No. 84, has received an official warning for allegedly staging a picket in an unauthorized place.

33 out of 68 election addresses by parliamentary candidates representing the United Civil Party of Belarus have been taken of air on state-owned TV and radio channels, says the UCP spokesperson Mrs. Hanna Krasulina.

Ales Straltsou, member of the Belarusian Popular Front Party running for Parliament in Hrodna constituency No. 52, has received an official warning for allegedly producing an election poster having no output data.

On 13 September, parliamentary candidate Valery Karankevich relieved a letter from Khotsimsk district executive committee, saying that administrative charges had been brought against the candidate.

Adam Vashkou, candidate for Parliament running in Rechytsa constituency, had a meeting with employees of the district’s forestry during their working hours, says independent observer Valery Putsitski.

The election posters of Mrs. Zinaida Mandrouskaya, member of the House of Representatives running for another term in Pinsk constituency No. 14, have appeared in a number of the town’s shops and state-owned organizations, observers of the Human Rights Defenders for Free Elections campaign report.