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¹6 December 2000 |
From the editors
The
chairman of the Grodno Urban centre of protection of the rights of a
customer. The
businessman. The
chairman of the Belorussian Trade union of the Businessmen The
chairman of Grodno informational-legal centre The
organiser of mass local and all-republican actions of the protest against
impoverishment of the citizens The
initiator of a number of the charitable actions «OUR CITY» Valery
Levonevsky (Photo) He was born in 1963, is married, has
four children, is from family of workers, 7 years worked as a worker, then as
an engineer, united his work with the businessman’s activity, he is a native citizen
of Belarus, he was born and was brought up in Grodno, acts for the
independent sovereign state, for friendly relations with Russia and with
West, in April, 1999 was convicted by the court of Leninsky district of
Grodno for 13 day of administrative arrest for organisation of the meeting to
protect the rights of customers. He is under a constant
"guardianship" of the state (searches at the office and home,
constant arrests and detentions, calls to the prosecutor's offices, militia,
tax and other bodies, confiscation of property, outside supervision,
listening to phone calls etc.). In 2000 he was refused in registration as the
candidate in the deputy of the Chamber of the National Assembly of the
Republic of Belarus because he did not indicate a wood building at the dacha
of the parents (the toilet) in the declaration about the incomes. He has the own program of revival of the
economics of the Republic of Belarus Dear
citizens of Minsk! During the half of the year we work to
create a new political force – party of the middle class. Those who want to
take part in a design of the program, title and symbolic of the party can
call on telephones 260-97-75 in Minsk, Grodno (0152) , 72-61-19. The
party of the middle class is a party of the businessmen, highly qualified
workers, teachers, employees, chairmen of firms, enterprises, organisations,
farms etc., i.e. all those who is capable to think, for whom «to eat and to
drink» are not main things in life, who want to build democratic,
economically developed and independent state. We want the majority of our
citizens to be wealthy enough, to have the house, constant income and
outlook. The social system where a man receives beggarly reward for his work
has not the right to exist. We can and should begin to act for the
value of our children. Six years «of reforms from Grirorich» have led the
country to poverty and drunkenness of everybody. The radical nationalist
party such as BNF and UCP represent no more than 0,5 % of all citizens of the
Republic of Belarus who belong to the opposition. Their aggressiveness and
the intolerance to other judgement repulses people from them. Yes, we some
times conducted the joint actions of the protest. But we heard nothing except
for "dirty words" and such slogan as «imperialists and moskalies
should go off». It is one of the main reasons why we have not supported
«March of Freedom - 3». At March of Freedom - 1-2 we were simply "substituted" and used as
«cannon-fodder». The gap between them and us continues to become greater. The
main reason is that BNF, present UCP and different "initiatives"
are torn off from the people of Belarus. A difference is in ideologies. We
want to create the conditions at
which everybody could realise the capabilities to create material and other
values for himself and his family. They, Bolsheviks, know only how to take
away and to divide. Peer at the faces of these people. They were already at
the office. They are former members of Comsomol and party functionaries.
Their parties are small and substantially represent interests of several men
instead of us with you. An inner structure and order in these parties
resemble a sect. Sometimes opposition newspapers write: «The largest
opposition party of Belarus were united». But they forget to point out one
small detail. The active workers in all these parties taken together are no
more than 1000 men. A. Lukashenko is
a product of philosophy of Bolsheviks . He also acts as a Bolshevik. The
decrees, reprisals, prohibitions, empty promises. The leaders from radical
nationalistic opposition (BNF and UCP) are also Bolsheviks in the majority
and even "former" members of a team of A. Lukashenko. They have
rather vague representation how to decide our problems. A. Lukashenko is the only first stage on
our way of struggle with Bolsheviks. It is necessary to look much further.
The basis of any civilised society is a hard work instead of
"hack-work". And this hard work is well paid. The results of work
should be reliably protected and first of all by the state. A problem of
Belarus is that we are invoked to work not taking into account two other
factors. I.e. they pay us beggarly salary and can take everything that was
earned by us and our grandparents away at any moment to the formal and
far-fetched reasons. Have A. Lukashenko executed even one pre-election
promise? Do you think that his former team, and now radical opposition, will
execute? They know how to deceive people. It is the whole know-how. Remember,
how beautifully we were deceived in
1994. Now they try to impose us the unified candidate from the radical
opposition. We also stand for the unified candidate from opposition. But from
the opposition and not from its minor part. Today more than 4 millions
citizens of Belarus belong to the opposition. And what, will 0,5% (some
thousand men) from BNF dictate us their will? We shall achieve the purpose
when we shall do the policy and not to trust to its populists even if they
look well. Our purposes and problems absolutely
differ from their. They struggle with the Russian imperialism,
"fight" after coming to the office, set up the philosophy and
spiritual values. We stand for friendly relations both with east and with
west, for two state languages, for respect of the common rights of a citizen
of the Republic of Belarus, for the independent and neutral state. November 23 many from you came to the
markets and saw seen empty counters. It was the one-day national strike of
the businessmen organised by the Belorussian Trade union of the Businessmen. More
than 150 thousand men took part in the strike. Each businessman pays
different payments from 30 up to 250 dollars per one month, feeds the family,
works without week-days asking nothing from the state. The state has entered
new rules because of which the goods are the markets should rise in price on
20-60 of %. It is a reason of the conflict. Besides the different controlling
bodies permanently extort bribes from businessmen, insult and degrade them. A
man who honestly pays taxes is defenceless before an outrage of a number of
inspectors. The businessmen operated with figures: if even partially the
state removes some limitations and army of the inspectors, the goods at the
markets would fall in price on 10-30 of % and budget would economy money to
pay salary to teachers and doctors. December 18, 2000 (Monday) at 14.00 at
Bangalor square in Minsk the businessmen plan to conduct meeting to protect
economic and social rights of the citizens. The headquarters and team to move out
Valery Levonevsky as the candidate in the Presidents of the Republic of
Belarus is formed. To move out the
candidate in the presidents it is necessary to collect 100.000 signatures.
Those who want to support the independent candidate in the presidents can
call (0152) , (017) 260-97-75. The opposition today is the
businessmen, people working on hiring, workers, employees, students,
employees of power structures and many others, i.e. approximately 60 % of the
population of the Republic of Belarus. Therefore a unified candidate in the
presidents will be introduced by us (b the team of Valery Levonevsky with
pleasure will support more worthy candidature, if you have such). We are
substantial opposition. From our point of view, the unified candidate should
be elected from the several candidatures prior to the beginning of the
presidential "rapid motion". Today our problem is to create a
strong team which can play an
essential role in the change of economic policy of the state and in the
building of the future democratic society of Belarus. The
open letter (it was published earlier in the bulletins "Businessman" and «Our
City»)
To the chiefs of
bodies of the state authority and management. To the employees of power and law-enforcement bodies of the Republic
of Belarus. To the civil employees
of the Republic of Belarus. Dear sirs. In the beginning of September, 2000, in
one of the regional executive committees the chief of the region spent the
meeting on which the questions connected with the elective company were
considered. As one of the witnesses of this meeting said the chief of the
region declared at this meeting addressing to the subordinates: «Do not you
see who pretends to be the leaders? Do not you understand that if they come
into office, it will be the end for us?» Further the chief of the region gave the
detailed concrete instructions to the chiefs of the local executive
committees and chairmen of district elective commissions how to
"counteract" to the election of the objectionable candidates. We
also know that a special confidential plan on the "elimination" of
applicants who are disloyal to the today's authority exists, the list of the
persons which should not be the deputies at any circumstances is made. The
appropriate officials on the personal responsibility are informed: whom they
should not allow to become the deputies. To realise this plan all the
departments, all power structures and special services are involved, against
many candidates in the deputies who have opposite views “the operative
measures” are carried out, there telephone conversations are listened to and
they shadowed. Being under the complete control of the president the bodies
of the office of the public prosecutor and the courts, obediently carry out
”tasks" not to let the political figures who have the opposite views
participate in the elective company instead of the real supervision of the
observance of the laws on the realisation of the election. As a result of the
confidential «complex of measures» which was spent practically all candidates
in the deputies, independent from the authority, have appeared not registered
because of the different formal reasons. The executive authority, thus, has
deprived the people of the right to choose and it is impossible to call the
forthcoming election honour and democratic. Now it is possible with complete
reliance to say that it will be not the election but "FARCE". We disagree with some chiefs of the
executive authority and we think that in the Republic of Belarus the
principle of the leadership of the right should be established. The only source of the state authority
and bearer of the sovereignty in the Republic of Belarus is the people and it
means that all bodies of the state authority are obliged to ensure people
with the right to choose when the election are realised. The state, all its bodies and the
officials should work within the limits of the Constitution and legislative
acts accepted according to it. Any direct or indirect restriction of the
suffrages of the citizens is inadmissible and should be punished according to
the law. Breaking article 49 of the Elective code
of the Republic of Belarus the chiefs "of vertical" distribute the
obviously false information discrediting the candidate in the deputies of the
Chamber of the Representatives who have the opposite points of view. Their
applications that after the change of the authority "representatives of
the opposition" will punish the present civil employees are the
fabrications based on the slogans of the separate considerably adjusted
representatives of BNF and their supporters. Such applications are made with
the purpose: to frighten you by the forthcoming change of the authority and
to force to break the existing legislation (including crimes) to save the
present authority. In this open letter we, the politicians
of new generation would like to explain some of these questions. We struggle for the creation of a civil
society based on the democratic principles, on the basis of the division of
the authority into legislative, executive and judicial. Neither me nor my supporters do not
assume that in the future it is necessary to call all present civil employees
to account. Only the separate considerably adjusted figures of BNF say about
"the lustration" but they do not have anything in common with my
supporters. We are also against their coming into office. The officials of all levels will be
necessary at any authority. At any authority it will be necessary to protect
the legal order, to control the objects of managing and life-support. The majority
of the today's employees "of vertical", MIA, CSS, Public
prosecutor’s office are the good experts of the business and they
successfully cope with the duties assigned on them by the law. We think that this category of the
people are also citizens of the Republic of Belarus and they also have
families and a lot of own problems. The serious up-datings in the control
system of the state are necessary. Without the qualified state device it
cannot be made. Therefore we also hope on your support. We are not going to dismiss anyone
because of our love or dislike for this or that politician or to the party. Moreover, we think that the professional
civil employee should get more money than today from the state to which he
serves. Inevitably there will be a change of the
authority, inevitably there will be a necessity to realise the democratic
reforms in the society, reforms in the economy and agriculture. That
experience of the management which the today's workers of the state device
have will be necessary to realise them. They will be necessary for the future
reorganisation of our long-suffering state. According to the information we
have more than 90 % of the workers - civil employees does not approve the
policy spent by the present president but by the virtue of the created state
system of the suppression of people who have opposite point of view they are
compelled to keep silent about it. I emphasise, that I personally shall act
against any reprisals as it will not bring any boons to our people. I think that
in the 20th- century we have already exceeded all
"limits" of self-destruction. Our purpose is: to achieve that our
parliament would be the legislative body in which our collected problems will
be discussed, and in which, really, the search of ways of the exit from the
delayed political, economic crisis and international isolation will be
carried out discussing the various offers. I think that the government and the
parliament should have all rights to put major state problems for the open discussion.
The inadmissible is the fact that "performances" on BT show only
one "monologues" of the president and the members of the government
and parliament sit having lowered heads. Are the businesses really so good in
the country what they have nothing to say? Is the land of Belarus really so
"poor" that it born only one politician who “knows" when is
necessary to "sow", to “harvest”, when and what to make? Does
nobody really "understand" anything? For what then we have the
parliament and the government, if it is "forbidden" to express
their point of view on the processes occurring in the country? My supporters and me have what to tell
on all sore questions of our state. We do not make secrets of our purpose. We
want peace and well-being to our people and we think that it can be achieved
by different ways what has been done during last 6 years. My supporters and me shall further
participate in the elective companies in spite of the fact that anybody from
my supporters is not registered as the candidate in the deputies. The form of
our participation will be changed. The life does not come to an end on
October 15, 2000. I address to you as to the citizens of
our republic. We together with you in the near future should find an exit
from this uneasy situation in which people of Belarus are. We are not
enemies, and we want peace and well-being to our people. Yes, we offer
another way of the development of the country than the way chosen by the
present president. Yes, we say that the past 6 years are a downtime. Show the
civil liability, let people himself make the choice in the conditions of open
and honour pre-election struggle, if you really love people and wish them
goods. Think, as you can, being at your own places, help the voters express
their will free. We are ready to co-operate with you in it. Yours faithfully Valery Levonevsky. 230005,. Grodno - 5, subscriber box 63
(for the letters) , http://levonevski2001.by-ru.info E-mail: Levonevski2000@mail.ru Pager tel. (0152) subscriber
95200 P.S. I ask to acquaint all employees of
the ministries, committees, departments, executive committees, departments
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