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...reputation for bravely taunting Milosevic's authoritarian regime by parading a giant effigy of the Serbian strongman in a prison suit and charging people a dinar to punch it. Some 9,000 activists were jailed or detained. Since then, the group has hooked up with student protesters in Belarus, Georgia and Ghana, among other countries. Ukraine's "Pora was not created by Otpor," Sikman says. "Pora is a homegrown movement that existed before they came...
...Early last year, U.S. Customs agents based in Newark, New Jersey, infiltrated a network of child pornography websites run by criminals in Belarus, a country in the former Soviet bloc. The agents had compiled a record of more than 70,622 transactions from voyeurs around the world who had logged on to buy the pornography using their credit cards. The Americans passed details of the transactions thought to have originated in Australia to the Australian High Tech Crime Centre, hosted by the Australian Federal Police; the AHTCC traced addresses for the suspects on the list, confirmed their identities and forwarded...
...compensation for property lost when they were forced out of territories handed to Poland after 1945 - a claim angrily rejected by Poles. "I would like to underline that it was not us that started this spiral. It was the other side," said Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka. Permanent Presence BELARUS President Alexander Lukashenko announced a referendum on a constitutional amendment to allow him to run for a third term. Elected in 1994, Lukashenko won a referendum in 1996 to extend his initial five-year term by two years; Western observers criticized his 2001 re-election as unfair. Terror Continuum INDONESIA...
...Stajic, the lead investigator. And Polish police, relying on tips from their German counterparts, shut down a major operation in February in central Poland, confiscating €200,000 in fake notes. Investigations continue in all these countries, and police say new operations have sprung up in Lithuania, Moldova and Belarus. Counterfeiters have started operating in Western Europe as well. Just two weeks ago police in Marseilles detained a 43-year-old ex-con on suspicion of printing some 30,000 fake €50 and €100 bills that were ready for distribution. The largest bust since the advent...
Tatyana Bezuglova ’05, who just transferred to Harvard from Belarus, says she is surprised at the level of regulation smokers face in the United States...