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The controversial ribbons are handed out at the fuel stations owned by Russian oil company TНК-ВР.
Foreign beer will disappear from some shops for the period of the ice hockey championship.
The spring of 1945 is an eternal symbol of our ancestors’ heroic deed, he noted.
Human rights defender Martin Uggla from Sweden on May 7 was not allowed to enter Belarus in order to watch a wold ice hockey championship match.
Euroopt discounter calls off the Ribbon of Saint George action, while ProStore hypermarket stops hand-outs in line with management's order.
The Belarusian President announced it at the today’s meeting with Russian PM Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow.
The multistore has not explained the reason for it.
Andrei Dzmitryeu from Speak the Truth civic campaign makes a video appeal against "drug war" in Belarus.
Euroradio has asked passers-by about the meaning of ribbons of Saint George and whether Belarusians should wear them (audio).
