В ночь на 25 июля в Минске был совершен акт вандализма против посольства Литвы в Беларуси.

Как сообщила “Нашай Ніве”
второй секретарь посольства Кристина Паканите, ночью в здание
посольства была брошена бутылка с краской, листовки
национал-большевистской партии, а символикой НБП разрисован забор.

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The Coalition Against Hate received recognition as UCSJ leaders briefed the congressional joint Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission) both on the coalition, the current status of hate crimes in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and the importance of the impunity of hate crimes to assessing rule of law and to the conduct of foreign policy.

UN racism rapporteur Doudou Diene, another witness, concluded, "There is an unmistakable resurgence in racist violence conducted, primarily, but not exclusively, by neo-Nazi groups."

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Nickolai Butkevich and I will be briefing the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe on Tuesday, November 6, 2007. We are honored to be sitting on the same panel as Dr. Dou Dou Diene, the U.N.'s Rapporteur on Racism, and Dr. Tiffany Lightbourn from the Department of Homeland Security.

We have prepared an extensive Briefing Paper for presentation during the briefing. The Paper entitled "Hate Crimes, Rule of Law and Foreign Policy Concerning the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Belarus"  (http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/UCSJHateCrimesBriefingPaper.pdf) is one we are proud to present to the Commission and to the public as it brings to light the impunity that perpatrators of hate crimes receive in the former Soviet Union.

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