Brest officials are recommended to oppose "forced Belarusification"
Private socio-political weekly "Nasha Niva"
received obtained the following document:
"The first deputy head of the Administration of the President of the
Republic of Belarus A.Radzkou applied to you with a request in 2012 to
implement the errand of the head of the state, given on 24 February 2012,
during a counsel of the National musical project "Eurofest":
- to provide the optimization of expenditures of the local budges for
restoration and reconstruction of the historical and cultural valuables,
staging of theatric plays, films, concert programs, cultural and entertainment
measures;
- to take concrete measures for non-admission of holding the policy of forced
Belarusification by heads of state bodies and other organizations and
artificial limitation of the use of the Russian language in their
activities."
The paper is signed by the deputy head of the administrative department of the
Brest Regional Executive Committee, the head of the department of
organizational and office work Volha Klimakhovich.
A journalist of the newspaper phoned to the executive committee to find whether
the document was real. Volha Klimakhovich confirmed it, but didn't answer the
question as to what concrete measures will be taken to prevent the "forced
Belarusification" and "artificial limitation of the use of the
Russian language".