Hlybokaye district: public protest against closure of library
The district authorities decided to destroy the library and recreation house in the village of Prypernaye. This made the local inhabitants angry.
In Hlybokaye district,
educational and cultural establishments are closed almost each year in the
villages with little population. However, the population of Prypernaye makes
216 people, there are many young people, so the local inhabitants bravely stood
against the authorities' intentions. They were most angry because of the fact
that no one warned them. Even the librarian found out that her workplace would
be liquidated only today.
Journalists Uladzimir Skrabatun
and Zmitser Lupach called
head of the ideological department Mikhail
Charapkouski who is the deputy of the district council in this area.
Besides, he promised to restore this building in his pre-electoral leaflet,
which preserved in the library.
Now Charapkouski says that the building is in the state of emergency and must
be demolished. However, they suspended the demolition until the books are
transported out of the building.