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[abroeck@v2.nl (Andreas Broeckmann)]

From:          "Igor A. Tavgen" <igor@tavgen.minsk.by>



Dear colleagues,
Thank you very much for your interest in Belarus and in particular Internet
in Belarus.
I made  a request to our two organizations which are responsible for
regulating Internet users
in Belarus:
the Deputy Director of the Belarusian Security Council's State Information
Security Center (The Presidential administration department) and the Head
of Computer Sciences department of the Belarusian
Ministry of Communications replied that the report in PC World Belarus
Magazine #2, !996 about "the Presidential administration's special
instruction obliging all Internet users..." is not true.
The editor-in chief of PC World Belarus Magazine told me by phone that it
was a joke because this issue of the magazine was for April 1, and made
excuses for the poor April Fool's joke.

Sincerely yours
Igor Tavgen
Networking Program Coordinator
Belarusian Soros Foundation




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Date:          Thu, 30 May 1996 15:58:49 -0700
From:          Alexei Shulgin <easylife@glas.apc.org>
Organization:  Moscow WWWArt Centre
To:            Pit Schultz <pit@contrib.de>
Cc:            nettime-l@desk.nl, syndicate@aec.at
Subject:       New regulations for the Internet in Belarus

May 23, 1996

New regulations for the Internet in Belarus.

The President administration has issued a special instruction, obliging
all Internet users in the country to register at a police. Everyone who
has an e-mail account in a state or non-state net division must register
at [...]
According to official version, these regulations are related to "struggle
against anti-state information and suppression of anti-people
provocations".
The registration term is set up in 30 days. The trespassers will be
seriously punished, though the text of the instruction contains no
details on it. According to top administration authorities, this new
instruction will contribute to "the healthy development of the
information [...]"

PC World Belarus magazine
#2, 1996




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