Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently warned of a \"huge embassy in Managua,\" adding: \"You can only imagine what that's for.\" By David V. Johnson Have you heard that Iran built a mega-embassy in Nicaragua? Word of this development

On June 23rd, Defense Secretary Robert Gates created (see document attached)a new military command dedicated to cyber security, reflecting Obama's plans to centralize and elevate computer security as a major national-security issue, exacerbating about military control of civilian computer systems.

An independent board of inquiry will consider a complaint of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and sexual harassment.

The Afghan War veteran was released from a prison in Akrestsin Street in Minsk on Thursday.

European Belarus" activist has told how he was beaten up in the police department of Maskouski district after the arrest of Solidarity.

An activist of the civil campaign "European Belarus" Zmitser Barodka was detained on July 16 before the rally of solidarity near the St. Joseph's church in Minsk began.

Russia's chief sanitary official Gennady Onishchenko charged the Belarusian authorities with violating Russian quality standards.

On July 16, on the Day of Solidarity, a youth leader and former political prisoner Andrei Kim was detained and beaten up.

Militia officers detained activists of "European Belarus", BCD, and "Young Belarus", who hang out a banner and a white-red-white flag on a bride over the river Dvina in the center of Vitsebsk.

Activist of the Brest branch of "Young Front" carried out an information action on the Day of Solidarity.

Despite of mass arrests of oppositionists in the centre of Minsk, "European Belarus" activists have managed to hold a few rallies.

The lawyer has met the political prisoner who is recovering after the hunger strike which lasted for three months.

The congress is supposed to gather about 34o delegates and more than 40 guests from almost 20 countries.

Valdas Adamkus, Vaclav Havel, Lech Valesa, Vaira Vike-Freiberga and other European politicians stand for necessity to strengthen ties between the United States and Central and Eastern Europe.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka knowledge's by his in the cases of disappeared Belarusian politicians can cause a large international scandal.

Vitsebsk human rights activist Leanid Svetsik got the biggest fine ever given by courts of the region.

On the Day of Solidarity representatives of the civil society of Belarus held a rally in Vilnius in memory of abducted politicians.

Freedom House human rights organization issued an annual survey of political and civil liberties in the world.

Ten years after Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) proposed a new bill to expand existing hate crimes statutes, the Senate voted 63 - 28 last night to pass the Matthew Shepard Act.The bill is the most progressive piece of Congressional hate

President Obama delivered a message to Congress in a speech on Friday, encouraging them to push towards the August goal of passing his health care plan through both houses, reported Reuters."Now is not the time to slow down," Obama stated,