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CHRONOLOGY OF THE STATE REPRESSIONS AGAINST PROF. MANAEV AND INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STUDIES (IISEPS)

1. March 2002 – letter from the President’s Administration with demand “to remove from the rented space” in the state-run building on Moskovskaya St. 18, where IISEPS rented apartment during seven years

2. September 2003 – first Official warning to IISEPS from the Ministry of Justice “About inadmissibility of law violation” (for discrepancy of legal address to a factual one)

3. October 2004 – subpoena of IISEPS Director Prof. Manaev to Minister of Justice on the occasion of violating by the IISEPS the Law “On Public Associations”

4. November 2004 – second Official warning to IISEPS from the Ministry of Justice “About inadmissibility of law violation” (for refusal to present a filled copy of questionnaire of public opinion poll)

5. November 2004 – subpoena of Prof. Manaev to the General Prosecutor Office on the occasion of conducting exit polls during Constitutional referendum in October 2004

6. December 2004 – night KGB search at the IISEPS Office

7. January 2005 – lawsuit “IISEPS vs. Ministry of Justice” in the Supreme Court

8. April 2005 – liquidation of the IISEPS by the Supreme Court on the suit of the Ministry of Justice on the article 57 of the Civil Code

9. August 2005 – subpoena of Prof. Manaev to the Department of Mass Actions of the Minsk City Interior Ministry on the occasion of the IISEPS quarterly briefing at the Lithuanian Embassy

10. December 2005 – subpoena of Prof. Manaev to the General Prosecutor Office and handing of a first Official warning “About inadmissibility of law violation” (violation of the electoral legislations)

11. January 2006 – temporary suspension of the Belarusian Think Tanks Association activity on the suit of the Ministry of Justice on the article 25 of the Law “On Public Associations”

12. June 2006 – subpoena of Prof. Manaev to the General Prosecutor Office and handing of a second Official warning “About inadmissibility of law violation” (with threat to use a new Article 369-1 of the Criminal Code “Discrediting of the Republic of Belarus” stipulated imprisonment up to two years)

13. August 2006 – liquidation of the Belarusian Think Tanks Association by the Supreme Court on the suit of the Ministry of Justice on the article 57 of the Civil Code

14. April 2007 – subpoena of Prof. Manaev to the General Prosecutor Office on the occasion of organizing the National Conference “Belarus and “wider Europe”, and followed publications in independent press

15. July 2008 – the State Control Committee’s order to Prof. Manaev “within 5 days to present information about all incomes and property” for the last two years, and notification “that in case of misconduct of this order you will be charged according to the conditions of laws of the Republic of Belarus”

16. October 2009 – the State Tax Committee’s order to Prof. Manaev “as a Chairman of the Belarusian Think Tanks to submit documents about activity of this Association including bookkeeping and tax records”, despite BTT was shut down the Supreme Court on the suit of the Ministry of Justice in August 2006

17. May 2010 – the State Tax Committee’s order to Prof. Manaev “to prove observance of Tax Law, and with this regard to submit all tax records since 2000”

18. June 2010 – leadership of the Belarusian State University (Rector Academician S. Ablameyko and Vice Rector Prof. V. Klyunya) following order from KGB and Administration made pressure on Prof. Manaev “within 10 days to submit a self-resignation statement” despite of 40 years of his service (including student years) for this institutions, and 1.5 years before his retirement

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