17.05.2001
The information message of the strike committee of the Businessmen of the Republic of Belarus.
17.05.2001 the bulletin "Businessman" ¹12 was distributed at many markets including Minsk’s "Dynamo" by the citizens whom nobody knows; they informed the businessmen on the transfer of the national political strike of the businessmen from May,18 to 29 2001.
It is a complete provocation organised at probable participation of the special services and our former colleagues on the trade-union movement.
The bulletin "Businessman" ¹12 as for 17.05.2001 has not been printed by us. It is necessary to arrest and to hand the persons distributing a false bulletin over to the bodies of militia.
The 18.05.2001 strike is to be held at any coincidence without paying attention to any provocations and the reprisals concerning the leaders of the strike committee (details are in the bulletin "Businessman").
Funny! The authorities are afraid of us very much. For the first time for all history of the opposition movement they forge opposition publications. It means that our bulletin stands something!
As for the businessmen who like the policy of the state in the field of development of the business and they will work, they, apparently, will be checked first of all by tax and other inspectors during 2001.
Valery Levonevsky
