Additional IIHF Requirements for Belarus 01/13/21
(ATR) Belarus and Latvia co-hosting the 2021 men’s world championship remains the “first option” for the International Ice Hockey Federation.
Alexander Lukashenko meets with René Fasel on January 11. (Keystone/Nikolai Petrov/Pool)
But IIHF president René Fasel said the federation has told the Belarusian government what it must do if it wants to remain a co-host for the event, which runs from May 21-June 6.
Fasel, in a question-and-answer format on the federation website, provided details following a meeting earlier this week with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.
The IIHF delegation also met with Roman Golovchenko, the Belarus Prime Minister and chair of the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Organizing Committee, Sergei Kovalchuk, the Minister of Sports, and representatives from the Belarus Ice Hockey Association.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the Catholic Archbishop of Minsk, the Vatican said on Sunday, after he spoke out against the Belarus government and violence against protestors.
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ROME, Jan 3, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the Catholic Archbishop of Minsk, the Vatican said on Sunday, after he spoke out against the Belarus government and violence against protestors.
Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz was allowed to return to Belarus last month after being stopped from re-entering the country since August following a holiday in Poland where he called for the resignation of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.
It was not immediately clear whether Kondrusiewicz’ resignation was expected.
The Vatican said in a short statement that the resignation was in accordance with a code that allows bishops to retire at age 75.
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Belarusian women protest in Minsk, Belarus, in October, demanding the resignation of the country s authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Yelena Leuchanka was lying on a cold, hard bed in a detention center in Minsk in late September when she heard other detainees singing. I just laid there because I was still in shock, she recalled. And the next thing I hear are women singing
Kupalinka. It s a Belarus song that women, when they go on their marches, they sing this song.
She joined in. I have never experienced that type of energy or anything like that, she said, this greatness, this unity.