On September 16, 2010 Public Association for Animal Protection «EGIDA» sent an open letter to the Chairman of Minsk City Executive Committee N.A. Ladutko with a reminder, that the Head of Presidential Administration V.V. Makey gave clear instructions to the mayor of Minsk “to work out mutually acceptable modalities of cooperation between the state and public organizations on the issues of animal protection and keeping”. N.A. Ladutko has not executed them, though. We also reminded that the building, which we (animal protectors) requested for establishing a shelter...

On September 16, 2010 Chairman of Public Association for Animal Protection «EGIDA» N.A. Belianova submitted a letter to Minsk City Executive Committee addressed to N.A. Ladutko with a request to fix another appointment with the city’s mayor in order to seek mutually acceptable ways of solving the problem of stray animals in Minsk. While the city’s authorities believe that Minsk Municipal Enterprise (animal control organization) «Fauna Goroda» has already solved the problem of stray pets, Public Association for Animal Protection «EGIDA»...

Belarussian public associations for the protection of animals are hereby seeking support from the European Parliament. For many years have we been trying to make Belarus' officials understand that the current conditions for keeping pet cats and dogs, their breeding, catching, and elimination are unacceptable for a country located in the centre of Europe. There are highly educated people in Belarus for whom animal cruelty supported by government is a source of continuous moral suffering. Belarus has no government tools for control over the...

Dear Sirs!
On the threshold of International Animal Rights Day, we - citizens of Republic of Belarus - ask you for support.
Realize that people and animals relation is a serious socio-ecological problem, which is in particular moral importance, and declare town inhabited animals as important and essential part of urban fauna and biological variety, we state that on the territory of Republic of Belarus: - near 70 000 homeless animals are killed annually, in the...