Party Statute (page 1)

Beer Lovers Party of Belarus, or BLP (Russian: Партия любителей пива, ПЛП) was one of several Beer Lovers Parties created in some post-Soviet states, includeing Belarus. It was officially registered on December 30, 1993. Post-Soviet states in alphabetical order: 1. ... December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

According to its statute,

"the major goal of the BLP is the struggle for the cleanness and quality of the national beer, state independence and the neutrality of Belarus, freedom of economic relations, personal inviolability and inviolability of the private property"

The Chairman was Andrey Romashevsky (Андрей Ромашевский). It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Sanctity of life. ... This page deals with property as ownership rights. ...

In 1995 Romashevsky was arrested and imprisoned for burning the flag of the Byelorussian SSR in public. He was detained for hooliganism (“злостное хулиганство, совершенном с особым цинизмом”, "malicious hooliganism, perpetrated with a pronounced cynicism"), and after 3 months of imprisonment, on July 19, 1996 he received suspended sentence for two years of prison. Romashevsky denies that it was he who burned the flag, referring to a video of the event. Later he emigrated first to Poland and later to the Czech Republic and became a Czech citizen^[1]. After that the affairs of the party went into a disarray. State motto: Пралетарыі ўсіх краін, яднайцеся! Belarusian: Workers of the world, unite! Official language None. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... A suspended sentence is a legal construct. ...

The party was liquidated in 1998 by the Belarus Superior Court. The declared reason of the liquidation of BLP (as well as of several other parties) was failure of the party to address the request of the Belarus Ministry of Justice about the membership statistics and manamegement structure of the party.^[2]

References

1. ^ An interview with Romashevsky in BelGazeta
2. ^ Journal Justice of Belarus, #1, 1998