| REPUBLIC OF BELARUS (3227 words) |
 | The scale of state financial support for the organization and the blatantly political way in which independent initiatives have been dismantled and replaced by structures of the BPSM underscore its political role as a pillar of the regime. |
| Admission to state university in Belarus is achieved by passing an oral entrance exam in front of an entrance exam committee. |
| Several students and university lecturers a Human Rights Watch researcher spoke to expressed the belief that BPSM members present during the entrance exam are used to filter out both those students whose preferred first language is Belarusian and opposition activists through the canvassing of these applicants' political opinion. |
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