Kalinkovichi is a town in the Homel voblast of south-western Belarus with a population of 71,500. It is located by the Pripyat River across the town of Mozyr. Kalinkovichi coat of arms. ... Homyel voblast is an administrative region of Belarus with a center in Homyel. This and Mahilyow voblasts severely suffered after the Chornobyl nuclear reactor catastrophe. ... The Pripyat River (Ukrainian: Припять, Prýpyat; Belarusian: Прыпяць, Prýpyats, Polish Prypeć) is a river in Eastern Europe, of approximately 440 miles (710 km). ... Mozyr (Belarusian: Мазы́р, Мо́зыр; Russian: Мо́зырь) is a town in the Homel voblast of Belarus on the Pripyat River about 210 km east of Pinsk and 100 km northwest of Chernobyl. ...
It is known as one of the largest railway junctions in the country.
An inhabitant is called Palašuk in Belarusian, Polishchuk in the local Ukrainian dialect, Poleszuk in Polish, Poleshchuk in Russian.
Polesie is a marshy region lining the Pripyat River in Southern Belarus (Brest, Pinsk, Kalinkavichy, Homel), Northern Ukraine (in the Volyns'ka, Rivnens'ka, Zhytomyrs'ka, Kyivs'ka, and Chernihivs'ka oblasts), and partly in Poland (Lublin) and Russia (Bryansk).
It is a flatland within the watersheds of the Western Bug and Prypyat rivers.
In the evening of 29 June in the town of Kalinkavichy the police detained Uladzimir Tsieliapun, chair of Mazyr town branch of Human Rights Center Viasna.
After their meeting Uladzimir Tsieliapun was detained on the way to a bus stop by three policemen – one of them was in the uniform and the other two – in plain clothes.
Uladzimir Tsieliapun is going to complain to the head of Kalinkavichy TBIA and to the local procurator against the lawless arrest of the system block.
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