Communist hardliners protest planned change in party's name
Aleh Shapavalau,
a former member of the Central Committee of the opposition Belarusian Party of
Communists (BPC), has quit the party, demanding that its leadership should be
expelled for betraying "communist ideals." Shapavalau
submitted his letter to the BPC Bureau on July 8. On the same day, the BPC
Bureau discussed an appeal from the party's chapter in Babruisk, Mahilyou
region, protesting a planned reform of the party and threatening to form its
own party based on the principles formulated by Karl Marx Vladimir Lenin.
Belarussky
Partizan reports that the
