Beer Lovers Party (Belarus)
Beer Lovers Party of Belarus, or BLP was one of several :Category:Beer political parties|Beer Lovers Parties created in some post-Soviet states, including Belarus. It was officially registered on December 30, 1993.
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 the inviolability of private property"
The Chairman was Andrej Ramašeŭski.
In 1995 Ramašeŭski was arrested and imprisoned for burning the flag of the Byelorussian SSR in public in protest against the change of national symbols by Belarusian President Lukashenka after a controversial referendum. He was detained for hooliganism, and after 3 months of imprisonment, on July 19, 1996 he received suspended sentence for two years of prison. Ramašeŭski 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 and, lately, a member of Czech Pirate Party. After that the affairs of the party went into a disarray.
The party was liquidated in 1998 by the Belarus Superior Court. The declared reason of the liquidation of BLP was failure of the party to address the request of the Belarus Ministry of Justice about the membership statistics and management structure of the party.
The logo of the Party is an allusion to the "drunken hedgehog" a stereotype from Russian jokes.
