Anti-Lukashenko parties have not a single seat in parliament and most have been denied registration.
Opposition parties have been denied registration, without which they will not be able to participate in the elections next December.
But his comments also seemed to suggest that the channel may have been denied registration due to its critical stance.
The Akadanovys' 150-member Hindu community, the Light of Kalyasa, has repeatedly been denied registration on technical grounds.
If more than 5 percent of the signatures checked at random by the commission are deemed invalid, the prospective candidate is denied registration.
But this is due not only to the fact that Kasyanov's party was denied registration and thus cannot take part in the elections.
In a sentence that seemed to echo our current political environment, Justice Alito posited a hypothetical trademark, "James Buchanan was a disastrous president," which could be denied registration under the disparaging-trademarks law.
"The multiparty nature of Parliament will be decorative, as it is in Russia," Vladimir I. Kozlov, the chairman of the main liberal opposition party, Alga, which was denied registration for years, said in a phone interview.
Roza Otunbayea, leader of the Ata-Jurt (Fatherland) movement, who was denied registration as a candidate, insists that yellow is the colour: it means ready for change, she says, as in a traffic light.
Nigeria's eagerly awaited election got off to an embarrassing start on Saturday when the country's president, Goodluck Jonathan, was denied registration and officials had to scramble to find a way for him to vote.
