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Kyiv Post
January 6, 2018
“To close by February 23, 2018, the Consulate General of the Republic of Belarus in Odesa (Ukraine),” reads the text of Decree No. 1 dated January 4, 2018, published on the official website of the Belarusian government. According to the resolution, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry should take measures toÃÂ ...
Belarus Digest
January 5, 2018
On 18 December, government officials defined plans for wage growth in the coming year. In contrast to economic ... Furthermore, according to official forecasts from the Belarusian Council of Ministers, GDP in 2018 will rise by 3.5 per cent and goods and services exports by 5.7 per cent. The National Bank ofÃÂ ...
Belarus News (BelTA)
January 4, 2018
“The exchange of official visits at the highest level (26 April, 20-21 July) ensured the maintenance of constructive nature of bilateral ties, progressive development of trade and economic relations and interregional cooperation. Taking into account the difficult situation in the east of Ukraine, Belarus providedÃÂ ...
Belarus Digest
January 4, 2018
With his criticism of Russian chauvinists and love for medieval Belarusian history, he embodies Minsk's ideological evolution over the past decade. On 28 September, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenka in a rare move appointed a Belarusian–speaking official the dean of Mahilyou State University.
esctoday.com
January 4, 2018
BTRC, the Belarusian national broadcater has revealed that it has received more than 90 applications in its quest to search forthe 2018 Belarusian Eurovision entry. Belarus will be ... The televised show will be aired live on BTRC Channel 1 and will be streamed live on the broadcaster's official website.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
January 3, 2018
Regnum is an online news outlet that covers events in Russia and other former Soviet republics. A fourth defendant in the Belarusian case, Yury Baranchyk, is also a Belarusian citizen but is residing in Russia. Russian authorities detained Baranchyk in March at Minsk's request, but refused to extradite himÃÂ ...
Belarus Digest
December 27, 2017
Belarusian officials present data to the international agencies without including independent data from non-governmental actors. Thus, instances such as the mass logging of forests remain hidden by the Belarusian authorities. In Poland, by contrast, civil society is protesting against allegedly commercialÃÂ ...
Xinhua
December 23, 2017
BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- With China and Belarus working to observe 2018 as the Year of Belarus in China and the Year of China in Belarus to boost two-way tourism, the Eastern European country is ready to offer Chinese tourists a variety of experiences, a Belarusian Foreign Ministry official saidÃÂ ...
International Monetary Fund
December 19, 2017
In this context, continued active engagement between the Fund and the Belarusian authorities is important. Directors encouraged the authorities to use the economic recovery to implement deeper, faster reforms in the real sector to increase productivity, raise growth, and boost the economy's resilience toÃÂ ...
EURACTIV
December 14, 2017
The rising illicit tobacco trade and particularly of the so-called cheap whites from Belarus to the EU will be discussed at the next EU-Belarus meeting on 19 December, an EU official told EURACTIV.com. Industry and customs officials say the Belarusian excise taxes on cheap whites are the root of theÃÂ ...
AzerNews
December 28, 2017
He noted that in the outgoing year 2017, representatives of Belarus had carried out about 40 official visits to Azerbaijan, which indicated the intensity of bilateral relations. Belarus will expand its network of branded national product stores in the regions of Azerbaijan in 2018, according to the ambassador.
Trend News Agency
December 28, 2017
Azerbaijan's Public Association of Councils of Commodity Exchanges will become an official representative of the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE) in Azerbaijan, BelTA quoted BUCE spokesman Roman Yaniv as saying. The relevant agreement was signed between Chairman of theÃÂ ...
www.DiamondNe.ws
December 27, 2017
President of the Republic of Belarus signed a special document that legalized crypto-mining in Belarus. “Belarus will be the next centre of the crypto-technology during the next few years and this is our main goal. We want to make comfortable conditions for owners, miners and developers of cryptoÃÂ ...
Hacked
December 27, 2017
The government of Belarus has officially acknowledged bitcoin as legal tender, underscoring the wide divergence of opinion about how to regulate the digital currency. In the process, authorities also legalized initial coin offerings (ICOs), the controversial funding model that has raised more than $5 billionÃÂ ...
Belarus Digest
December 27, 2017
Belarusian officials present data to the international agencies without including independent data from non-governmental actors. Thus, instances such as the mass logging of forests remain hidden by the Belarusian authorities. In Poland, by contrast, civil society is protesting against allegedly commercialÃÂ ...
International Monetary Fund
December 19, 2017
In this context, continued active engagement between the Fund and the Belarusian authorities is important. Directors encouraged the authorities to use the economic recovery to implement deeper, faster reforms in the real sector to increase productivity, raise growth, and boost the economy's resilience toÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 18, 2017
Regnum is a nongovernmental online news outlet that covers events in Russia and other former Soviet republics. A fourth suspect in the Belarusian case, Yury Baranchyk, is also a Belarusian citizen but is residing in Russia. Russian authorities detained Baranchyk in March at Minsk's request but refused toÃÂ ...
Belarus News (BelTA)
December 11, 2017
“I am grateful to the authorities of Belarus for the special attitude towards Moldova. I want to say again that Belarus is one of true and close friends of Moldova. When we encountered some problems and were having a hard time, Belarus extended us a helping hand, helped us, including in economic terms.
CyberScoop
December 5, 2017
... say they identified the man arrested in Belarus as the leader behind one of the oldest and widespread botnets in history. Recorded Future identified Sergey Jaretz, a 33-year old male residing in Rechitsa, Belarus as recently arrested by Belarusian authorities as part of the global police effort.
Fortune
December 5, 2017
One of Eastern Europe's most prolific cyber criminals has been arrested in a joint operation involving Belarus, Germany and the United States that aimed to dismantle a vast computer network used to carry out financial scams, officials said on Tuesday. National police in Belarus, working with the U.S.ÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 1, 2017
Belarusian authorities have dropped charges against alleged members of the White Legion, a group they had accused of plotting unrest across the country. The Investigative Committee said on November 30 that while the activities of White Legion members had elements of military training, a probe did notÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
November 21, 2017
MAHILYOU, Belarus -- Belarusian authorities say they have detained a Russian man who attempted to rob a bank and took several people hostage in the eastern city of Mahilyou. Aksana Salyanyuk, a spokeswoman for the Investigative Committee in the Mahilyou region, told RFE/RL that the man, whoseÃÂ ...
Belarus News (BelTA)
December 31, 1999
... officials of all the levels, from a chairman of the rural council to a minister, is as follows: to observe not only the letter but also the spirit of the adopted regulations. Every government official should follow the standard formula in maintaining contacts with business. If the law allows providing assistance, do it.
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- With China and Belarus working to observe 2018 as the Year of Belarus in China and the Year of China in Belarus to boost two-way tourism, the Eastern European country is ready to offer Chinese tourists a variety of experiences, a Belarusian Foreign Ministry official saidÃÂ ...
EURACTIV
December 31, 1999
The rising illicit tobacco trade and particularly of the so-called cheap whites from Belarus to the EU will be discussed at the next EU-Belarus meeting on 19 December, an EU official told EURACTIV.com. Industry and customs officials say the Belarusian excise taxes on cheap whites are the root of theÃÂ ...
The Jamestown Foundation
December 31, 1999
Bolkunets builds on this hypothetical construction (the investigation is still underway) by making a bold assumption that Belarusian authorities might be in ... news and information from TV; therefore, the Belarusian government's official reaction to the “anti-Belarusian TV propaganda” warrants a closer look.
Charter 97
September 1, 2017
The Belarusian-Russian military exercises West-2017 will start on September 14. ... The authorities have forgotten about our history, culture, traditions ... of the FSB, since all the top officials served in the Russian structures.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
September 1, 2017
(JTA) — In a rare questioning of authorities, Jewish leader in Belarus said they were “concerned” over plans to build apartments atop whatÃÂ ...
Newsweek
August 31, 2017
Russia and Belarus's joint military drill is not, as some European ... According to the defense official, the exercise was designed that way toÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 31, 2017
Authorities in Belarus said on August 31 that a Ukrainian teenager whose ... But Belarusian border officials on August 31 said Hryb had entered that ... that the Belarusian Foreign Ministry had called in the top official at theÃÂ ...
Belarus Digest
August 25, 2017
Since 2014, the authorities have been planning to tear down a historic district of Minsk. .... According to official data, during the first half of 2017 the economies ... Belarusian laws and the statements of officials suggest that theÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 22, 2017
Meanwhile, a NATO official told RFE/RL on August 22 that Belarus has ... on condition of anonymity because NATO officials are not allowed toÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 13, 2017
MINSK, Belarus — Western officials and the news media have for years ... Intensifying those concerns are official reports that Russia has rented ... Both the Russian and Belarussian authorities have vowed publicly that theÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Local authorities last year approved a project for the construction of two ... Belarusian officials have vowed to protect Jewish heritage sites inÃÂ ...
BelarusInFocus.info
December 31, 1999
Belarusian authorities pushing narrative of hopelessness and disappointment ... Those laid off had not registered as unemployed, so as officialÃÂ ...
UN News Centre
March 28, 2017
... situation in Belarus has expressed dismay over the Government's return to the policy of violent mass repression against peaceful demonstrators, non-governmental organizations, journalists and political opponents, and is calling on the authorities ...
New Europe
March 28, 2017
Belarus authorities detained hundreds of people on Saturday during an attempt to hold a street protest in the capital Minsk, amid rising public anger over falling living standards and an unpopular tax on the unemployed.
Prague Daily Monitor
March 28, 2017
... officials' corruption in Moscow on Sunday. The Belarussian police arrested more than 400 people protesting against the regime on Saturday.
New Europe
March 28, 2017
Belarus authorities detained hundreds of people on Saturday during an attempt to hold a street protest in the capital Minsk, amid rising public anger over falling living standards and an unpopular tax on the unemployed.
CPJ Press Freedom Online
March 28, 2017
New York, March 28, 2017--Belarusian authorities should immediately release all journalists jailed covering protests and should cease obstructing reporters inÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
March 28, 2017
(Minsk) - Police in Belarus arrested and beat an opposition activist Ales Lahvinets, causing him to be hospitalized for three days with multiple injuries, before a court sentenced him on March 27, 2017, to 10 days' detention on fabricated hooliganism ...
Sputnik International
March 28, 2017
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - On Saturday, the so-called Freedom Day protests took place across Belarus. In Minsk, the nation's capital, the demonstration coincided with the so-called March of Angry Belarusians.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 27, 2017
MINSK -- Three days after he went missing ahead of a large antigovernment rally, Belarusian opposition leader Mikalay Statkevich has been released from whatÃÂ ...
bne IntelliNews
March 26, 2017
Belarusian riot police arrested hundreds of peaceful anti-government protesters who took part in rallies in Minsk and other cities on the March 25 Freedom Day marked by the opposition.
WION
March 25, 2017
Belarus authorities raided the offices of a prominent rights group Saturday, detaining dozens of people, including foreign rights workers, ahead of a planned protest by opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko.
The FINANCIAL
March 24, 2017
The FINANCIAL -- Over the course of March 2017, mass peaceful protests of citizens as a reaction to the adoption of the Presidential Decree No.
The Guardian
March 23, 2017
Human rights organisations have called on Belarusian authorities to drop all charges immediately against writers, publishers and journalists who have been arrested following a wave of nationwide protests.
Belarus Digest
March 20, 2017
... the authorities to stop the persecution of citizens for exercising their right to peaceful protest. In their appeals to Belarus' authorities and international organisations, the Belarusian CSOs express rejection of the repressive actions related to ...
Sputnik International
March 20, 2017
MINSK (Sputnik) - Bychkovsky noted that the aircraft, which he said was not a passenger flight, was flying from Armenia to Bulgaria via Belarus. "I can confirm this fact. The incident took place on [Sunday] March 19 at Gomel Airport," spokesman AntonÃÂ ...
BelarusInFocus.info
March 20, 2017
By appointing a compromise candidate, Vsevolod Yanchevsky, to lead the High Tech Park, the Belarusian authorities aspire to relax tension between the IT sector and the state, which occurred following Tsepkalo's dismissal.
