Belarus News Headlines

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  08:00, 12 лістапад 2018

  “Mission: Polyclinic.” Svaboda’s new web game set in a Belarusian polyclinic

  Submitting appointment slips. Queuing up in front of the doctor’s office.  Collecting official stamps for one’s medical passbook.  All these are activities one must endure during a routine visit to a Belarusian polyclinic.

• 20:05, 24 чэрвень 2016

  Belarusians strip down for Lukashenka VIDEO

  Many users in cyberspace took Lukashenka's advice literally, posting nude or half-nude photos of themselves at the workplace.

• 11:05, 05 чэрвень 2016

  Лукашэнку падарылі Неглюбскі ручнік, і ён тут жа стаў гісторыка-культурнай каштоўнасьцю

  І гэта добра: унікальнай традыцыі неглюбскага ткацтва цяпер нішто не пагражае. Радыё Свабода наведала вёску Неглюбка Веткаўскага раёна, дзе ткуць і старыя, і малыя.

• 16:33, 22 сакавік 2016

  Belarusian-born "ISIS militants" deny their participation in Brussels attacks

  Russia informed the Belgian authorities of three ISIS militants preparing attacks in Brussels, pro-Kremlin media outlet Lifenews reports with reference to a source in the country’s secret services.

• 19:08, 12 студзень 2016

  Ландсбергис: Россия обыгрывает тех, кто согласен быть обыгранным ПОЛНАЯ ВЕРСИЯ

  Бывший председатель Верховного Совета Литвы Витаутас Ландсбергис - гость обозревателя Белорусской службы Радио Свобода Анны Сусь, автора проекта "Россия и я", серии интервью с 12 лидерами постсоветских стран. ПОЛНАЯ ВЕРСИЯ ИНТЕРВЬЮ.

• 13:05, 27 кастрычнік 2015

  Gay Man Dies After 2013 Attack; Attacker Released From Jail

  A young gay man died in Minsk on October 26 after spending past 18 months in a near coma resulting from a horrific homophobic attack.

• 21:35, 11 кастрычнік 2015

  Exit Polls: Lukashenka Gets More Than 80% of Vote

  According to three government exits polls, incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka won the October 11 presidential polls in Belarus with more than 80% of the vote.

• 21:32, 11 кастрычнік 2015

  Small Protest Staged in Minsk After Presidential Polls

  Several dozen people gathered on October Square in Minsk on October 11 to protest the way the authorities conducted the presidential election.

• 19:37, 11 кастрычнік 2015

  Lukashenka Warns Opposition Against Street Protests

  Lukashenka said the time when these protests went unpunished is over.

• 19:06, 11 кастрычнік 2015

  Lukashenka Ready for Any Changes, ‘Including Revolutionary Ones’

  Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka said on October 11 that he has followed an «evolutionary path» in his economic policies in order to spare hardships for the Belarusian people.

• 17:32, 11 кастрычнік 2015

  Lukashenka Calls Female Opponent а ‘Person in a Skirt’

  Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka suggested on October 11 that the Belarusian people are not yet ready for a woman president.

• 16:01, 11 кастрычнік 2015

  Lukashenka to the West: The Ball is in Your Court

  After casting his ballot at a Minsk polling station today, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka said that the West has finally realized the futility of its sanctions policy against Minsk.

• 17:49, 09 кастрычнік 2015

  Activist Discovers ‘Extra Ballots’ at Polling Station in Vitsebsk

  The election commission at polling station number 61 in Vitsebsk changed the number of ballots received for voting in the ongoing presidential polls by adding 100 more items in its official record.

• 18:03, 07 кастрычнік 2015

  Election Observer Accuses Authorities of «Manipulation» of Early Voting Turnout

  Independent election monitor Uladzimir Labkovich told RFE/RL’s Belarus Service that a «significant overstatement» regarding the official voter turnout was noted by his group on the first day of early voting in the country’s ongoing presidential poll.

• 17:41, 06 кастрычнік 2015

  Regime Opponents Ask EU Not To Ease Sanctions on Minsk

  Belarus’s three former political prisoners have urged the EU not to remove sanctions on Minsk until Belarusian authorities fulfill all EU conditions for normalizing the bilateral relations, including the rehabilitation of former political prisoners and significant improvements in the human rights situation.

• 16:59, 05 кастрычнік 2015

  «Right of Choice» Group Fields 1,700 Observers for Presidential Polls

  The Right of Choice coalition of democratic organizations announced in Minsk on October 5 that it is sending 1,697 trained observers to monitor the presidential election in Belarus at 741 polling stations throughout the country.

• 23:00, 04 кастрычнік 2015

  Demonstration Against Russian Air Base In Belarus

  Hundreds of people gathered in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on October 4 at an unsanctioned protest against the establishment of a Russian air base in Belarus.

• 17:58, 02 кастрычнік 2015

  Election Authorities Reject Lukashenka Adversary’s Complaint

  The central election commission on October 2 dismissed a complaint by presidential hopeful Tatsyana Karatkevich about what she sees as an illegal form of campaigning for incumbent President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in the October 11 presidential poll.

• 18:13, 01 кастрычнік 2015

  Lukashenka Opponent Calls Both President and Opposition in Belarus «Tired»

  Tatsyana Karatkevich, who is challenging incumbent president Alyaksandr Lukashenka in the October 11 presidential election, told a gathering of voters in Brest on September 30 that the authorities in Belarus, while «exhibiting all signs of a dictatorship,» are «imitating democracy very vigorously.»

• 17:05, 01 кастрычнік 2015

  Independent Pollster Says Nearly 46% Want To Vote for Lukashenka

  According to a poll conducted in September by the Vilnius-based Independent Institute of Social, Economic and Political Studies (IISEPS), almost 46 percent of Belarusians are willing to vote for incumbent President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in the October 11 election.

• 17:53, 17 верасень 2015

  Reuters Exclusive: European Union moves to suspend sanctions on Belarus

  The European Union is likely to lift some sanctions on Belarus, including its travel ban on President Alexander Lukashenko, after he freed a group of political prisoners last month, diplomatic sources say.

• 16:24, 14 верасень 2015

  Democratic Hopeful Publishes Her Presidential Manifesto

  Tatsyana Karatkevich, who is deemed to be the only democratic candidate in Belarus’s presidential elections scheduled for October 11, published her presidential program on September 14 (http://zapraudu.info/karatkevich-initiative-group/program/).

• 15:14, 10 верасень 2015

  Four Hopefuls Registered for Presidential Polls

  Belarus’s Central Election Commission on September 10 registered Alyaksandr Lukashenka, Syarhey Haydukevich, Tatsyana Karatkevich and Mikalay Ulakhovich as candidates for the October 11 presidential polls.

• 17:40, 09 верасень 2015

  Russia Wants To Open an Air Base in Belarus

  Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on September 8 that Russia’s intention to deploy a Russian air base in Belarus takes its origin in bilateral agreements in 2009.

• 16:01, 08 верасень 2015

  Ex-Presidential Candidate Allowed Into Belarus Under Pledge Not To Leave It

  Exiled opposition politician Ales Mikhalevich, who was detained by border guards upon entering the Belarusian territory on September 9, is now free to move within the borders of Belarus.

• 11:16, 08 верасень 2015

  Border Guards Detain Ex-Presidential Candidate on His Return to Belarus

  Belarusian border guards on September 8 detained Ales Mikhalevich, a political refugee and a presidential candidate in the 2010 elections.

• 18:02, 07 верасень 2015

  Belarusian, Ukrainian Soccer Fans Show Anti-Putin Solidarity in Lviv

  Hundreds of Belarusian soccer fans shouted anti-Putin (Putin khuylo!) and pro-Ukrainian (Glory to Ukraine!) slogans at a Euro 2016 qualifier match in Lviv on September 5.

• 17:23, 03 верасень 2015

  Donbass Combatant Buried near Brest, Southwestern Belarus

  Some hundred people bade a final farewell in Brest on September 3 to Alyaksandr Charkashyn, a Belarusian who died last week in Ukraine.

• 16:56, 02 верасень 2015

  Lukashenka Orders Steps To Move Closer To China

  Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka thanked China leader Xi Jinping during a meeting in Beijing on September 2 for Chinese investments and loans to Belarus.

• 17:02, 28 жнівень 2015

  Belarus Secret Services Infiltrate Opposition, Say Some Of Its Leaders

  One of Belarus’ leading opposition candidates in the country’s tumultuous 2010 presidential race said at a press conference in Minsk on August 28 that authorities are using this year’s campaign to usurp control over the country’s splintered democratic opposition.

• 17:26, 24 жнівень 2015

  Pardoned 'Tattoo Protester' In Belarus Calls Clemency A 'Trick'

  A pardoned Belarusian rights activist who famously stripped off his shirt during his trial to reveal a "Lukashenka Go Away" message to the country's president has called the presidential clemency "a trick."

• 17:05, 24 жнівень 2015

  U.S. Welcomes Release Of Belarus Opposition Figures

  The U.S. State Department has welcomed the release from prison of Belarus opposition politician and former presidential candidate Mikalay Statkevich and five others.

• 18:33, 04 жнівень 2015

  Lukashenka Coy on Possible Release of Political Prisoner Statkevich

  «If we release him, this will happen prior to the [presidential] election [on October 11]. If we don’t, then it won’t happen. You’ll find out in the near future».

• 14:33, 04 жнівень 2015

  Lukashenka: «Russia Will Never Fight Against Belarus»

  Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka said he does not believe that Russia will ever wage war on Belarus.

• 12:02, 04 жнівень 2015

  Lukashenka Talks to Radio Liberty for First Time in Over 20 Years

  Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka is giving an interview to three independent Belarusian journalists, with RFE/RL Belarus Service Minsk Bureau deputy chief Valer Kalinouski among them.

• 14:09, 12 чэрвень 2015

  Kasparov: Moscow middle class should understand there's no future with Putin

  Wroclaw Global Forum, 2015.

• 17:33, 02 чэрвень 2015

  75-Year-Old Writer «Sorry» for Outrunning «Youth» in Prize Race

  «I feel somewhat sorry for worming my way into the company of youth».

• 11:40, 13 студзень 2015

  Gay victim brain damaged, his attacker gets less than three year sentence

  A Minsk appellate court today sentenced Dzmitry Lukashevich, 30, to two years and eight months in prison for his role in a horrific 2013 attack on a Minsk gay man which left the victim in a near vegetative state.

• 19:39, 23 сьнежань 2014

  Lukashenka: I will be president no matter what

  «Even if the entire world comes out against Lukashenka today — he will become president against all odds if he so chooses,» Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenka said today in Moscow following a Eurasian Economic Union summit.

• 18:45, 17 сьнежань 2014

  New Media Law in Belarus: Two Warnings and Your Site Is Blocked

  Internet news websites in Belarus will be considered regular media outlets as of the new year, according to a bill approved by the country’s parliamentary lower chamber on December 17.

• 18:31, 16 сьнежань 2014

  Lukashenka Urges Less Reliance on Russia for Belarusian Exports

  Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenka has called on the government to diversify Belarus’s export markets.

• 20:17, 05 сьнежань 2014

  Lukashenka: In Food Quality, Russia Trails Belarus by a Half Century

  During a government conference in Minsk this week, Belarus president Alyaksandr Lukashenka termed groundless Russia’s complaints about the allegedly poor quality of Belarusian foodstuffs.

• 19:02, 25 лістапад 2014

  RFE/RL Reporter Fined

  An RFE/RL correspondent, who is officially accredited in Belarus, has been fined after a court ruled that he had violated legislation on public gatherings in Belarus.

• 16:55, 25 лістапад 2014

  Belarus Defense Minister dismissal may be tied to Ukraine anxiety say some analysts

  Belarus Defense Minister dismissal may be tied to Ukraine anxiety say some analysts

• 16:17, 24 лістапад 2014

  Lukashenka: Yep, I Had an Operation

  In an uncharacteristic display of candor about the health of its leader, the Belarusian president’s office announced that Alyaksandr Lukashenka has recently undergone knee surgery.

• 16:04, 12 лістапад 2014

  Presidential Elections Expected on November 15, 2015

  Lidziya Yarmoshyna, chairwoman of Belarus’s Central Election Commission, said today that the most likely date for the country’s presidential elections is November 15, 2015.

• 21:34, 05 лістапад 2014

  Human Rights Defender Tonkacheva Ordered To Leave Belarus

  Today the Pershamayski District Police department in Minsk handed to human rights defender Yelena Tonkacheva a formal decision to nullify her residence permit in Belarus.

• 18:27, 05 лістапад 2014

  Snoop Dogg Loves Belarus

  Famous American rapper, songwriter and actor Snoop Dogg has used Belarusian folk ornaments to adorn a collection of clothes and other items available in his online shop.

• 15:10, 31 кастрычнік 2014

  Soviet-style Halloween in Minsk

  «Haunted» today is Minsk by ghosts of the past. While much of the western world marks Halloween, the Belarusian capital is hosting an event that is both appallingly funny and hilariously scary.

• 18:34, 29 кастрычнік 2014

  Lukashenka and son score on UAE ice

  In a hockey match Monday in Abu Dhabi, Belarus president Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s team reigned victorious over its United Arab Emirates opponents.

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