Everything seems to be going on as usual. However, reactors and lifting cranes at the new nuclear power plant, which can be seen from a few dozens kilometers, make the familiar landscape disturbing.
06.07.2016 | 09:08
Belarus in a preserved status can be endured for quite a long time and sometimes even be given money so that it is quiet, without revolutions and chaos.
05.07.2016 | 12:43
On July 1, 2016 a new law on alternative civilian service comes into effect in Belarus. This fall 10,000 young Belarusian conscripts start their compulsory military service, Galina Dzesiatava writes.
05.07.2016 | 10:35
The trade wars following the 2014 events in Ukraine affected not only the directly involved participants, but also countries like Belarus that were affected through international trade linkages.
04.07.2016 | 10:31
UN HRC renewed the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus for one year. The corresponding decision was made on July 1, 2016 at the UN HRC Session in Geneva.
03.07.2016 | 08:16
Ecohome turned 20! Officially it’s “an ecological civic union, but at the same time "home, an education center, a permaculture design school, a series of actions, recruiting and educating people."
02.07.2016 | 09:52
A large solar power plant will open this summer in Brahin District, changing the landscape of the Chernobyl-contaminated lands: 85,000 solar panels will occupy an area the size of ≈80 football fields.
29.06.2016 | 11:10
National currency has been strengthening at the expense of spending people’s foreign currency savings, not at the expense of economic recovery.
29.06.2016 | 08:51
Minsk regards its participation in the Central European Initiative, a European initiative with similar priorities to the Eastern Partnership, as unlikely to make the Kremlin nervous.
28.06.2016 | 10:55
On May 20, Acting Chair of the European Humanities University (EHU) Anne Lonsdale announced that the current EHU rector Prof. Garry Pollick will soon be concluding his term.
26.06.2016 | 10:17
“While $4 million may seem as a lot, we only need 400,000 caring Belarusian people who would each give us 10$ for a brick”, says the fundraising campaign of the hospice.
24.06.2016 | 11:26
It is a real mechanism of grass-roots democracy, the president said in his opening address at the 5th Belarusian People's Congress held at the Palace of the Republic in Minsk.
23.06.2016 | 13:40
He said Belarus would likely face economic tightening not only as a result of the coronavirus pandemic but also a Russian trade oil crisis that worsened this past winter.
In his report, philosopher Gintautas Mažeikis discusses several concepts that have been a part of the European social and philosophical thought for quite a time.
It is impossible to change life in cities just in three years (the timeline of the “Agenda 50” campaign implementation). But changing the structure of relationships in local communities is possible.