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Opinion: Belarus authorities won’t change their practices regardless of softened political rhetorics

The state hasn’t provided clear guidelines to the law enforcement to change their practices. De facto, the law enforcers are free to choose their mechanisms, which is likely to preserve for a while. 23.05.2016 | 11:12

The 5th Belarusian People's Congress as the illusion of democracy

The Congress will take place in Minsk on 22-23 June, bringing together 2,500 participants around Belarus representing the branches of government, industry, business, science, health, and culture. 22.05.2016 | 11:07

Intermediate and capital goods import and economic growth in Belarus

Belarusian economic policy based on imported technologies seems ineffective especially in recent years, most probably due to decreasing skills and ability to imitate and innovate using foreign inputs. 22.05.2016 | 08:39

30% of Belarusians don’t know how much they spend

15% have a negative experience with loans. 21.05.2016 | 09:37

Lukashenka deems Georgia's, Ukraine's return to CIS possible

Aliaksandr Lukashenka finds it possible that Georgia and Ukraine will return to the Commonwealth of Independent States. 21.05.2016 | 08:35

Another Belarusian sentenced to death

On May 19 the Homel Regional Court sentenced Siarhei Vostrykau to death on charges of raping and murdering two women. 20.05.2016 | 10:17

Andrei Kabiakou is excited about his being elected a member of the Belarusian people's Congress

Belarusian officials are elected the members of the fifth Belarusian people's Congress. 20.05.2016 | 09:10

US won’t abolish sanctions until the parliamentary election

Washington calls on the Belarusan authorities to take steps for improving the situation in the sphere of human rights and democracy. 20.05.2016 | 08:02

Tomasz Blaschek: The issue of the "Russian world" doesn’t apply to Poland

A Polish historian told how the decommunization process happens in Poland, Belarus’ western neighbor, and what was an impetus for its acceleration in recent years. 19.05.2016 | 12:07

Belarusian Prime Minister: Belarus sees China as strategic partner

Andrei Kabiakou made this statement upon visiting Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan on Friday last week. 18.05.2016 | 12:06

openDemocracy: Whose side is Belarus on anyway?

Belarusians generally feel closer to Russia than Ukraine, but refuse to get involved in the conflict between them. It is, they insist, “not our war”. 18.05.2016 | 11:20

Andrea Wiktorin: EU insists on ex-political prisoners getting back their civil rights

The European Union insists that the Belarusian authorities returned all the civil rights to all former political prisoners. 18.05.2016 | 08:02

Miklós Haraszti is appalled by reports of the recent execution by the Belarusian authorities

He condemned Belarus’ continued use of death penalty after reports that a man whose complaint was before the UN HRC had been executed, despite a specific request from the HRC for a stay of execution. 17.05.2016 | 12:35

Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus Alena Kupchyna met the delegation of the European Parliament

The parties discussed the prospects of interaction between Belarus and the European Union. 17.05.2016 | 10:34

Lukashenka discussed “the future of Russian-Belarusian relations” with Lavrov

Belarus President Aliaksandr Lukashenka and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed the schedule of future top-level talks. 17.05.2016 | 09:05

Review of Press Freedom Week in Minsk

In the first week of May, Belarus celebrated a whole bunch of holidays, and press freedom day was not an exception. 17.05.2016 | 08:19

Uladzimir Matskevich: When something threatens the world, we can only hope for intelligence

Two days ago Uladzimir Matskevich, the Head of Board of the "EuroBelarus", the founder of the Agency of Humanitarian Technologies and the Flying University, celebrated his 60th anniversary. 16.05.2016 | 11:04

About 3 dozen opposition activists demonstrate in Minsk in support of historically national symbols

Activists staged a demonstration in Kastrychnitskaya Square in central Minsk on May 14 to mark 21 years since a referendum used by Lukashenka to reintroduce Soviet-style state symbols. 16.05.2016 | 08:10

Uladzimir Bataeu: Technology will save the world, if you do not ruin it before

The working futurist told which technologies conquer the world and what should we do about it. 15.05.2016 | 08:49

Assembly of NGOs and Lawtrend publish the monitoring “Freedom of association for I Quarter 2016”

Assembly of NGOs and Legal Transformation Center prepared the Monitoring “Freedom of association and legal conditions for non-profit organizations in Belarus”. 14.05.2016 | 12:48

Scandinavian countries will no longer support Belarusian university in exile

European Humanities University can be left without its main founders, while the Nordic Council of Ministers has been one of the biggest donors since 2008. 14.05.2016 | 11:40

Opinion: Kremlin might still believe that Minsk has no choice but gradually surrender its statehood

However, history proved such mindset that Russia displays to former Soviet nations wrong many times as former Soviet countries distanced themselves from Russia after experiencing such attitudes. 14.05.2016 | 09:07

Scandinavian countries will no longer support Belarusian university in exile

European Humanities University can be left without its main founders, while the Nordic Council of Ministers has been one of the biggest donors since 2008. 13.05.2016 | 09:46