Europe’s last dictatorship plans even tighter controls over citizens’ access to the digital world, Index on Censorship shows in a new report.
04.01.2013 | 18:40
Council of Ministers approved the draft intergovernmental agreement, laying the basis to hold negotiations on cooperation in nuclear safety from the side of Belarus.
04.01.2013 | 15:28
Growth of pro-European and weakening of pro-Russian moods in Belarusan society can be explained by the coincidence of economic crisis and involvement of the country in European integration processes.
04.01.2013 | 11:44
This forecast after evaluation of the relation of EU and our country shared the chairman of the International Consortium "EuroBelarus" Ulad Vialichka.
02.01.2013 | 17:12
While tactical tasks of the Office on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities were mostly solved in 2012, then signing of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities haven’t taken place.
30.12.2012 | 16:40
If Belarus declines to take into consideration the interests of the developed countries and doesn’t take the responsibility for its own development, then we might turn into a fully closed country.
29.12.2012 | 13:08
Former Swedish Ambassador sent a New Year message to Belarusans, saying he misses them and wishing them confidence and respect to all kinds of people in order to find compromise over disagreements.
28.12.2012 | 19:41
For the human right activists the main negative result of 2012 consists in the fact that so far there are political prisoners in Belarusan jails.
27.12.2012 | 10:10
Though Kremlin has always supported Minsk when the relations between Belarus and the EU were tense, Russian Ambassador encouraged Minsk to smooth over tensions between the Unites States and the EU.
26.12.2012 | 09:30
The majority of political parties on the threshold of 2015 will be united into blocks, which, according to the criteria suggested by Andrei Yahorau, are imitational.
22.12.2012 | 11:24
Two years have passed from the moment of cruel suppression of the peaceful demonstration after the presidential election in Belarus.
20.12.2012 | 11:57
Only broad debate, even propaganda, if you like, or promotion, as modern marketing calls it, are able to give impulse to the European Dialogue on modernization of Belarus.
18.12.2012 | 12:17
The second anniversary of the December 19th postelection crackdown in Belarus offers an opportunity to weigh the costs of “Bloody Sunday” and assess the West’s response.
17.12.2012 | 07:24
The political scientist Andrei Yahorau has suggested a number of criteria for distinguishing real political players from the fake ones among the future political players of 2015.
16.12.2012 | 11:50
Eurasian economic union during quite short life proved bigger reality than numerous previous unions in the post-Soviet area.Thus it requires studying both from the part of its member-countries and EU.
15.12.2012 | 14:54
The police detained young activist briefly on December, 12, charging him with staging an unauthorized demonstration. He was allowed to ho home later on.
14.12.2012 | 10:23
On December 10, 1950 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly. Since then this day is celebrated throughout the world as the Human Rights Day.
10.12.2012 | 09:17
At the meeting that took place at the House of Representatives the head of Swiss delegation, Arthur Mattli said he would have liked to see Belarus in the Council of Europe.
05.12.2012 | 14:57
German Defense Minister has ordered to close the military attaché’s office at the German embassy in Minsk because of the numerous violations of human rights in Belarus.
04.12.2012 | 13:00
Allegations that the adoption of the National Platform Development Concept has led to the politicization of this structure contain distorted notions of politics and political activity.
04.12.2012 | 08:17
The release of the Belarusan prisoners of conscience remains one of the main demands of the EU which at the same time welcomes dialog extension inside the Belarusan civil society.
30.11.2012 | 17:45
This opinion was expressed by Matteo Mecacci, the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly human rights committee in Copenhagen on November, 28.
28.11.2012 | 19:00
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.