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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.»
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.
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.
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/).
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.
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.
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.
Belarusian border guards on September 8 detained Ales Mikhalevich, a political refugee and a presidential candidate in the 2010 elections.
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.
Some hundred people bade a final farewell in Brest on September 3 to Alyaksandr Charkashyn, a Belarusian who died last week in Ukraine.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka thanked China leader Xi Jinping during a meeting in Beijing on September 2 for Chinese investments and loans to Belarus.
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.
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."
The U.S. State Department has welcomed the release from prison of Belarus opposition politician and former presidential candidate Mikalay Statkevich and five others.
«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».
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka said he does not believe that Russia will ever wage war on Belarus.
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.
Wroclaw Global Forum, 2015.
«I feel somewhat sorry for worming my way into the company of youth».
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.
«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.
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.
Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenka has called on the government to diversify Belarus’s export markets.
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.
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.
Belarus Defense Minister dismissal may be tied to Ukraine anxiety say some analysts
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.
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.
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.
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.
«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.
In a hockey match Monday in Abu Dhabi, Belarus president Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s team reigned victorious over its United Arab Emirates opponents.
Belarus president Alyaksandr Lukashenka today expressed regret and disappointment that Belarusian literature of the past 20-30 years has failed to produce anything comparable to Leo Tolstoy’s «War and Peace» or Mikhail Sholokhov’s «Virgin Soil Upturned».
"Not a single contract will be signed" as a result of today's first ever US/Belarus investment forum in New York, predicts a former candy magnate whose majority shares in a couple of Belarusian confection factories were re-appropriated by the state nearly two years ago.
«Painting a black cat white is a tall order,» says independent Belarus economist Leanid Zaika, referring to Belarus prime-minister Mikhail Myasnikovich’s task of attracting foreign investment at the upcoming US/Belarus investment forum in New York.
Belarus’s most distinguished writer said in Minsk on 16 September that the cease-fire in Ukraine will not hold and the country is facing an imminent full-scale war.
Presidents of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine, and high representatives of the EU took part in negotiations in Minsk.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the crisis in Ukraine cannot be resolved without a dialogue with Ukraine’s eastern regions.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stressed the importance of halting supplies of weapons to the separatists.
Vladimir Putin, Petro Poroshenko, Catherine Ashton and other EU officials will meet in Minsk on August 26, 2014, to look for a political solution to the Ukrainian crisis.
А monument to Prince Alherd (Lithuanian: Algirdas), a medieval ruler who waged war with Muscovites and extended the borders of his state at the expense of Muscovy and the Golden Horde, was unveiled today in the northeastern Belarusian city of Vitebsk.
One or more supersonic TU-160 strategic bombers are en route to Belarus, reports the Ukrainian website Ekonomicheskiye Izvestiya, ostensibly to make an appearance at the country's Independence Day parade).
The prankster who allegedly duped Belarus president Alyaksandr Lukashenka into believing he was speaking with the son of Ukraine former president Viktоr Yanukovych in a telephone conversation Saturday, today disavowed any connection to the eavesdropped version of that conversation that appeared on the Ukrainian internet.
A telephone prankster with the moniker Vovan222 has allegedly duped Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenka into extracting a commitment to provide former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych with political asylum in Belarus should he request it.
