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.
Many users in cyberspace took Lukashenka's advice literally, posting nude or half-nude photos of themselves at the workplace.
І гэта добра: унікальнай традыцыі неглюбскага ткацтва цяпер нішто не пагражае. Радыё Свабода наведала вёску Неглюбка Веткаўскага раёна, дзе ткуць і старыя, і малыя.
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.
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.
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.
According to three government exits polls, incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka won the October 11 presidential polls in Belarus with more than 80% of the vote.
Several dozen people gathered on October Square in Minsk on October 11 to protest the way the authorities conducted the presidential election.
Lukashenka said the time when these protests went unpunished is over.
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.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka suggested on October 11 that the Belarusian people are not yet ready for a woman president.
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.
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.
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