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.
