The International Monetary Fund will not enter talks with crisis-hit Belarus on a loan deal this year, it said on Thursday, citing Minsk's failure to commit to reforms.
Belarus asked the Fund in June for a loan of up to $7 billion to help it (...)
The Defense Ministry in Belarus says a military helicopter has crashed, killing all three people on board.
Ministry spokesman Alexander Gura said Wednesday that the Mi-24 helicopter crashed while landing at the Pruzhany airport some 300 kilometers (...)
The Belarusian regime on Friday backed out of
a deal with the US to divest itself of all weapons-grade uranium and
plutonium reserves in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed by
Washington, according to dpa.
Belarus will not divest itself (...)
Belarusian police arrested more than 100 people
registering their discontent with the government by standing silently
together in public, the Belapan news agency reported Thursday, according to dpa.
At least two journalists also were held in (...)
Belarus on Tuesday raised retail gasoline prices by 30 percent on average as the authorities made a fresh bid to keep a lid on an economic crisis while seeking an IMF bailout, according to Reuters.
The hike by state fuel firm Belneftekhim, which (...)
Awwal 09, 1432, April 13, 2011, SPA -- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says two suspects have confessed in the fatal bombing of the subway system in the capital.
In a televised statement on Wednesday, Lukashenko said the suspects have (...)
Awwal 08, 1432, April 12, 2011, SPA -- At least 11 people were killed and more than 100 injured in an explosion at a Minsk underground station Monday, which the Belarus authorities have described as a terrorist attack.
Hundreds of people evacuated (...)
Awwal 07, 1432 / April 11, 2011, SPA -- An explosion Monday at an underground station in the Belarus capital Minsk killed seven people and injured at least 80 more in what is seen as a likely terrorist attack.
Officials at the scene said the most (...)
Awwal 07, 1432 / April 11, 2011, SPA -- Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday that a blast at a metro station in the capital Minsk which he said had killed 11 people was aimed at undermining peace and stability in the country, (...)
Akhir 10, 1432 H/ March 15, 2011, SPA -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was in the Belarusian capital Minsk on Tuesday for a trade and energy summit
with his counterparts from Kazakhstan and Belarus, according to dpa.
Energy deliveries (...)
Awwal 18, 1432 H/Feb 21, 2011, SPA -- Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko told the army on Monday that he would not have hesitated to call on it to handle street protests against his re-election last December if the unrest had got out of (...)
Belarusian police have detained about 10 people at a candlelight vigil outside KGB headquarters in support of opposition leaders jailed since election-night protests more than a month ago, according to AP.
Among the 25 people still being held are (...)
Authoritarian leader Aleksander Lukashenko was
sworn in on Friday as Belarusian president as European Union
ambassadors stayed away to protest the rigged vote that gave him a
fourth term in office, according to dpa.
The ambassadors of Poland, (...)
Belarus declared on Friday that Europe's top rights watchdog would no longer be able to work there, after it criticised this month's presidential election and condemned a police crackdown on opposition demonstrators.
The Organisation for Security (...)
Belarus authorities have laid charges against seven
opposition candidates over protests following the December 19
elections, according to dpa.
The politicians face charges of having called for the unauthorized
rallies against the re-election (...)
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko replaced his prime minister of seven years on Tuesday with another long-time ally in a reshuffle that comes less than two weeks after the presidential election.
Lukashenko, elected to his fourth term on (...)
Belarus' election authority says incumbent president Alexander Lukashenko has won another term with nearly 80 percent of vote.
The Central Election Commission said that Lukashenko collected 79.67 percent of the vote in Sunday's presidential (...)
Voters in Belarus head to the polls Sunday to cast their ballots in presidential elections.
The race will determine the political fate of Alexander Lukashenka, CNN reported.
Lukashenka, who has been in office since 1994, is running against nine (...)
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko was poised to win almost 75 percent of the vote in a Sunday election, an exit poll showed, cementing his hold on the ex-Soviet Republic he has ruled with an iron fist since 1994, according to Reuters.
The (...)
Qa'dah 8, 1431 H/Oct 16, 2010, SPA -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez agreed on Saturday to supply the former Soviet republic of Belarus with 30 million tonnes of oil over three years from 2011 in a deal worth as much as $19.4 billion, according to (...)
An unknown assailant threw two fire bombs at the Russian embassy in Minsk late on Monday, in an attack that hurt nobody but destroyed an embassy car, a Belarussian Emergencies Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
Vitaly Novitsky said the motive for (...)
Belorussian President Alexander Lukashenko
directed today that the flow of Russian gas to the West via Belarus
be stopped, saying that Russian gas monopoly Gazprom owed 260 million
dollars for transit fees for the first half of 2010, dpa cited (...)
The Belarusian prime minister has canceled a planned trip to Russia to discuss a customs union between the ex-Soviet nations amid a rift over energy prices, according to AP.
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was set to host talks on the issue (...)
Kyrgyzstan's ousted president was in exile in Belarus today, as the interim authorities controlling the Kyrgyz capital warned he would be imprisoned if he tried to return to the Central Asian country, AP reported.
Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who fled (...)
Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko has said he believes Polish President Lech Kaczynski gave the final order to land his plane which crashed on Saturday in Russia, killing all on board, Interfax news agency reported, according to (...)
