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The U.S. Senate has approved the Belarus Democracy, Human Rights, and Sovereignty Act, expanding the scope of who can be subjected to U.S. sanctions and providing support to independent media. U.S. Senator Jim Risch (Republican-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Fore

This is expected to be a key step in the development of new e-services. Pavel Tkach, the First Deputy Minister of Communications and Informatization, told BelTA about the new identity documents, who is testing them, how ID-cards will help in the creation of electronic government and whether there are prospects for the appearance of digital passports in Belarus.

Вакансия подразумевает знание английского языка. Уровень IV (Свободное владение языком)Open to:Position:Announcement number: Opening Date:Closing Date:Work hours:Salary:All interested candidates Public Affairs AssistantMINSK-2021−2 December 14, 2020 December 28, 2020 Full-time (40 hours a week) FSN-8/FP-6 (FP schedule applies to AEFMs only)ALL ORDINARILY RESIDENT (OR) APPLICANTS MUST HAVE THE REQUIRED WORK AND/OR RESIDENCY PERMITS TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION.The U.S. Mission in Belarus is seeking eligible and qualified applicants for the position of Public Affairs Assistant.Under direct supervision of the Senior Small Grants Program Assistant, the Small Grants Program Assistant assists in the management of different types of grants

Miss Belarus 2008 and ex-press secretary of Brest Dynamo Olga Khizhinkova was not released from a detention center on Okrestin Street in Minsk on Friday. Her jail term for taking part in unauthorised protest rallies was supposed to expire on 11 December. Her husband, friends and famous atheletes came to meet her, but was told that she would remain in custody. Olga Khizhinkova was detained on 8 November during a protest action. Three days later she was sentenced to 12 days of arrest for *violation of the procedures for organizing or conducting public events.

Dmitry Kapustenok sustained a gunshot wound to his chest at a protest rally in Minsk last Sunday. He was taken from the Pervomaisky District Department of Internal Affairs to a military hospital. Belarus On 30 November, the 29-year-old software engineer returned home from a military hospital.

A four-month stand-off between Belaru­sian strong­man Alexan­der Lukashenko and the pro-demo­c­ra­tic pro­test­ers posed a serious chal­lenge for the EU. The block that had announced its ambi­tion to become a geopo­lit­i­cal actor, has found itself with very few levers in rela­tion to the crisis in its imme­di­ate neighborhood. Brus­sels has been active in its rhetoric – con­demn­ing vio­lence, crim­i­nal per­se­cu­tion and torture of pro­test­ers in Belarus.

Switzerland has become the latest country to freeze the financial assets of Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The Swiss government announced on December 12 that Lukashenka, his son Viktar, and 13 other Belarusians connected with the Lukashenka regime had been banned from entering or transiting through Switzerland. The sanctioned officials are all believed to be involved in the violent suppression of protests that have swept Belarus since

MINSK — Belarus will close several land-border crossings as of December 20 due to the coronavirus pandemic, a move that willlimit the movement of people at a time when the country is being rocked by protests over authoritarian Alyaksandr Lukashenka's claim of victory in a disputed presidential election. The national Internet portal for legal information on December 10 published a government res

Musician Pavel Arakelyan was released on November 22, after 15 days in jail. The next day, the «offender” said on the air of Euroradio that „in the detention facility they are doing everything possible for inmates to get out with COVID”. Musician Pavel Arakelyan was rel

Ex-Minister of Information, and now an MP of the House of Representatives Lilyia Ananich recently said on the air of ONT that «process of active development» for the adoption of a legislative act on the inadmissibility of glorification of Nazism is currently underway. «Perhaps by the spring session we will have a comprehensive document, although it may appear in parliament in the near future,» the MP said. Usually the spring

The sanctions of the International Olympic Committee have strongly affected Alyaksandr Lukashenka. During a trip to the hospital in Stoubtsy, he called the IOC a gang. «We need to go to court. L

Analysts of the Center for European Transformation have conducted a study on the use of telegram in Belarus and on how the courtyard and district chats are developing and what people discuss there. Explosive growth since March The authors note that for sev

В декабре изменится расписание некоторых электричек Белорусского и Савеловского направления Московской железной дороги, сообщает «Москва 24» со ссылкой на пресс-службу МЖД.

Недавно А1 рассказал о компенсациях абонентам за неработающий в ноябре мобильный интернет. В МТС заявили о персональных бонусах своим пользователям, а теперь с аналогичной инициативой выступили в life:).На официальном сайте компании появилось сообщение:— В течение нескольких дней ноября 2020 года у части наших абонентов в Минске были проблемы с доступом к мобильному интернету.

The head of an unrecognized, Brooklyn-based church with its 20th-century roots in Minsk Orthodoxy has declared Belarus's embattled Alyaksandr Lukashenka anathema for his abuses against «the pious Belarusian people.» The metropolitan of the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (BAOC), Archbishop Sviataslau (Lohin), announced the symbolic declaration against the longtime Belarusian leader at a service at St. Cyril of Turau Cathedral in Toronto on November 22. The BAOC is a minor, independent jurisdiction that mostly serves small numbers of emigres and their fa

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of interfering in Belarus as he met Alyaksandr Lukashenka, who has faced months of protests over his disputed reelection. Lavrov held talks on November 26 with Lukashenka and other top officials in the capital, Minsk, in the latest display of Moscow's support for Lukashenka's regime. Thousands of protesters demanding Lukashenka's resignation have taken to the streets of Minsk every weekend since an August 9 election that saw th

In the report for April-May 2020, based on the available data, I concluded that with a mortality rate from coronavirus as in neighbouring Poland Belarus would have nine times more deaths from coronavirus than official statistics indicate. In neighbouring Poland, the mortality rate is 5% of all confirmed cases of coronavirus (in the United States, 5.9%, in Austria, 3.9%).

Embattled strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka, who has ruled Belarus for 26 years, has said he would leave his post after a new constitution had been adopted, Belarus's Belta news agency quoted him as saying. «I will not work as president with you under the new constitution,» Lukashenka said during a visit to a Minsk hospital on November 27. He stressed the need for amendments to t

The European deputies voted on the adoption of resolution on the situation in Belarus. Its draft was published on the website of the European Parliament. The draft document titled “resolution on th

The number of supporters of the union with Russia in Belarus decreased by 11.6 percentage points from September to November, the survey conducted by the Belarusian Analytical Workshop (BAW) in early November suggests. In an interview with the Russian Kommersant, the head of the BAW, Doctor of Sociology, Andrei Vardamatski, told more about the survey. The sociological survey by

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has suspended financing of projects in the Belarusian public sector. «We call on Belarus to continue to fulfill all its international obligations. The EBRD continues to invest in private sector projects in Bel

Thousands of people gathered today near a church in Minsk to pay farewell to Raman Bandarenka. 31-year-old Bandarenka died on November 12 at an emergency rescue hospital in Minsk. One day earlier, he came out

Belarusian freestyler Alyaksandra Ramanouskaya has sold her gold medal, TUT.by reports. She won it at the 2019 Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The final price of the lot on the Int

More employees of Belaruskali have joined the national strike. On Monday, the strike was announced by 5 more people, the telegram channel @stachkom reports. «It is impossible to calmly