Новости о Aleksandr Lukashenko

MINSK, 9 March (BelTA) – Belarus is experiencing unprecedented pressure and certain parties intend to destabilize the situation soon, BelTA learned from Chairman of the State Security Committee Ivan Tertel after the official delivered his report to Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko on 9 March. The KGB chief said: “During the report to the head of state the main problems connected with ensuring national security and the threats emerging in the sphere of foreign-policy activities and the domestic situation were outlined. On the w

MINSK, 5 March (BelTA) – I strongly support the promotion of cycling in the country, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he talked with the staff of OAO Motovelo Plant, BelTA has learned. “Were it in my power, I would make the streets of Minsk car-free and bicycle friendly. This would be so

MINSK, 1 March (BelTA) – It is necessary to eliminate all kinds of unnecessary intermediation inside the country, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he heard out a report of Chairman of the State Control Committee Vasily Gerasimov on 1 March, BelTA has learned. “Another matter we need to seriously deal with (we raised it at the Belarusian People's Congress) is intermediation.

The figurine, unearthed by archaeologists in the ruins of an ancient city on the outskirts of Minsk, the Belarus capital, is a chess piece, probably a knight. It’s proof, in the poet’s view, that his country has existed for a millennium as a culture and polity separate from Russia. “This means that 1,000 years ago people on this spot were sitting playing chess,” said Gleb Labadzenka, the poet. “Our neighbors’ capitals — Moscow, Warsaw, Vilnius — did not even exist at this time, but here we were playing chess.” In Belarus, Ukraine and other parts of the defunct Soviet Union, an endless tug-of-war between Moscow and its former dominions has often been defined by quarrels over oil and gas pipelines, military alignments, and geopolitics. At bedrock, however, are sharp differences over history, culture and language. And it is on this front, Mr. Labadzenka and like-minded Belarusians believe, that their country can best resist pressure from President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to accelerate moves toward a so-called “union state.”