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The names of representatives of Belarusian NGOs actively involved in the initiative of lifting visa bans from officials guilty of electoral fraud, repression and torture have been revealed.

Activists placed office furniture in front of the Belarus embassy in Prague to symbolize the eviction of rights organizations from Belarus Activists from the Brno-based Independent Social Ecological Movement and the Prague-based Civic Belarus initiative placed office furniture and equipment in front of the Belarus embassy in the Troja district in ... (more)

The state of head is expected to have a number of meetings on February 6, Lukashenka's press service informs.

In July 2011 the name of Anders Behring Breivik became known all over the world.

Three Ukranian FEMEN topless proteters were kidnapped by the Belarusian KGB, tortured, stripped, had their hair cut and left naked in a forest.

If you're a fan of photography, you may have succumbed at some point to the photo book addiction.

The World Health Organization recently announced that tuberculosis cases found in Moldova, Belarus and Russia display the highest levels of drug-resistance known.

A possibility of imposing responsibility, also criminal one, for calls to slap sanctions against the country is being discussed in Belarus, TUT.by learned from an anonymous source close to top officials.

On Thursday a press-conference of the initiative group on boycott of the elections to the 'chamber of representatives' was held in Minsk.

The Swift Current Allied Arts Council is pleased that world renowned accordionist Alexander Sevastian will be the sixth performance for the 2011-2012 season of Stars for Saskatchewan on Feb.

Five representatives of the initiative group - Genadz Fiadynich , head of the National Professional Union of Workers of the Radio-electronic Industry; Viktar Ivashkevich , leader of the Belaruski Rukh ; Aliaksandar Atroshchankau , coordinator of the civic campaign European Belarus, former political prisoner, press-secretary of the presidential ... (more)

On 1 February 1 Anastasiya Rahacheuskaya, judge of the Pershamaiski District Court of Minsk, issued a verdict on the lawsuit of a resident of Homel, activist of the Movement "For Freedom" Aliaksandr Pratsko.

Belarus' general consulate in Daugavpils and the Latvian consulate in Vitsyebsk on February 1 started issuing permits for visa-free travel under an interstate local border traffic agreement, BelaPAN said.

Andris Teikmanis, the Secretary of State in the Latvian Foreign Ministry, plans to pay a working visit to Belarus on February 3 to discuss the Belarus-EU relations and other issues.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: On Oct. 29, 1939, the Lithuanian army, covered with flowers thrown by locals, marched via the streets of Vilnius, which was not envisaged by two former Vilnius residents, Felix Dzerzhinsky and Jozef Pilsudski , who shaped the history of Russia and Poland.

HOLOCAUST: At the Holocaust Day exhibition at St James' Church Selby is Roy Sherrard, Adrian Glasspole, Christine Sherrard and Sarah Baker.

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India has proposed investments by Indian pharmaceutical companies in joint ventures in Belarus, which, it said, would help India to increase its exports while at the same time helping Belarus meet its target of locally producing at least 50 per cent of the country's drug requirements.

Multiple problems have been identified in the case against the two young men accused of the terror attacks in Minsk in 2011.

Four Belarusians are being investigated on suspicion of stealing money from more than 20,000 people in an Internet scam using their credit card details.