Belarus News

In January 2010, mixed fodder production volumes in Belarus totaled 253.7 thsd tonnes, an increase of 8.2% compared to the same period of the previous year, declared the National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus .

Official Minsk criticised the EP resolution on Belarus and called it "one-sided" and "biased". "The resolution on Belarus adopted by the European Parliament yesterday is one-sided, biased and improvident," Interfax quotes the Belarusian MFA press service.

In the run-up to the presidential elections authorities are stepping up repressions and attempts to control civil activities maximally.

It had been planned that at today's consultations the conflict related to the Union of Poles in Belarus was to be discussed.

Alyaksandr Mazyrko was only 31; he was hitchhiking around Cuba and was killed while asleep.

The youth activist, who was forcefully drafted into the army, has been taken to hospital in connection with problems with heart.

The Embassy of Poland in Minsk has spread a communique denying information of the Belarusian state-run TV channels.

Prominent young opposition activist Tatsyana Shaputska has filed a suit with Minsk's Maskowski District Court over her expulsion from Belarusian State University .

Leszek Ostrowski, left, consul from the Polish embassy in Belarus, speaks with a militiaman in front of a court building in Volozhin, some 50 miles west of Minsk on Feb.

Judge of Maskouski district of Minsk Alena Shylko issued a verdict to New Life Full Gospel congregation in the suit of the Nature Protection Committee affiliated to Minsk city executive committee.

Representatives of official Minsk have more than once spoken about a possibility of imposing moratorium on the death penalty, but it ended in talk.

As it was found out that many authors of the letter to the Polish authorities didn't even sign it.

A former student of Belarusian State Pedagogical University decided to commit suicide after he had been sent to province to serve his mandatory assignment.

A potential candidate for deputy of Minsk city executive committee, a popular blogger Yauhen Lipkovich has sent an application to deputy head of Lukashenka's administration Natalya Pyatkevich.

A blogger calls on Lukashenka to organize a medical examination for Charhinets, who has declared war against Rammstein.

Human rights activists say that 'elections' to local councils are neither democratic nor transparent.

Parks, public gardens and stadiums are not the only places where drinking alcoholic beverages is forbidden under the new rules.

Aleksander Obrozov was speaking the day after the head of the country's Council for Morals told RIA Novosti that the German rock band's show should be cancelled, saying that the group promoted "homosexuality, masochism and other perversions, as well as brutality and obscene language." The group's latest album, which topped charts all over Europe, ...

The German media are discussing a scandal around the Minsk gig by German band Rammstein.

The Public council on morality in Belarus opposes holding Rammstein concert in Minsk, planned for March 7. 'The decision to bring Rammstein to Minsk is a mistake which can become costly for us.