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Reuters Belarus has moved to suspend the exports of light petroleum products to Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states following the supply of low-quality crude oil from Russia, reports the state news agency BELTA quoting Belarusian Oil Company (BNK) Deputy General Manager Siarhei Hryb.Mr Hryb added that the supplies under the signed contracts are suspended until the quality of the Russian crude oil in the pipeline is restored. Belarus has decided to restrict the exports to ensure that domestic demand for fuel is met during the sowing campaign.

The next presidential election in Belarus may be held on 30 August 2020, Lidziya Yarmoshyna, Chairperson of the Central Election Commission (CEC), told journalists. Interestingly, the incumbent president was born on August, 30.“The Constitution requires that [a presidential election] has to happen at least two months before the term of office expires.

On 14 April almost 1,000 people in Brest protested against the construction of a battery factory. During the past year similar protests took place in Astravets, Brest, and Svetlahorsk; all against environmentally-harmful enterprises threatening neighbourhoods with dangerous factory emissions. However, as with other non-political protests, the authorities reacted in all of these cases with either silence or detentions. Low production costs in Belarus attract foreign investors and potentially create new jobs.

Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko Photographer: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images President Vladimir Putin may look beyond Russia for a mechanism to keep power after his current term ends. That’s making Moscow’s closest ally nervous amid spiraling tensions over Kremlin threats to slash economic subsidies.After years of spending billions of dollars to support Belarus’s state-dominated economy, Russia is intensifying pressure on President Alexander Lukashenko to demonstrate his loyalty by accepting deeper integration in return for continued aid.

On 12 April, tut.by reported that Belarus has pushed for an urgent modernization of it chief refineries in Navapolatsk and Mazyr to minimize the losses from the reduction of Russian oil dotations via the ‘tax manoeuvre’. However, if Russia reduces oil dotations in 2019, catastrophic consequences should not follow for Belarus. Belarus will disagree to concede to Russia in the questions of real integration, as Moscow means it: creating common customs, unification of currencies, creating a common visa space, and deployment of Russian military bases.Alexander Lukashenka and Vladimir Putin still negotiate about compensating Belarus for Russia’s latest oil tax reform.

BelToll will not collect the road toll from owners of light vehicles in Belarus from 10 June to 10 July. The easing is timed to the 2nd European Games in Minsk.The owners of the vehicles with trailers with the technical gross vehicle mass of 3.5 tonnes and less will be exempted from toll payments, BelToll reports.They will not have to sign toll road usage contracts, register their vehicles with the BelToll system, and install onboard payment devices.Those drivers who fall under the category and plan to travel along Belarusian toll roads are advised to put the onboard device into protective packaging (a metalized bag).This will prevent the device from making sound signals when the vehicle passes under road toll collection stations.....