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Agriculture needs iron discipline, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he inspected the selection and seed complex of the Scientific and Practical Center for Arable Farming of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), BelTA has learned. Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that for a high harvest it is important to observe the technologies in the strictest manner. In some places this is still not done, including because of the negligent attitude to the results of common labor. He noted that farmers treat their grain differently. «They treat it differently. They abide by technology. They are in the field working all the time. Meanwhile managers of state-held agricultural companies hold staff meetings and consider their job done,» the head of state said. «We need dictatorship. And we have it. Let's turn it on,” the president put it figuratively. “Let's turn on the administrative resource and make people work properly. It's time to start working really hard.» In the fields of the scientific and practical center, the conversation was about the cultivation of legumes. For example, lupine is a crop rich in protein, which is extremely important as part of the feed for animal husbandry. Aleksandr Lukashenko inquired scientists and officials about the work and prospects in this direction. Moreover, it is also a matter of import substitution.

Стива Розенберга с Лукашенко, где британский журналист задал острые вопросы, получило награду Королевского телевизионного общества «Сетевое интервью года». Об этом журналист написал в своем Twitter.«Победившее интервью было охарактеризовано судьями как смелое, образцовое телевизионное произведение и мастер-класс по интервьюированию тирана, страдающего манией величия.

Former Belarus leader Stanislav Shushkevich, the man who broke the news to Mikhail Gorbachev that the Soviet Union was being consigned to history, has died at the age of 87, Belarusian media quoted his wife as saying on Wednesday. Shushkevich was one of the three main actors, with Russian president Boris Yeltsin and Ukraine's Leonid Kravchuk, at a meeting in a Belarusian hunting lodge in December 1991 at which they sounded the death knell of the former superpower led by Gorbachev. «The USSR as a geopolitical reality, and as a subject of international law, has ceased to exist,» they said in a joint statement announcing the formation of a new Commonwealth of Independent States.

© Reuters. Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a news conference in Minsk, Belarus February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Nikolai Petrov/BelTA/Pool МОСКВА (Рейтер) - Белорусский лидер Александр Лукашенко дал понять, что Минск может остановить транзит украинских грузов в ответ на запрет поставок через Клайпедский порт, передало государственное агентство БелТА.

Anna Alboth with refugees in Narewka, Poland, near the Belarus border. ‘We cannot take people with us or drive them to a safe place.

The Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has acknowledged that his troops probably helped Middle Eastern asylum seekers cross into Europe, in the clearest admission yet that he engineered the new migrant crisis on the border with the EU. In an interview with the BBC at his presidential palace in Minsk, he said it was “absolutely possible” that his troops helped migrants across the frontier into Poland. “Maybe someone helped them. I won’t even look into this,” he said.

The European Commission has said it wants to suspend easy access to visas for Belarusian officials in an attempt to deter it from pushing migrants from the Middle East and Africa across its border with the bloc. Neighbouring Poland, Lithuania and Latvia have declared states of emergency after a sharp increase in arrivals at their borders with Belarus, accusing the country’s dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, of an act of “hybrid warfare” in seeking to orchestrate a EU migrant crisis.

A Belarusian court has sentenced the senior opposition leader Maria Kalesnikava to 11 years in prison, punishing one of the most prominent opponents of the country’s authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko. Kalesnikava, a leader of the opposition’s coordination council, was one of three women last year who united to lead an uprising in which tens of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets i

Vladimir Putin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said they had made progress toward integrating the two countries’ economies during a summit on Thursday evening in advance of massive joint military exercises. Speaking late on Thursday, Putin said the two leaders had agreed to coordinate the countries’ macroeconomic policies, institute common tax and customs measures, and harmonise ot

Belarusian authorities have detained more than 20 people in the latest wave of arrests, continuing their sweeping crackdown on dissent a year after a disputed presidential election, human rights activists say. Belarus was rocked by protests which were fuelled by the 9 August 2020 re-election of the authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, to a sixth term in a vote that the opposition and the west rejected as a sham. Lukashenko responded to the dem

Aleysa Ivanova wakes up each morning wondering when the knock on her door will come. “You understand you can be next. Every day I wake up, I think ‘maybe it’ll be tomorrow, maybe today. Maybe they’ll come for me this evening’,” said Ivanova (not her real name). As a journalist in Belarus, her rep

On July 9, Belarusian athletes were seen off in Minsk to the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo. The day before, the Grodno hammer soldier Ivan Tikhon was elected captain of the Olympic team. At a meeting with the delegation, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko presented the State Flag of the Republic of Belarus to the captain of our Olympians and stressed that sports achievements are of great importance not only for the athletes themselves, but for the entire country.

The Belaruskaly potash plant. Belarus is a major producer, but the EU’s sanctions only apply to around 15% of its exports to the bloc.

Western countries have extended sanctions against Belarus, with a pledge to make Alexander Lukashenko’s regime “run dry”, following last month’s forced landing of a Ryanair flight to arrest a dissident. In a coordinated move against Lukashenko, the UK, US, EU and Canada announced travel bans and asset freezes on senior Belarusian officials and entities that bankroll the regime as a punishment for the arrest of the activist and journalist Raman Pratasevich and his girlfriend, Sofia Sapega, who were detained after being hauled off a flight from Athens to Vilnius.

Alexander Lukashenko has made his first public remarks defending his grounding of a Ryanair flight last week, accusing the west of launching a “hybrid modern war” against Minsk and calling the backlash over the incident a “planned provocation”. Addressing a session of parliament, Lukashenko also appeared to suggest the plane could have been shot down because it was flying over a nuclear power plant when it was diverted by the Belarusian government, which appeared to have concocted a bomb threat and scrambled a Mig-29 to ensure the plane landed.

Belarus has been accused of hijacking a European jetliner and engaging in an act of state terrorism when it forced a Ryanair flight to perform an emergency landing in Minsk after a bomb threat and arrested an opposition blogger critical of authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko. Roman Protasevich, a former editor of the influential Telegram channels Nexta and Nexta Live, was detained by police after his flight was diverted to Minsk national airport. Minsk confirmed that Lukashenko ordered his military to scramble a Mig-29 fig

«There was an attempt at a coup d'état,» says Vladimir Makei. «Therefore, the actions of law enforcement agencies and authorities were absolutely adequate and necessary.» The Belarusian foreign minister defended his government's anti-protest actions in an interview with Euronews on Thursday morning.

The so-called dictatorship and order have shown their effectiveness in the agro-industy, Alexander Lukashenko believes. On 29 April, a meeting on the current situation in the country’s agro-industry is being held at the Palace of Independence in Minsk. Lukashenko said that last year became a real test for the system of world economic relations: borders were closed, long-term trade ties were destroyed, and states and economic unions refused to fulfil their obligations of mutual support.

Russian intelligence services have all the necessary evidence of a conspiracy against Alexander Lukashenko, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, TASS reports. “The special services have the evidence. Our special services have jointly carried out an operation to suppress criminal plans to overthrow the legitimate government in Belarus. Intelligence agencies have all the necessary evidence. In addition, they also have the confessions of some conspirators,” said Peskov. Coup plot

The United States denies any involvement in the attempted coup in Belarus and the impending assassination attempt on Alexander Lukashenko, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday, TASS reports. “I can confirm there’s no basis in fact there,” Psaki said when asked to comment on the allegation of the US involvement in the attempted coup d’etat in Belarus and the assassination attempt on Lukashenko. The Russian military intelligence agency FSB said late last week that it arrested two men, including lawyer Yuri Zenkovich with a dual citizenship in the U.S. and Belarus,

There should be no artificially created pro-government parties in the country. Everything should follow an evolutionary path, since the Belarusian society “has no experience of existence in a multi-party system”. This was stated by Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting on the activities of political parties in the country. Alexander Lukashenko recalled that at the 6th Belarusian People’s Assembly it was decided to adopt amendments to the law “On Political Parties” in the near future, the press service reports. “I, like mo

Organisers of this year’s Eurovision song contest have disqualified Belarus, ruling that its entry song – by a band whose lyrics have been deemed in the past to mock anti-government protests – is in breach of competition guidelines. Earlier this month the organisers rejected an entry by Belarus, which has been gripped by politi

The change of power in Belarus will take place only through elections. This was stated by Alexander Lukashenko during his meeting with the team of the Molochny Mir dairy product manufacturer on 19 March in Grodno.

Eurovision has banned Belarus from entering a song to this year’s contest called I’ll Teach You, which appears to mock protesters who have taken to the streets against the dictator Alexander Lukashenko. The song, performed by the five-piece group Galasy ZMesta, was chosen by Belarus’s national broadcaster to compete in

Alexander Lukashenko believes that “it is necessary to build, and in some moments to rebuild” the work of the Security Council of Belarus. He stated this at a meeting with State Secretary of the Security Council Alexander Volfovich on 25 February, his press service reported.

Presidential elections were held in the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Belarus. The main intrigue was whether the head of the agency, Alexander Lukashenko, will remain in his post. Alexander Luka

Two journalists in Belarus have been convicted of violating public order and sentenced to two years in prison after they covered a protest against the authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko. Katsiaryna Andreyeva, 27, and Darya Chultsova, 23, both of the Polish-funded Belsat TV channel, were detained in November

More than a quarter of Belarusians believe that Alexander Lukashenko will cease to be President of Belarus in 2025 when his term ends. This is evidenced by the results of a public opinion“Belarusians’ views on the political crisis” conducted by the British analytical centre in the field of international relations Chatham House.

Father and son sought refuge after protests but are becoming a diplomatic issue for Sweden Two Belarusians who sought refuge in the Swedish embassy in Minsk in September are still there five months later, Sweden’s foreign ministry has announced, in a case turning into a diplomatic headache. A father and son, Vitaly and Vladislav Kuznechiki, tried to enter the Swedish embassy in the capital of Belarus on 11 Septembe

President who won rigged election last August has backing of Putin and has resumed attacks on dissent Nearly six months after huge street protests over a rigged presidential election were met with a ruthless, violent crackdown by his riot police, the Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko is still clinging on to power, and appears more determined than ever to prevail in his standoff with much of the country’s population.

Sponsors of IIHF championships had begun to drop out after violent government crackdown on protests The international ice hockey federation (IIHF) has said it will not hold this summer’s world championship in Belarus, amid concerns that it would be a propaganda coup for the country’s hockey-mad dictator,Alexander Lukashenko. In a statement, the federation said it had made the decision “in the face of the growing safety and security concerns related to both the rising political unrest and Covid-19”. M

Four independent journalists who have been critical of President Alexander Lukashenko face seven years in prison on charges of «large-scale tax evasion. Four staff at an independent Belarusian press association have been charged with tax evasion, a lawyer for the group's founder said Thursday. Yulia Slutskaya, a journalist who founded the Belarusian Press Club in 2016, has been charged with

“Riots, blitzkrieg or colour revolutions did not work in Belarus,” said Alexander Lukashenko during his visit of the special police force to the Minsk city police department, that is Minsk OMON or riot police, on Wednesday, 30 December. Below are the highlights of Lukashenko’s speech, the names of those whom he awarded and what he received in return.

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.

Roman Bondarenko, 31, died after being beaten by plainclothes police officers in Minsk Thousands of Belarusians have protested against the death in police custody of a military veteran and children’s art teacher arrested for his opposition to the authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko. Roman Bondarenko, a 31-year-old artist, was pummelled by several men believed to be plainclothes police officers in a Minsk courtyard known as the Square of Change on Wednesday in a dispute over ribbons indicating support for anti-government protests.

Two people face a line of riot police during a protest in Minsk on Sunday. Hundreds of protesters have been injured by police in recent months.

Доминик Рааб прокомментировал санкции против режима Лукашенко.«Мы приняли решительные меры против Лукашенко, его советника по национальной безопасности и начальника Генштаба. Им запрещено выезжать в Великобританию и переводить деньги через британские банки.Мы привлечем к ответственности тех, кто преследует собственных граждан», - заявил Доминик Рааб.We have taken decisive action against Alexander Lukashenko, his National Security Adviser and Chief of Staff.

РИГА, 23 сен — Sputnik. Латвия не считает, что состоявшаяся 23 сентября церемония инаугурации президента Беларуси Александра Лукашенко легитимизирует результаты выборов, заявило министерство иностранных дел Латвии, передает tvent.lv.

Эдгарс Ринкевичс написал в Twitter:— Секретная «инаугурация» Лукашенко в Беларуси не легитимизирует фальсификации выборов и его статуса главы государства.К сожалению, голоса белорусского народа и международного сообщества не имеют значения, только настоящий политический процесс может завершить политический кризис в Беларуси.Secret “inauguration” of Alexander Lukashenko in #Belarus does not legitimise election fraud and his status as head of state.

On Monday, 29 April, law enforcement agencies detained Andrei Vtyurin, the Deputy State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus and the former head of the security service of Alexander Lukashenko. In another development, Sergey Sivodedov, CEO of the national telecommunications company *Beltelecom was also detained.A criminal case was opened against Andrei Vtyurin, his cottage in Drozdy (Minsk micro district where many top state officials live) is sealed. He was reportedly charged with bribery.According to TUT.BY anonymous sources, Sergey Sivodedov was detained on corruption charges too. The press service of the KGB declined to comment on the detention of Vtyurin or Sicodedov. Inter...

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.