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- Mohammed greets Belarus
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- Belarus marks 65th anniversary of end of Nazi occupation
MINSK: Belarus yesterday marked the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Minsk from Nazi forces with a Soviet-style military parade and a rousing speech by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. Some 160 tanks, armored vehicles and artillery
- Kuwaiti leadership congratulates Belarus on nat''l day
KUWAIT, July 3 (KUNA) -- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable of congratulations on Friday to Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on the occasion of his country's national day. His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh
- Venezuela among the countries with poor governance
Venezuela, together with Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Belarus and Eritrea, is one of the countries with poor performance worldwide, according to the report on Worldwide Governance Indicators published by the World Bank on a yearly basis. Developing countries
- Belarus-Venezuela Joint Venture Gets Three Oil Wells
An act of the Venezuelan Oil and Energy Ministry assigning three new oil wells to the Belarusian-Venezuelan joint oil extraction venture, Petrolera BeloVenesolana, has been signed in Minsk. The correspondent of Interfax-West reported that the document
- Belarus to join only equal alliances -- Lukashenko
MINSK, July 2 (Itar-Tass) -- Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said his country would be an active member of only equal alliances. ?Independent Belarus will be an active participants only in the alliances that are based on mutual respect, equal
- Belarus Receives $679 Million Second Tranche IMF Loan
(RTTNews) - Belarus has received a second tranche of $679 million from the revised $3.52 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, the Belarussian central bank said Thursday. The second tranche of the IMF loan is aimed at stabilizing the the former
- Lukashenko Vows Belarus Won't Copy Western Political System
President Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday that Belarus Won't copy Western political systems despite efforts to forge closer ties with the Europe Union. 'It becomes evident that Belarus must not fully copy the Western political system,' Lukashenko was
- Belarus Releases Jailed U.S. Lawyer
U.S. lawyer Emanuel Zeltser walking free from a prison in Mogilyov, 200 kilometers east of Minsk, on Tuesday. MINSK ? An ailing U.S. lawyer who was imprisoned in Belarus last year on charges of using fake documents and attempted industrial espionage
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After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a two-state union on 8 December 1999 envisioning greater political and economic integration but, to date, neither side has actively sought to implement the accord.
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