BELARUS popularity and BELARUS trends

CANNES, France - A bleak morality tale of treason, revenge and dignity, played out in the forested wilds of Nazi-occupied Belarus during World War II, injected a chilling note to the Cannes race on Friday. “In the Fog”, the austere second feature film by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, is set on the Western frontier of the Soviet Union in 1942, where local partisans have risen up ...

In pictures: the international fire festival in Minsk, Belarus.

Shares of CNR, China's second-largest train maker, gained Monday after delivery of two electric locomotives to Belarus.

The Swedish news show Uppdrag Granskning has posted an hour-long investigative journalism piece establishing the link between the giant Swedish telcoms company Teliasonera and oppressive regimes around the world. Teliasonera sold and supported network equipment that was used to spy on dissidents, journalists, political reformers, union leaders, and the general public in Belarus, Uzbekistan, Aze...

Le Fonds monétaire international a mis en garde jeudi le Bélarus, une ex-république soviétique confrontée en 2011 à une grave crise économique et financière, contre les risques d'une nouvelle spirale inflationniste. "Poursuivre des objectifs de croissance élevée et de hausse des salaires pourrait...

Iryna, the young Belarus woman who created a flutter in a city suburb recently, was visibly cheerful at the Government General Hospital on Tuesday.

A delegation from China's National People's Congress (NPC) left Beijing on Tuesday for good-will visits to Finland, Belarus and Cambodia.

Team clinches top spot in the Helsinki pool at the IIHF World Hockey Championship

Mission accomplished.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The United States survived an early scare to beat Belarus 5-3 while Finland turned on the style to destroy France 7-1 in Group H action at the ice hockey world championships in Helsinki on Thursday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel drew a parallel between Ukraine and its authoritarian neighbor Belarus, saying people in those countries are still living under dictatorship and repression.

La chancelière allemande Angela Merkel a fait un parallèle entre l’Ukraine et son voisin autoritaire le Belarus jeudi au Parlement, en déclarant que les citoyens des deux pays ...lire la suitehistoires liées17:53 La Bourse de Paris signe un modeste rebond, sans oublier la Grèce (+0,37%)17:51 Diplomatie: Hollande choisit un spécialiste de la Chine pour le conseiller17:25 Des passe-partout pour v...

Aksana Miankova put down a stunning marker for the defence of her title in London when she threw a Belarus national record of 78.19 metres, the third longest in the event’s history.

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) -- Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka of Belarus cruised past Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 6-3 on Saturday to reach the final of the Porsche Grand Prix.

Following the release last week of two opposition leaders from prison in Belarus, the UN human rights office today called on the country’s authorities to begin dialogue with the opposition and to unconditionally release all prisoners who are serving sentences for exercising their fundamental human rights.

BELARUS bombshell Katsia Zingarevich, 23, is married to Reading’s new owner

The prisoner, Andrei Sannikov, said he was pardoned by President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, a move that might be intended to ease Belarus’s tensions with the European Union.

Headline Title:  Belarus urged to free remaining prisoners of conscience after two released 16 April 2012 A decision to release two Belarusian prisoners of conscience including an opposition presidential candidate is a step in the right direction but the government now needs ...

Former presidential candidate and former deputy foreign minister Andrei Sannikov released from prison following pressure by EU

MINSK, Belarus (AP) -- A prominent Belarusian opposition activist was released Sunday in a move that followed crippling sanctions introduced by the West in response to a crackdown on dissent by the country's authoritarian president...

Andreï Sannikov, principal adversaire d'Alexandre Loukachenko à la...

About two-thirds of the world believes that the press enjoys a lot of freedom in their countries, according to a new survey. Gallup conducted a poll of 1,000 people in 133 countries in 2011. It found that countries in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and the former Soviet Union have the least perceived press freedom. Belarus ranked at the bottom, with just 23% of people reporting that their...

Le Parlement européen condamne de nouveau la dernière dictature d'Europe. Dans une résolution, il s'émeut de l'exécution des deux jeunes tenus pour…

BELARUS IS preventing opponents of authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko from leaving the country, in retaliation for European Union sanctions against his allies.

Another scandal is brewing in the relations between Belarus and the European Union. This time, it goes about the death sentences against two young men, who were found guilty of conducting the terrorist act in the subway system of the Belarusian capital, Minsk. The two convicts were sentenced to death penalty on November 30, 2011

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Belarusian authorities should take immediate steps to abolish the death penalty. (Moscow) – Belarusian authorities should take immediate steps to abolish the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today. Belarus should also investigate allegations of serious violations, including torture, in the trials of Dzmit...

Two men convicted of carrying out a 2011 bombing in Minsk have been put to death, drawing international condemnation

Belarus has executed one of two men convicted for a fatal 2011 metro bomb attack, despite protest from European human rights groups and calls for a re-trial, a relative of the executed man said on Saturday.  

Journalists, opposition political figures and human rights workers have been either prevented from entering the European Union or informed that they are no longer permitted to leave Belarus.

Bereits die Verkündung des Urteils gegen die Todeskandidaten mobilisierte 270.000 Personen in Belarus. Die Exekution der beiden Männer könnte noch größere Auswirkungen haben. mehr...

New submitter Warmlight writes "The BBC reports that 'Bahrain and Belarus have been added to Reporters Without Borders' annual list of "enemies of the internet." They join 10 other nations on the campaign group's register of states that restrict net access, filter content and imprison bloggers. India and Kazakhstan have also joined RWB's list of "countries under surveillance" because of concern...

LONDON - Bahrain and Belarus have been added to Reporters Without Borders’ annual list of ‘enemies of the internet’. They join 10 other nations on the campaign group’s register of states that restrict net access, filter content and imprison bloggers. India and Kazakhstan have also joined RWB’s list of ‘countries under surveillance’ because of concerns ...

LONDON - Bahrain and Belarus have been added to Reporters Without Borders’ annual list of ‘enemies of the internet’. They join 10 other nations on the campaign group’s register of states that restrict net access, filter content and imprison bloggers. India and Kazakhstan have also joined RWB’s list of ‘countries under surveillance’ because of concerns ...

REPORTERS Without Borders has added Bahrain and Belarus to its list of "Enemies of the Internet".

Bahrain and Belarus join Reporters Without Borders' annual list of the countries with the most repressive policies against cyber-dissidents.

Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that defends journalists and fights censorship, on Monday added the governments of Bahrain and Belarus to its 2012 list of Internet Enemies—an inventory of governments worldwide that filter online content, restrict their citizens’ Internet access, track cyber dissidents and use the Web to spread pro-government propagan...

Le Fonds monétaire international a indiqué lundi qu'il refusait de négocier un prêt avec le Bélarus, dont il trouve la politique économique beaucoup trop éloignée de ses recommandations. "Nous ne sommes pas prêts à commencer des négociations", a affirmé dans un communiqué le chef de mission du FMI,...

Mercurial Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko lashed out Sunday at recent sanctions imposed by Europe over his rights record by saying he would rather be branded a dictator than be gay

The mercurial Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko lashed out Sunday at recent sanctions imposed by Europe over his rights record by saying he would rather be branded a dictator than be gay.

THE European Union has decided to recall its ambassadors to Belarus for consultations.

[[369378]] BRUXELLES (AFP) : Le ton est brutalement monté mardi entre l'UE et le Bélarus avec le rappel de tous les ambassadeurs en poste à Minsk pour protester contre la décision d'Alexandre Loukachenko d'expulser les représentants de l'UE et de la Pologne après les nouvelles sanctions européennes...

The EU is recalling all member countries' ambassadors from Belarus after the government's request for the EU and Polish envoys to leave.

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Venezuelan leader says doctors have found a lesion where a tumor was located

Syria may be growing increasingly isolated -- but it's not entirely alone. China and Russia, the two U.N. powerhouses who vetoed a similar resolution in the U.N. Security Council two weeks ago, remained steadfast in their support for Syria, casting their votes again on Thursday against a U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning Damascus. It passed, 137-12. China's Vice Foreign Minister ...

Bonne nouvelle pour la France. Les protégées de Nicolas Escudé recevront la Slovénie en match de barrage du groupe mondial II de la Fed Cup les 21 et 22 avril pour éviter de tomber en troisième division. Evitant ainsi le Bélarus de Victoria Azarenka, la Chine de Na Li ou encore la Grande-Bretagne.

Playing with Liezel Huber, Venus Williams helped complete a 5-0 shutout of Belarus in the Fed Cup, her first competitive match since withdrawing from the United States Open.

Serena Williams and Christina McHale earned singles victories Saturday against Belarus to give the USA a 2-0 lead in Fed Cup match.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko congratulated Victoria Azarenka for winning the Australian Open women's title on Saturday and awarded her the Order of the Motherland.

Wien (OTS) - "Mit dem heute im Ministerrat beschlossenen Abkommen über Zusammenarbeit und gegenseitige Amtshilfe in Zollangelegenheiten zwischen den Republiken Österreich und Belarus konnte ein weiterer Schritt für eine verbesserte Betrugsbekämpfung erzielt werden", so Finanzstaatssekretär ...

MINSK, Belarus (AP) -- Belarus' authoritarian government further tightened its control over citizens' access to Internet on Friday with a new law that obliges service providers to monitor users....

Ex-Soviet Belarus unveiled tough new Internet restrictions on Friday that limit public access to opposition websites and impose fines on providers for failing to monitor their clients.

A new law in Belarus will restrict access to foreign websites, and will require Internet cafes and clubs to report users who visit forbidden pag…

Release Time:  For Immediate Release On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, the President signed into law: H.R. 515, the "Belarus Democracy and Human Rights Act of 2011," which reauthorizes and amends the Belarus Democracy Act of 2004; H.R. 789, which designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located in Little Ferry, N...

Belarus: small. Proud. Kvass-drinking. A long history of dubious human rights and piddling dictatorship. And now, bound to a law that makes it illegal to browse foreign websites. Поздравляю! More »

Caroline, the girlfriend of Northern Ireland golf star Rory McIlroy, did her own version of the Macarena with Victoria Azarenka, the world No3 from Belarus.

AN Australian filmmaker, Kitty Green of Melbourne, has been detained and interrogated by KGB agents in Belarus for filming a protest.

AN Australian filmmaker has been detained and interrogated by KGB agents in Belarus for filming a protest.

Russia, Ukraine and Belarus vowed to be healthy democracies 20 years ago - it’s time to give their citizens what they were promised

Ils ont tous les deux 25 ans, ils sont condamnés à la peine de mort. La Cour suprême du Bélarus a rendu son verdict mercredi. Les deux jeunes hommes…

MINSK (AFP) - The supreme court of Belarus on Wednesday sentenced to young men to death for staging a Minsk metro bombing in April that killed 15 people in the country's worst post-Soviet era attack. "The court believes that (they) pose an exceptional danger to society and thus require the ultimate punishment," the judge told the court. The same judge had earlier found Dmitry Konovalov guilty o...

A court in Belarus today sentenced two men to death for carrying out a bomb attack at a metro station in central Minsk that killed 15 people and wounded scores of others.

Crisis-struck Belarus agrees a deal with Russia that will save it 60% on its gas bills in return for selling its pipelines.

MINSK (Reuters) - A Belarusian court on Thursday sentenced leading human rights activist Ales Belyatsky to 4 1/2 years in prison on tax evasion charges in a case that the European Union has condemned as politically motivated.