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State Personnel Policy: staff and loyalty shortages

Analysis of the President Lukashenko’s government staffing policy reform in 2013 shows its two features. Firstly, officials close to President...

Social tensions in the workforce have not decreased

On April 1st, workers at Vitebsk House-Building construction company refused to go to work due to wage delays. Tensions in the workforce remain high...

Conflicts within ruling group result in contradicting laws

On March 30th, the government issued a regulation No 241 “Small and Medium Enterprises Development in Belarus”, which bans the revision...

Opinion polls: stable pessimism and growing presidents popularity

On March 29th, Independent Institute for Socio-Economic and Political Studies published March opinion polls results in Belarus. 1513 Belarusians were...

Interior Ministry is interested in independent criticism of the police during the reforms period

On March 25th, former Deputy Interior Minister, Public Safety Chief Poluden was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison and property confiscation for abuse...

The opposition cannot solve the problem of low political activity among Belarusians

On 24 March, an authorized demonstration was held by opposition forces in Minsk to mark the 95th anniversary of the Declaration of the Belarusian...

Housing construction plans’ fulfillment is an important factor in Lukashenko’s election programme

On March 22nd, Belarus’ Deputy Prime Minister Prokopovich said that the country’s housing construction programme was balanced, and the...

Protracting negotiations is Lukahsenko’s primary tactics

On March 15th, President Lukashenko took part in the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Belarus and Russia. Putin and...

Opposition is against the nomenclature privatization

On March 15th several members of the Belarus’ Supreme Council of the 13th convocation signed a petition against the so-called...

Minsk demonstrates readiness to make concessions to the Kremlin

On March 15th, Presidents Lukashenko and Putin will meet at the Supreme Council of the Belarus and Russia Union State meeting. In the upcoming talks...

Staff shifts in the Belarusian Foreign Ministry

Government’s Regulation No 142 of March 4th, 2013 changed the leadership in several bilateral commissions in the Ministry of Foreign...

Tighter public policy – reaction to lack of resources

On February 26th, at the Council for Business Development meeting President Lukashenko said that he would persecute any attempts by businesses to...

“Tell the Truth!” to suspend negotiations about single candidate and to focus on working with electorate

On February 27th, “Tell the Truth!” civil campaign leaders announced that they were temporarily suspending participation in the...

The case of Lida-based Poles’ House updated

On February 20th, Bealrus’ Investigative Committee reported that in 2011 there was an attempt to blow up the building of the Poles’ House...

Prospects for leftist parties’ coalition in Belarus

On February 17th, a meeting of representatives from a number of left-wing parties and movements took place in Minsk. Centrifugal processes continue...

Administrative Reform Creates New Opportunities for Opposition

Chairman of the Central Election Commission Ms. Ermoshina said, that village Council of Deputies could be abolished in Belarus. Administrative...

Foreign Investors Should Take Ongoing State Reform into Account

On February 11th, Minsk regional court sentenced former Deputy Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee Igor Vasilyev, charged with bribery, to...

Harsh personnel policies will not result in nomenclature coup

On February 8th, new President Property Management Department Head Vladimir Sheyman reported to President Lukashenko that the Investigation Committee...

Political prisoner Statkevich is still a player in political field

On February 5th, website of Statkevich (he is a former presidential candidate and political prisoner) published his 2nd letter from prison....

State Awards Policy as Stability Factor for Authorities

On February 1st, President Lukashenko conferred state awards to representatives of industry, construction, civil servants, law enforcement, military,...

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Belarus sees no prospects for cooperation with UN Human Rights Council rapporteur, envoy says
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Belarus : refusal to cooperate triggers renewal of the mandate by the UN Human rights Council
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