http://www.rferl.org/archive/Belarus/latest/652/658.html RFE/RL's latest news, features, commentary, and multimedia content on Belarus http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/Belarus/latest/652/658.html en-US Copyright 2009 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:29:32 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL Youth activists in Minsk have held a so-called "orange" protest against the government of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Youth_Activists_In_Belarus_Stage_Orange_Action/1883357.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Youth_Activists_In_Belarus_Stage_Orange_Action/1883357.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:38:51 +0000 From Our Bureaus Russia has confirmed it wants to join the World Trade Organization and said members of its customs union with Kazakhstan and Belarus would seek to join as separate entities. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Says_It_Wants_To_Join_WTO_Soon/1881277.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Says_It_Wants_To_Join_WTO_Soon/1881277.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:38:37 +0000 News The European Union continues what officials in Brussels describe as a "pragmatic" policy of keeping in place a travel ban on top Belarusian officials -- but not enforcing it, as long as Minsk continues to respond to the bloc's overtures. http://www.rferl.org/content/Pragmatic_EU_To_Keep_Belarus_Sanctions_In_Suspension/1879712.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Pragmatic_EU_To_Keep_Belarus_Sanctions_In_Suspension/1879712.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:02:28 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Pragmatic_EU_To_Keep_Belarus_Sanctions_In_Suspension/1879712.html#relatedInfoContainer The World Health Organization (WHO) says antiviral medicines like Tamiflu should be used much earlier by doctors in order to prevent deaths from swine flu. The UN agency also says it is sending more supplies of antivirals to developing countries most affected by swine flu. Those countries include Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine. http://www.rferl.org/content/Amplifier_WHO_Urges_Doctors_To_Use_Antiviral_Drugs_Sooner_To_Prevent_Swine_Flu_Deaths/1877353.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Amplifier_WHO_Urges_Doctors_To_Use_Antiviral_Drugs_Sooner_To_Prevent_Swine_Flu_Deaths/1877353.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:10:01 +0000 News http://www.rferl.org/content/Amplifier_WHO_Urges_Doctors_To_Use_Antiviral_Drugs_Sooner_To_Prevent_Swine_Flu_Deaths/1877353.html#relatedInfoContainer Before the autumn revolutions in Eastern Europe, there was the Moscow Spring in the Soviet Union. In 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev's reform policies hit their high-water mark, as the USSR held its first competitive elections, press freedom flourished, and civil society awakened. http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:14:45 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html#relatedInfoContainer The rights watchdog Amnesty International is demanding that authorities in Ukraine "immediately and unconditionally" release Belarusian activist Ihar Koktysh. http://www.rferl.org/content/Amnesty_Urges_Ukraine_To_Release_Belarusian_Prisoner_Of_Conscience/1876213.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Amnesty_Urges_Ukraine_To_Release_Belarusian_Prisoner_Of_Conscience/1876213.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:01:47 +0000 Watchdog http://www.rferl.org/content/Amnesty_Urges_Ukraine_To_Release_Belarusian_Prisoner_Of_Conscience/1876213.html#relatedInfoContainer Russian film director Maria Solovtsova has died in the Belarus capital, Minsk, after having flu-like symptoms, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Film_Director_Dies_Of_Flu_In_Belarus_/1875808.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russian_Film_Director_Dies_Of_Flu_In_Belarus_/1875808.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:57:08 +0000 From Our Bureaus As the swine-flu virus continues to spread through the Balkans and the former Soviet Union, the measures taken by some governments range from bizarre and befuddled to possibly political. http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:11:26 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html#relatedInfoContainer A jailed Belarus opposition activist has been transferred to a prison hospital, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/HungerStriking_Belarusian_Activist_Moved_To_Prison_Hospital/1872495.html http://www.rferl.org/content/HungerStriking_Belarusian_Activist_Moved_To_Prison_Hospital/1872495.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:27:04 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/HungerStriking_Belarusian_Activist_Moved_To_Prison_Hospital/1872495.html#relatedInfoContainer Belarusian authorities have refused to issue a visa to the director of the Warsaw-based Belsat television company that broadcasts to Belarus, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Polish_TV_Company_Director_Refused_Belarusian_Visa/1871462.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Polish_TV_Company_Director_Refused_Belarusian_Visa/1871462.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:41:42 +0000 From Our Bureaus A group of Belarusian lawmakers will travel to Georgia and its breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to decide if they should have parliamentary discussions about the recognizing the regions as independent states, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Belarusian_Parliamentarians_To_Visit_South_Ossetia_Abkhazia_/1870503.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Belarusian_Parliamentarians_To_Visit_South_Ossetia_Abkhazia_/1870503.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:27:07 +0000 From Our Bureaus As concerns over massive outbreaks of swine flu rise in many countries with the onset of the influenza season, doctors say much is misunderstood about how people contract the disease. We speak to experts to learn more, and whether there is any cause for panic. RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Unmasking_The_Truth_About_Swine_Flu/1869526.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Unmasking_The_Truth_About_Swine_Flu/1869526.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:28:25 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Unmasking_The_Truth_About_Swine_Flu/1869526.html#relatedInfoContainer Last week’s announcement that the next Russian census will be held in 2010 as originally scheduled is welcome news indeed. There had been considerable speculation that the census had been delayed largely for political reasons, and it is encouraging to think that the opinions of experts who say the census information is crucially needed were heeded in this case. http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Is_Dying_To_Learn_Its_Census_Data/1869329.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Is_Dying_To_Learn_Its_Census_Data/1869329.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:38:55 +0000 Commentary http://www.rferl.org/content/Russia_Is_Dying_To_Learn_Its_Census_Data/1869329.html#relatedInfoContainer The first death caused by the H1N1 or swine-flu virus has been reported in Belarus, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/First_SwineFlu_Death_Reported_In_Belarus/1869224.html http://www.rferl.org/content/First_SwineFlu_Death_Reported_In_Belarus/1869224.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:22:56 +0000 From Our Bureaus Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people in countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain have mixed feelings about the changes democracy and capitalism have brought to their lives. A new survey finds general satisfaction but also disappointment. http://www.rferl.org/content/Poll_Finds_Generational_Split_In_View_Of_Postcommunist_Reforms/1868199.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Poll_Finds_Generational_Split_In_View_Of_Postcommunist_Reforms/1868199.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:52:01 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Poll_Finds_Generational_Split_In_View_Of_Postcommunist_Reforms/1868199.html#relatedInfoContainer The Belarusian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for a 25-year-old man found guilty of a double murder and robbery, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Belarusian_Supreme_Court_Upholds_Death_Sentence/1863544.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Belarusian_Supreme_Court_Upholds_Death_Sentence/1863544.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:45:14 +0000 From Our Bureaus The European Union's curious history of applying punitive sanctions on non-member states is likely to prove short-lived. After EU foreign ministers decided on October 27 to remove all remaining restrictions on Uzbekistan, which has one of the world's most repressive regimes, the end of the whole idea of sanctions cannot be far away. http://www.rferl.org/content/The_EUs_Learning_Curve_Heralds_Beginning_Of_End_Of_Sanctions/1863169.html http://www.rferl.org/content/The_EUs_Learning_Curve_Heralds_Beginning_Of_End_Of_Sanctions/1863169.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:51:30 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/The_EUs_Learning_Curve_Heralds_Beginning_Of_End_Of_Sanctions/1863169.html#relatedInfoContainer The Communist Party of Belarus has changed its name, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Belarusian_Communist_Party_Changes_Its_Name/1862492.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Belarusian_Communist_Party_Changes_Its_Name/1862492.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:25:07 +0000 From Our Bureaus What's your idea of the best place in which to live? Many people would probably answer that palm trees and a gleaming beach would be a good start to their idea of earthly paradise. But in real life, the country which scores best on a whole range of economic and quality-of-life issues is a good deal colder. It's Finland. That's what the 2009 Prosperity Index issued by the British-based think tank the Legatum Institute finds. http://www.rferl.org/content/Wheres_The_Best_Place_To_Live_Prosperity_Index_Offers_A_Few_Surprises/1861387.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Wheres_The_Best_Place_To_Live_Prosperity_Index_Offers_A_Few_Surprises/1861387.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:48:40 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Wheres_The_Best_Place_To_Live_Prosperity_Index_Offers_A_Few_Surprises/1861387.html#relatedInfoContainer