A delegation from the International Ice Hockey Federation has visited Belarus to evaluate it as a possible host of the 2014 world ice hockey championships.
Forget diplomatic niceties. No more speeches on multilateral political treaties, or long-winded explanations of Belarus's unique brand of democracy. Instead: Sell Belarus -- its tractors, fertilizers, textiles -- and its opportunities. Find and bring other people's money to invest.
If it waits too long, the EU could find its neighbors fall one by one further under the pernicious influence of a weakened, but still powerful, Russia. Belarus could prove a good test case.
The protestant New Life Church in Minsk has failed again in an attempt to have its property and church returned to it, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
The Belarusian Foreign Affairs Ministry has revoked the accreditation of a correspondent for the Polish daily "Gazeta Wyborcza," RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
The Lenin district court in Minsk has found three activists of the Youth Front guilty of organizing an unsanctioned public gathering and fined them.
Police in Minsk detained five activists of the Youth Front movement today, RFE/RL’s Belarusian Service reports.
According to organizers, the dismantled monuments could be collected in an open-air museum around the so-called Stalin Line memorial near Minsk, making them available for viewing.
The U.S. State Department has issued its annual report assessing human rights around the world during 2008, and Russia and a number of European and Caucasus countries come in for stiff criticism. The report describes civil liberties as "under siege" in Russia, and says that Belarus continues to have "very poor" rights practices. We summarize the report in a two-part series. Here in Part 2, we look at the assessment of Eastern European and Caucasus states.
Hit by the economic crisis, Belarus is reaching out to the West -- at least in the pages of the "IHT."
EU foreign ministers are meeting to discuss the future of the bloc's relations with its eastern neighbors, a month ahead of a summit at which it is expected to offer six countries -- Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Belarus -- an upgrade of its European Neighborhood Policy called the Eastern Partnership. Participation in the partnership could lead to free trade and visa-free travel with the EU, but will not entail an offer of an eventual EU membership.
The leaders of the unregistered Youth Front movement in Belarus have asked the authorities to allow them to hold a founding congress in 30 cities across the country.
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