More than 300 people gathered in central Minsk, to protest new rules for non-food market stalls. The February 28 rally was held to protest a new regulation that small private businesses should obtain certificates guaranteeing the quality of their products and also show proof of origin.
Two former officers from the Belarusian KGB have been put on trial in Minsk along with 15 other defendants on charges of being members of one of the country's largest distribution rings for illegal narcotics.
Some 500 people rallied in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on February 28 to demand that the government scrap a new regulation, which protesters say imposes an unfair burden on small private businesses.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Union State of Russia and Belarus is continuing to develop and is setting the tone for relations between all countries that once were part of the Soviet Union.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev says that despite the ongoing economic crisis faced by member-states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EES), the alliance's overall economic potential and market volume will remain resilient.
As owners of small businesses demonstrated against new government regulations in the Belarusian capital, a fleet of snow plows drove up close by, setting off scuffles with the protesters. (RFE/RL's Belarusian Service)
An activist from Tajikistan's opposition Group 24, Shabnam Hudoidodova, has been released from custody in Belarus after being held for more than eight months.
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has welcomed a decision by the European Union to abandon most sanctions against the country over its rights and democracy record.
Russia has welcomed a decision by EU foreign ministers to lift sanctions against Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka over the country's rights and democracy record.
EU foreign ministers have voted to abandon a handful of sanctions against Belarus over its rights and democracy record and adopted an EU Council text praising mutual cooperation, furthering a thaw that critics fear will let the authoritarian regime in Minsk off the hook too quickly.
Hundreds of Belarusian vendors have rallied in Minsk, protesting a presidential decree introducing new regulations for retailers.
EU foreign ministers are poised to allow most of the bloc's sanctions against Belarus to expire when they meet next week in Brussels, diplomatic sources have told RFE/RL, but an arms embargo will apparently remain in place.
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