On Tuesday, March 20, the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree to charge rent on land under power lines, oil and gas pipelines.
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March 21, 2007A Russian ultra-right movement has launched a campaign to propose Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko as a candidate for Russia’s 2008 presidential election, the Radio Free Europe reported on Wednesday.
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February 28, 2007
Negotiations on an Iran sanctions resolution were unexpectedly postponed Tuesday because of Russia’s anger at the United States for raising the plight of an opposition leader in Belarus in the U.N. Security Council, The Associated Press news agency reports.
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December 13, 2006
Former Belarussian presidential candidate Alexander Milinkevich has said he intends to spend the prize money given to him as part of the Sakharov Prize in support of political prisoners.
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December 12, 2006Belarus’ president said Friday he supported an estimated $2.5-billion project to build a nuclear power plant in the country to cut its dependence on energy imports, Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reports.
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December 4, 2006Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev has arrived in Minsk for talks with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, ahead of a CIS summit.
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November 27, 2006Belarusian police detained opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich on Thursday during a visit to a province where he was gathering signatures in support of candidates for local elections, his spokesman said.
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November 24, 2006“Iran is interested in cooperation with Belarus and is ready to develop interaction in all spheres,†Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko arrived in Iran on a three-day visit Sunday to discuss boosting trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.
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November 7, 2006Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko wants to improve relations with the United States, today told the new U.S. ambassador to Belarus, Karen Stewart, AP reports.
Lukashenko said Minsk wants an “open and constructive†dialogue with Washington on the basis of “equality, mutual respect, and consideration†of each other’s interests.“
â€The differences in views on a number of problems should not stand in the way of steps to bolster joint efforts in areas where our approaches coincide,“ he was quoted by Interfax as saying.
Lukashenko said that he hoped Stewart, whom the president credited with knowing Belarus well and having extensive experience, would help broaden â€mutually beneficial and respectful relations between our countries.“
The United States has dubbed Lukashenko â€Europe’s last dictator“. The Belarusian leader has repeatedly accused the Washington of seeking his ouster.
However the United States is the biggest source of foreign investment in Belarus. Trade with the United States accounts for about 3 percent of Belarus’ foreign trade, Xinhua adds.
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October 27, 2006A Minsk court sentenced a Belarusian rights activist to two years at a prison colony Monday for saying authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko needed a psychiatric examination, AP reports.
In convicting Yekaterina Sadovskaya, the Leninsky District Court pointed to the unpublished statement by her organization Veche that also called for a boycott of the March presidential election and accused Russian special agents of supporting “the Belarusian dictator.â€
“In Belarus, they even try you for your thoughts,†Sadovskaya said after the sentence was handed down. “Lukashenko has turned human rights in Belarus into an empty sound.â€
Police found and confiscated the Jan. 21-dated statement during a search of her apartment even though she had not distributed it anywhere. During the trial, she confirmed she was the author of the statement.
The court also fined her 4 million Belarusian rubles ($2,000) for moral damages that she allegedly inflicted against judges in the provincial town of Kirov during a trial of local residents.
The 60-year-old activist has been arrested and fined several times in the past for trying to organize pickets demanding that Belarusian authorities respect human rights.
Lukashenko, who has ruled the former Soviet republic for more than a decade, is a pariah in the West for his iron-fisted ruled, quashing all dissent.
Western observers say the March vote was severely flawed.
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October 25, 2006
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