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Belarusian Oppositionist Released After 15 Days In Prison cite: (rferl.org): March 23, 2006: A Belarusian opposition leader was released after 15 days in prison for organizing an unauthorized preelection rally against President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. [MORE HERE]

BELARUS VOTES 2006 cite: (rferl.org): On February 14, RFE/RL held a briefing with three experts on the Belarusian election. The panel discussion took place in Washington, D.C.
Listen to the complete panel discussion (about 60 minutes): Real Audio

Analysis: The Peculiarities Of Political Discourse In Belarus cite: (rferl.org): Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka made a nearly four-hour-long televised speech to some 2,500 handpicked loyalists at a gathering called the All-Belarusian People's Assembly in Minsk on March 2. The speech was very distinctive of Lukashenka's oratorical skills and fully reflected the authoritarian character of official political discourse in Belarus. . . [MORE HERE]

Cartoons on Belarus' President Lukashenka Printed Across Europe cite: (send2press.com): On February 27, 2006, four leading Central European newspapers, including Slovak daily SME, Polish Gazeta Wyborcza, Czech Lidove Noviny and Hungarian Magyar Hirlap, each printed cartoons on Lukashenko. . . [MORE HERE]

Belarus: As Vote Nears, Regime Thins Out Opposition Ranks cite: (rferl.org): Courts in Minsk on March 9 handed down 15-day prison sentences to Belarusian opposition leader Vintsuk Vyachorka, the deputy campaign head for opposition presidential candidate Alyaksandr Milinkevich - the main political rival to incumbent President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in the March 19 presidential vote. Nine other Milinkevich supporters were also given the same sentence. All were found guilty of organizing unsanctioned campaign stops in Minsk the previous day. Two days earlier, a Milinkevich supporter was heavily fined, and another jailed, on similar offenses. It appears that Lukashenka's regime is doing what it can to prevent the public from meeting with members of the political opposition in the run-up to the vote. . . [MORE HERE]

Lukashenkas Bandits Kidnap People. Why does the World Community Keep Silent? cite: (belreview.cz): In Belarus opponents of Alyaksandr Lukashenka's regime are being abducted. Unknown representatives of law-enforcement agencies in mufti seize people in the streets, without producing any credentials, and take them to police departments, and then to courts, where obedient judges pass sentences on thought-up charges. . . [MORE HERE]

Belarus Now: Information and Analytical Bulletin: Politics, Economics & Finance cite: (): An English language on-line edition available on the Internet. Covers news in Belarusian politics, business and finance, providing an independent source of credible information on the latest developments in the country. . . . [MORE HERE]

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About Belarus

Wikipedia on Belarus cite: (en.wikipedia.org): Wikipedia is a free online open source encyclopdeia. . . [MORE HERE]

Virtual Guide to Belarus cite: (belarusguide.com): Belarusian history, politics, culture and art. Diaspora around the World, History of Belarus as Nuclear Power, Belarusian Straw weaving, arts & crafts. . . [MORE HERE]

A Country Study: Belarus cite: (loc.gov): Library of Congress preface to its online book on Belarus: "At the end of 1991, the formal liquidation of the Soviet Union was the surprisingly swift result of partially hidden decrepitude and centrifugal forces within that empire. Of the fifteen "new" states that emerged from the process, many had been independent political entities at some time in the past. Aside from their coverage in the 1991 Soviet Union: A Country Study, none had received individual treatment in this series, however. Belarus and Moldova: Country Studies is the second in a new subseries describing the fifteen post-Soviet republics, both as they existed before and during the Soviet era and as they have developed since 1991. This volume covers Belarus and Moldova, two nations on the western border of what was once the Soviet Union." . . . [MORE HERE]

CIA Factbook about Belarus cite: (cia.gov): Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications, Transportation, Military and Transnational Issues . . . [MORE HERE]

The Embassy of the Republic of Belarus to the USA cite: (belarusembassy.org): News, Official information and general informatin about Belarus. . . . [MORE HERE]

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