Butt out, Belarus supremo tells West
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BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko lashed out at critics in the West yesterday after winning a referendum to allow him to seek a third term in office.
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The United Nations demanded Belarus free an American arrested while working on a United Nations project in the ex-Soviet republic, but the country's spy service on Thursday insisted the man was not protected by ...
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced a referendum asking voters to remove term limits so he can seek five more years in office, a change that will almost certainly isolate him even more from foreign governments that have condemned his authoritarian rule.
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Belarus said Thursday it regretted President Bush's decision to impose economic sanctions on the ex-Soviet republic, calling it an "unfriendly step."
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There should be no customs borders between Belarus and Russia, Belarussian Deputy Prime Minister Vasily Dolgolev said on Tuesday.
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Belarussian authorities have dismissed the new critical remarks some Western politicians made on Thursday.
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Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko,  says there will be no people's revolutions in his country.
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Kosovo Albanians told the West on Friday to stop wasting time trying to win over Russia to the province's secession from Serbia and prepare for a unilateral declaration of independence.
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The Belarussian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement following the decision of the United Nations not to discuss a draft resolution on human rights in Belarus submitted to the General Assembly by the United ...
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Belarus' president on Friday dismissed speculation that his two days of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin were aimed at a quick union between the two countries that Putin would head.
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Russia s President Vladimir Putin, quoted by Associated Press, said on Monday, August 23, that Russia and Belarus have put a sharp dispute over natural gas deliveries behind them.
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Russsia is "backsliding" on democracy  and the bloc must speak to Moscow frankly about it as an equal  partner, the European Union's incoming External Relations  Commissioner said Tuesday.
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The president of Belarus, confident of  victory in a referendum on Sunday to extend his rule, promised  to serve his people better if they voted "yes" and told the  West to keep criticism of his rule to itself.
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Belarus - named by the US as an 'outpost of tyranny' - is isolated but may not go the way of Ukraine, the BBC's Leonid Ragozin reports.
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Belarus, pilloried abroad for a referendum allowing its president to prolong his stay in office, hit back at Washington on Friday by denouncing next week's cliffhanger presidential election as undemocratic.
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A union between Russia and Belarus was pushed back further Monday when President Vladimir Putin told his counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that the countries would not be able to agree on a common currency at least until 2006.
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MINSK, Belarus -- President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus said yesterday that he won a mandate from voters to stay in power in a weekend referendum scrapping presidential term limits, but foreign observers said the vote was marred by violations and thousands of people protested the outcome.