Background on Belarus
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A look at Belarus, where voters decide on Sunday whether to abolish presidential term limits and allow the authoritarian president to run for a third term in 2006.
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A Belarus soldier breaks concrete slates with his forehead Sunday in Minsk during a show to mark the beginning of Maslyanitsa, a celebration of saying goodbye to winter.  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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MINSK - Legislative elections in Belarus held at the same time as a referendum on whether President Alexander Lukashenko should be allowed to seek a third term fell âsignificantly shortâ of democratic standards, foreign observers said here Monday.
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Russia and Belarus are to form their positions on the terms of the introduction of the common currency of the Union State by mid-February 2005, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said following the session ...
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Vladimir Putin could become the leader of a land even larger than Russia Â a development that may hinge on talks beginning Thursday in neighboring Belarus.
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Belarusians' decision whether to scrap presidential term limits in a referendum this weekend could determine if this East European nation will remain an isolated Soviet-style throwback or slowly turn toward the West.
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Belarus began implementing a project on preventive measures and AIDS treatment in the republic that is financed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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Belarus warned the United States it was heading toward a Cold War-style confrontation after President George W. Bush signed a law threatening sanctions against the former Soviet republic for its poor rights record.
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Belarus, its leaders shunned by much of the Western world, has snapped back at moves by the European Union and United States to restrict the movements of its senior officials and threatened to respond in kind.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Belarus' leader late Thursday, starting a visit that was closely watched for signs the two ex-Soviet neighbors were advancing toward a merger.
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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko  denied on Friday there was religious intolerance in the  ex-Soviet republic, a week after Israel accused him of  anti-Semitism.
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Ex-Soviet Belarus agreed to join forces with Russia in opposing U.S. plans for a missile shield in Europe on Friday after the Kremlin patched up differences with its strategic ally by promising cheap gas next year.
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As Washington moved to impose economic sanctions on Belarus in the wake of a controversial referendum, both the former Soviet republic and its closest ally, Russia, are sounding a defiant note.
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Belarus expects to have a steady economic development in 2005 on the basis of its high economic growth in 2004, Belarusian Prime Minister Sergey Sidorsky said at a government meeting on Friday.
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After Belarus is named an "outpost of tyranny" by the US, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford speaks to protesters and politicians.
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Pavel Sheremet, head of special projects at Russia's Channel One television station, was in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, to cover Sunday's referendum on the presidential ambitions of Mr Lukashenko - described ...
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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 ...