The information center of the central election commission of the Republic of Belarus will operate in the Palace of the Republic on March 19 from 10h00 to 24h00 and on March 20 from 9h00 to 12h00. As BelTA has been told in the foreign ministry, the center will provide prompt data on the course of the presidential elections in Belarus.

The presidential election campaign in Belarus is being heavily monitored by both home and foreign observers. The number of international observers is expected to race above 1,000, chairman of the central election commission Lidiya Ermoshina told reporters on March 9. “As of today 704 international observers have been granted accreditation in Belarus. There are over 814 nominees for the status of an observer. We expect some 435 CIS observers and approximately the same number of OSCE ODIHR...

The choice of the Belarusian people will be guided by the desire to strengthen the state and rise efficiently of the cooperation between Belarus and Russia, prime minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov has declared today during a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Sergei Sidorskiy in Minsk. “We have done everything possible to speed up the integration process between the countries,” the head of the Russian government said. He also pointed that the issues on the Union...

When providing additional socio-economic guarantees for millions of law-abiding women in the Year of Mother the president did not leave behind convinced mothers. The head of state initiated the procedure of pardoning pregnant women and women having children under 18. Interior minister Vladimir Naumov is charged with the responsibility of submitting specific appeals for pardon for the president’s consideration.

According to a monitoring, 80 per cent of the potential electorate is in favor of the incumbent president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, chairman of the commission for control over sociologic research under the National Academy of Sciences Igor Kotlyarov informed during a round-table discussion in Minsk. “There are 80 per cent of those who support two official languages in the country and integration with Russia,” he specified. “A distinguishing feature of the program of Alexander...

On March 6 president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko gave an interview to the program “Real Politics” with Gleb Pavlovskiy” (NTV channel). Well-known political scientist Gleb Pavlovskiy is an adviser to the chief of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, president of the Effective Policy Foundation. The interview focused on the peculiar features of the Belarusian model of government, strong social policy, socio-economic development of the country in the next five...

Well-known Russian political scientist, adviser to the chief of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation Gleb Pavlovskiy has stated today that the Belarusian model of development is of interest to Russia “The Belarusian model is interesting as a unique experience of progress from the ruined economy of the early 1990s and the then fears and chaos to the society which is probably more consolidated than the Russian society”, Gleb Pavlovskiy has told Belarusian reporters....

The people's congress is an open conversation with the nation, direct and effective form of democracy allowing people to participate in the state administration, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko said while opening the 3rd All-Belarus People's Congress on March 2. Addressing the congress, the head of state noted, for the third time the people has gathered for a national assembly. The president reminded, the first congress took place at a time of radical measures necessary to stop the...

The 3rd All-Belarus People's Congress has opened in Minsk. Head of state Alexander Lukashenko takes part in the congress. The congress will sum up results of implementing the 2001-2005 national social and economic development programme, talk over a draft social and economic development programme for the next five years as well as other important issues related to the state and public life. The congress gathered representatives of all strata of the Belarusian society: industry workers and...

Secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization /CSTO/ Nikolai Bordiuzha values positively the readiness of the Belarusian side for its forthcoming presidency in the CSTO. The statement to this effect was made today by Nikolai Bordiuzha at his meeting with foreign minister of Belarus Sergei Martynov. As BelTA was informed in the foreign political department of Belarus, the sides discussed organizational aspects and issues to be high on the agenda of the forthcoming Minsk...