BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

Febraury, 2007

28.02.2007 Six More Belarusian Officials Sanctioned by United States
28.02.2007 Russia to reply to Belarus loan request in 1.5 months - finance min. -1
28.02.2007 Website Promotes Belarusian President As Candidate For Russian President
28.02.2007 EU to uphold Uzbekistan and Belarus sanctions
28.02.2007 Lukashenko's Belarus scrambling for foreign money (News Feature)
28.02.2007 Yum! Food From Belarus
28.02.2007 Iranian, Belarus banks sign MoU on expansion of interactions
28.02.2007 Belarus: Reports that US citizens deported for religious activity "a misunderstanding"
28.02.2007 India to host session of Belarus-India inter-Govt. commission
28.02.2007 Iran, Belarus banks discuss cooperation
28.02.2007 Belarus adopts 15 key parameters of economic security
28.02.2007 Belarus to set up state - owned oil company by July 1
28.02.2007 Rightist Group Promote Belarus Dictator Lukashenko as Russian Presidential Candidate
28.02.2007 Belarus,Russia to take steps towards joint air defence
28.02.2007 Belarus: Lukashenka Promoted As Russian Presidential Candidate
28.02.2007 US announces sanctions against several Belarus leaders
28.02.2007 Minsk-Baku-Minsk flight opened
28.02.2007 U.S. Treasury Widened the Travel Ban List for Belarus' Bureaucrats
28.02.2007 U.S. Sanctions Target Six More Belarusian Officials
28.02.2007 Six Top Belarus Officials Face U.S. Government Sanctions
28.02.2007 United States imposes sanctions on six top Belarusian officials
28.02.2007 US Imposes Sanctions on More Top Belarusian Officials
27.02.2007 Belarus is For Sale (Investors Be Cautious!)
27.02.2007 More sanctions for Belarus officials
27.02.2007 Treasury Bars 6 Belarusian Officials For Anti-Democracy Activity
27.02.2007 International Campaign Launched To Free Belarusian Political Prisoner
27.02.2007 Belarus to set up state oil company by July 1
27.02.2007 Produce markets of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus livened up during the Lent
27.02.2007 Belarus' Belarusneft to Make Assessments in Orinoco
27.02.2007 Beltelecom calms fears over possible price rises
27.02.2007 Belarus, Russia unlikely to sign economic,trade pact before March 1
27.02.2007 Alexander Lukashenko Hunts Credit Line
27.02.2007 Tha father of all hangovers
27.02.2007 Belarus may draw $1.2 billion in untied loans from China in 2007
27.02.2007 Golden Lab wants to set up brown coal venture with Belarus
26.02.2007 Minister: Belarus Nuclear Plant to Be Environment Friendly
26.02.2007 Sovereign Lukashenko
26.02.2007 What Has Happened To Detained Belarusian Oppositionist?
26.02.2007 Lithuania exploring 'exit strategy' for Belarus leader
26.02.2007 Belarus official: Austrian bank will invest 1.3 billion dollars
25.02.2007 Gay Groups Unite in Belarus
25.02.2007 Belarus' Diamond Imports Up 22% In 2006
24.02.2007 Zero customs duty on some goods imported to belarus
23.02.2007 Belarusian President Moves To Ease Border Formalities For Chornobyl Personnel
23.02.2007 Belarus Seeks $1.5 Billion Loan From Russia
22.02.2007 IFF: Belarus actress returns with a hat trick
22.02.2007 RF government ready to consider stabilization credit to Belarus
22.02.2007 Russia may grant stabilization loan to Belarus - Gref
22.02.2007 Belarusian Ministry Warns Independent Monthly
22.02.2007 Belarus: new greenhouse complex
22.02.2007 Belarus asks for $1.5 bln stabilization loan from Russia
22.02.2007 Belarus asks Russia for $1.5Bln stabilization loan
22.02.2007 Tighter import laws set to cause Belarus perfume price hike
22.02.2007 Belarus Inhales Russian Cigarettes
21.02.2007 Adamkus offers Belarus oil transit possibilities, while Russia continues its 'bypass frenzy'
21.02.2007 Belarus to sell more than 100 tractors to Iran
21.02.2007 Ukraine to sign 5 agreements with Belarus
21.02.2007 Belarus: vegetable juice extraction factory to be built in Minsk
21.02.2007 Belarusian Oppositionist Receives Two Years On Probation
21.02.2007 Belarusians Protest Construction Of Church Commemorating Russian General
21.02.2007 Credit Suisse lend Belarussian hardware plant EUR 5 mln
21.02.2007 Alexander Lukashenko allies himself with Boris Yeltsin
21.02.2007 Belarusian president to visit Sudan soon
20.02.2007 Belarus' BeST user base soars 60% to 100,000 since Jan
20.02.2007 Trial Of Accused Killer Cop Begins In Belarus
20.02.2007 Belarus Calls for Opening S. Embassy
20.02.2007 Sudanese Parliamentary Speaker Visits Belarus
20.02.2007 Belarus bans import of poultry from Russia's region of Moscow
20.02.2007 Belarus set to boost relations with Sudan - Lukashenko
20.02.2007 Belarus: Why Can't The Opposition Just Get Along?
20.02.2007 Belarus: Volkswagen to cooperate with Belarusian Railways to deliver its component parts to Russia
19.02.2007 Belarusian minister advocates universal fixed fees for telecom services
19.02.2007 Belarus Declares Flu Epidemic In Two Provinces
19.02.2007 Internet cafes to keep log of sites accessed by patrons
19.02.2007 Sudanese lawmakers in Belarus to boost bilateral ties
18.02.2007 EU Ready to Engage in Conditional Dialog with Belarus
17.02.2007 Exclusive: Koldun speaks to esctoday.com
16.02.2007 Belarusian Ministry Denies Registration To Leftist Alliance
16.02.2007 10 Americans Ordered to Leave Belarus
16.02.2007 Belarus expels US volunteers for teaching English
16.02.2007 Belarus Accelerates Plans To Build Nuclear Plant
16.02.2007 Cybercafes owners forced to turn in customers
16.02.2007 Belarus to accelerate plans for new nuclear reactor
16.02.2007 Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus to Establish Alternative to Russian Oil Supplies
16.02.2007 Belarus to accelerate plans for new nuclear reactor
16.02.2007 Czech Foreign Ministry to support projects in Cuba, Belarus
16.02.2007 Belarus raises transit fees for Russian oil
16.02.2007 Rise in Transneft expenses after Belarus transit fee hike minimal
16.02.2007 Opposition Close to Split in Belarus
16.02.2007 Belarus Hikes Oil Transit Fees
15.02.2007 Belarus Raises Transit Fees on Russian Oil Bound for Europe
15.02.2007 Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania OK oil plan
15.02.2007 Belarus tightens internet controls
15.02.2007 Belarus Imposes Tougher Restrictions On Internet Use
15.02.2007 Belarus stirring up trouble with Russia again...
15.02.2007 Belarus says it has hiked transit fees on Russian oil by more than 30 percent
15.02.2007 Russian oil transit tariff via Belarus raised by one-third
15.02.2007 Belarus: new apple varieties
15.02.2007 Milinkevich Says No To Opposition Congress
15.02.2007 Belarus raises transit fees on Russian crude by one third
15.02.2007 Belarus Police Detain And Fine US Volunteers For Teaching English
15.02.2007 US aid workers detained by Belarus police for teaching English
15.02.2007 Belarus hikes transit rates for Russian oil by 30 per cent
15.02.2007 Belarus Hikes Russian Oil Transit Tariffs by 30%
15.02.2007 Lithuania Steps In between Belarus and EU
15.02.2007 Belarus govt approves tougher control over Internet use
15.02.2007 Belarus hikes tariffs for Russian oil transportation
14.02.2007 Sharapova named a U.N. goodwill ambassador
14.02.2007 Demonstrators Detained in Belarus Rally
14.02.2007 Belarusian President Courts European Ambassadors Wit Cooperation Offers
14.02.2007 Belarus: Young People Send Their Love To Europe
14.02.2007 Russian MP: "We cannot afford to continue depending on Belarus in oil transit"
14.02.2007 Transneft ready to construct oil pipeline bypassing Belarus by mid-2008
14.02.2007 Russia Vehicle Law Jams Belarusian Border Roads For Kilometres
14.02.2007 Lithuania offers oil help
14.02.2007 Russia seeks new oil export routes
14.02.2007 Lithuania: Hatching plan to outrun Russia energy blockade
14.02.2007 Washington biased in its assessment of religious freedom in Belarus - Byelorussian Foreign Ministry
14.02.2007 Zimbabwe seeks to strengthen ties with Belarus
13.02.2007 Transneft Head Says New Oil Pipeline Could Bypass Belarus
13.02.2007 Russia sees Belarus oil bypass by mid-2008
13.02.2007 Russia may build oil pipeline bypassing Belarus in 18 months
12.02.2007 Belarusian KGB continues hunt of young opposition activists
12.02.2007 Belarus sentences 9 to death in 2006, up from 2, court chairman says
12.02.2007 Belarusian Opposition Party Mulls National-Unity Option For Upcoming Rally
12.02.2007 Belarusian Law Enforcers Detain 26 Activists Of Banned Student Union
12.02.2007 Belarussian economy grows 9.7% in Jan (Part 2)
12.02.2007 Belarussian money supply grows 5.7% in Jan
12.02.2007 Belarus crackdown on opposition continues, more youth arrests
12.02.2007 Iran, Belarus Boost Cooperation
12.02.2007 Belarus plans to purchase Ukrainian grain
11.02.2007 Lukashenko confirms Belarus' stable course to enlarge ties with Iran
11.02.2007 Belarus companies urged to look east
10.02.2007 Belarus,Iran study prospects of opening a bank in Belarus with Iranian capital
10.02.2007 Belarus aims to raise one billion USD in foreign loans in 2007
10.02.2007 Beltransgaz transports record-breaking volume of natural gas in 2006
10.02.2007 Crossfire War - Iran Increases Nuclear Cooperation With Belarus
10.02.2007 More Russians Shun Union with Belarus
09.02.2007 European Parliament Head Calls On Belarusian President To Release Political Prisoners
09.02.2007 Belarus Wants Truce In Transportation War With Moscow
09.02.2007 The tragedy of Islam in Belarus
09.02.2007 Outside View: The lost leader of Belarus
09.02.2007 Iran ready to cooperate in Belarussian nuclear plant: Ambassador
09.02.2007 Belarus: Lukashenko's lonely life
08.02.2007 Belarus opposition youth leader released from KGB jail
08.02.2007 US urges EU not to 'go soft' on Belarus
08.02.2007 Belarus, Iran to work on oil exploration
08.02.2007 Belarus: Lukashenka -- Father Of The Nation, Or Loudmouthed Autocrat?
08.02.2007 Belarus opposition youth leader defiant after KGB jail release
08.02.2007 Belarusian economy avoids criminalization - president
08.02.2007 Belarus ready to discuss with RF settlement of transport conflict
08.02.2007 Monthly wage in Belarus to go up to $340 despite gas price hikes
08.02.2007 EP President meets Belarus opposition leader
08.02.2007 Lukashenko takes pro-Western turn for Belarus, casts Russia aside completely
08.02.2007 Belarus: Press freedom squeezed
08.02.2007 Russia-Belarus Union State in danger - Duma speaker
08.02.2007 Iran to Help Lukashenko Construct First Nuclear Plant
08.02.2007 The Batka Stoops to Blackmail
08.02.2007 Belarus to get $50 mln by raising tariffs on Russian oil transit
08.02.2007 Alexander Lukashenko Heads West
08.02.2007 Open Letter of Aleksandr Milinkevich to Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarus 2007
08.02.2007 Belarus Mulls Privatization Programs
08.02.2007 Two Belarus opposition activists released
07.02.2007 Lukashenka Wants Belarus To Go Its Own Way
07.02.2007 Belarus to lift restrictions on Russia's beer imports from Mar.1
07.02.2007 Belarus violates accords on transit of Russia goods
07.02.2007 Russia increased energy prices to make Belarusian goods uncompetitive -official
07.02.2007 Belarusian President Rejects Russia's 'Imperial' Approach And European Calls For Democratization
07.02.2007 Belarus' Authoritarian Leader Says West Should Not Support Renegade Opposition
07.02.2007 Belarus Efforts To Promote Innovation And Creativity Welcomed By WIPO
07.02.2007 Ukrainian, Belarusian vice-premiers discuss energy, transport and agricultural cooperation
07.02.2007 Lukashenko demands from Putin to pay compensation
07.02.2007 Belarus to Annually Lose $5 Billion from Higher Prices for Gas, Oil
07.02.2007 Klyuyev talked to Byelorussians about gas
07.02.2007 Belarus: Railways set to increase freight traffic to Asia, Pacific region in 2007
07.02.2007 Belarus Urges Russia to Drop Mutual Claims
07.02.2007 Gref Rejects Minsk's Transit-Fee Warning
06.02.2007 Lukashenko attacks "corrupt" Belarus opposition
06.02.2007 Chronology-Belarus's Lukashenko 12 years in power
06.02.2007 On a Collision Course: Russia, Belarus
06.02.2007 Belarus wants Russia's money and its friendship
06.02.2007 No word from Belarus on hike in oil transit tariffs - Russian minister
06.02.2007 Belarus: A New Dialogue To Preserve The Independent State?
06.02.2007 Official addresses oil transit hike plan
06.02.2007 Belarus Announces Plans for First Nuclear Reactor
06.02.2007 Report: Belarus needs Russian agreement to raise oil transit rate, economy minister says
06.02.2007 No plans to retaliate Belarus's rise in oil transit tariff - Gref
06.02.2007 Russia's consent needed for Belarus to raise oil transit rate
06.02.2007 Belarus To Increase Transit Tariffs For Russian Oil
06.02.2007 Belarus to increase Russian transit fees
06.02.2007 Belarus may raise duty on oil transit only within agreement - Gref
06.02.2007 New Russian Oil Pipeline to Bypass Belarus
06.02.2007 Oil Transit Through Belarus Becomes More Expensive by Third
06.02.2007 Belarusian Oppositionists Arrested in Their Homes
05.02.2007 Belarus woos foreign money after Russia spat
05.02.2007 Belarus says it will increase transit fees for Russian oil
05.02.2007 Transneft to build pipeline bypassing Belarus
05.02.2007 Belarus to raise oil transit tariffs
05.02.2007 Belarus to allow more adoptions by foreigners
05.02.2007 Belarus KGB arrests 30 opposition activists meeting in apartment
05.02.2007 Belarus to start building its first nuclear power plant in 2008
05.02.2007 Belarus hits Russia with 35% hike in oil transit fees
05.02.2007 Belarus raising oil transit tariff not to affect Europe -Transneft
05.02.2007 Belarus Raises Oil Transit Tariffs, Russia Threatens Sanctions
05.02.2007 Belarus to drastically raise oil transit tariffs Feb 15
05.02.2007 Opposition Youth Activists Detained In Belarus
05.02.2007 Belarus: Transmashholding will Be shipping 10 metro cars to Belarus in 2007
05.02.2007 Iran to play Belarus in friendly
05.02.2007 Belarus youth group members detained
05.02.2007 Belarusian KGB actively recruiting students in Poland
05.02.2007 Some 30 opposition activists arrested in Belarus
03.02.2007 Minsk, Belarus: Things to do and See
03.02.2007 Exclusive: Koldun to sing in Spanish tonight
02.02.2007 Lukashenko wants to make Belarus space nation
02.02.2007 Brussels mistrusts Belarus' pro-EU talk
02.02.2007 Belarus To Charge Millions For Land Under Pipelines
02.02.2007 Belarus looks to import oil via Lithuanian port - report
02.02.2007 Belarus expects to get $5 mln a year from pipeline land rent
02.02.2007 Belarus wants Russia to pay $5 million a year in pipeline land rent
02.02.2007 Lukashenko offered olive branch
02.02.2007 Opposition Backs Off Lukashenko
01.02.2007 Russia Spared Lukashenko Before Re-Elections
01.02.2007 Russia ready to discuss with Minsk any Union State options
01.02.2007 Russia to continue work on Union State with Belarus - Putin
01.02.2007 Belarus - Annual report 2007
01.02.2007 Azerbaijan-Belarus Trade Economic Relations Expanding
01.02.2007 Azerbaijan, Belarus: Interior Ministres Cooperate
01.02.2007 Belarus: Threat to Close Lone Human Rights Group
01.02.2007 Belarus wants to boost strategic partnership with Vietnam
01.02.2007 Russians Still Keen on Union with Belarus