Contents tagged with Belarus
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Lukashenko: doctors leaving Belarus will not be allowed back
Belarusian doctors who have left for work abroad will no longer be able to come back, said the acting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting on COVID-19 pandemic, BelTA news agency reports.
"They are specifically asking our doctors to come to Poland to help the population and the government in the fight against the COVID. I want to warn you that we don't have any extra doctors. We need to treat our people ourselves. But, following our principle, we will not keep anyone. However, …
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Lukashenko asks Putin to sell him an oil field in Russia
During a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the incumbent president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko expressed interest in buying an oil field in the Russian Federation.
According to Lukashenko's press service, Putin supported this idea, but suggested discussing the details of the deal during next conversations.
In addition to oil, the parties talked about the COVID-19 pandemic, including setting up the production line for the Russian vaccine in Belarus. Lukashenko and …
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EU countries agree to impose sanctions against Lukashenko
Permanent representatives of the EU member states approved additional sanctions against the Belarusian authorities, including President Alexander Lukashenko, reported TASS citing a source in the delegation of one of the European countries in the Council of the EU.
According to the diplomat, this decision will be approved by the Council of the EU in the coming days and published in the Official Journal of the European Union, after which it will come into force.
In October, EU foreign ministers …
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Belarus bans entry to Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Polish citizens
Minsk will not allow citizens of Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland to enter Belarus, said the Ambassador of Ukraine to Belarus Igor Kizim on the air of Hromadske Radio.
According to him, the Belarusian border guards are taking appropriate measures.
"All the same, they continue to consider Ukraine a threat. All this is groundless, but someone needs it to justify tough actions against the protesters," Kizim said.
Earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Ukraine should keep trade …
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Russian Defense Minister: our priority is to ensure security of Belarus
The Russian Defense Ministry considers the security of the Federal State of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus its priority, stated the Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu, Interfax reports.
Speaking at the joint military panel of Russia and Belarus, the Russian Defense Minister noted that recently the U.S. tried to change the power in the Republic of Belarus. According to Shoygu, American satellites and color revolution technologies were used. One of the goals of such …
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Minsk: 13,000 Belarusians left for Poland and Ukraine
In the past two months, 13,000 people have left Belarus for Poland and Ukraine, the Belarusian Interior Ministry said. "Poland accounts for the largest number - 10,000 people. Latvia and Lithuania - much less - no more than 500 people have left for these two countries," said the head of the Department of Citizenship and Migration of the Belarusian Interior Ministry Alexey Begun. He also said that during the same period about 3,000 people left for Ukraine.
Begun did not agree that the mass …
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Tikhanovskaya promises economic support for those who will join general strike in Belarus
Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya named guarantees for those who will support the general strike which will be held if the Belarusian authorities do not comply with the "people's ultimatum".
"We have announced the People's Ultimatum - and if its demands are not met, on October 26 I will support every Belarusian who will join the general strike. Under “each” I mean that the rights of striking workers will be shared with students, entrepreneurs, neighbors, drivers, scientists, …
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Head of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service arrives in Belarus
Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin met with Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk. Lukashenko thanked Naryshkin for the fact that Moscow provides information to Minsk on a regular basis.
"Thank you for the information that you regularly provide to our special services including me. We take it very seriously, and in this regard, we have a lot of joint work," TASS quoted Lukashenko as saying.
Lukashenko touched on the topic of the Union State in his conversation with …
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Three Belarusian opposition leaders nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Three leaders of the Belarusian opposition - Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Maria Kolesnikova and Veranika Tsepkalo – have been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, said Geir Toskedal, a MP of the Norwegian Christian Democratic Party, in an interview with the newspaper Vårt Land.
According to him, he nominated Tikhanovskaya, Kolesnikova and Tsepkalo "for their struggle for fair elections and for inspiring the peaceful opposition against the illegitimate regime in Belarus."
"Opposition …
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280 people detained in Belarus during Sunday protests
The Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed the detention of 280 people during the protests on Sunday, October 18.
Among those, 215 were detained in Minsk, Belta reports.
Of those detained, 237 remain in custody pending court reviews of administrative offence cases opened against them.
"Partisan March" - another protest with a demand to review the results of the presidential elections in Belarus and release political prisoners - was held in Minsk on October 18. Tens of thousands of …