The Ukrainian Government informs that the damage caused by the floods was estimated at 7 billions Hryvnas or almost one billion Euros. more »
Last year EU leaders agreed to cut CO2 emissions by a fifth by 2020 in a bid to tackle climate change. more »
As Beijing prepares to host the Olympics we republish here some articles that have looked at the developing relations between China and the European Union. more »
A senior investigator of Minsk's Tsentralny district police department, Hanna Sobal, on March 16 suspended a four-month-long probe into the November 12, 2006 vandal attack on the Yama Holocaust memorial. more »
A book of essays by Belarusian philosopher Valyantsin Akudovich has been published by the Minsk-based Ihar Lohvinaw Publishing House. more »
The accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on January 1, 2007 so far has not led to changes in the conditions for visits to the country by Belarusian citizens. more »
Civil society activists on February 7 sent an open letter to Prosecutor General Pyotr Miklashevich, urging him to stop the criminal prosecution of Mieczyslaw Jaskiewicz, a Warsaw-backed activist of the Polish community in Belarus. more »
Alyaksandr Lukashenka has called on Europe to cooperate with Minsk, saying that it anyway had no other alternative, BelaPAN reported. more »
Russia is set to halt imports of Belarusian sugar in the long run, Russian Agriculture Minister Aleksei Gordeyev said in an interview published by the Russian newspaper Vedomosti on Tuesday. more »
Robert Boehme, director of the US State Department's Office of Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus Affairs, met with Belarusian opposition leaders. more »
A senior investigator of Minsk's Tsentralny district police department, Hanna Sobal, on March 16 suspended a four-month-long probe into the November 12, 2006 vandal attack on the Yama Holocaust memorial.
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