Elections in Belarus 2015

The Belarusian Finance Ministry has refuted mass media reports about Russia’s granting Belarus a respite on payments for loans till 2016.

Dzieciuki, Vopli Vidopliasova and other bands will perform on Friday evening in the center of the Polish capital.

About 500 fans came to the Belarusian town of Barysau to cheer for the Austrian football club Rapid Vienna (SK Rapid Wien). While the visiting team was playing against FC Dinamo Minsk, their supporters got to know how the Belarusian riot police do its job.

Our country has become the champion of the CIS … in devaluation. According to BelaPAN, since the beginning of the year, the Belarusian ruble has lost more value than any other post-Soviet currency.

The independent TV channel repeatedly invited all the presidential candidates to the studio, but only one of them, Tatsiana Karatkevich, has accepted our invitation.

This September Kolya Lukashenka has skipped as many classes as during the previous semester.

Belsat TV wonders how life is treating Lukashenka’s former rivals.

Belarus’ cooperation prospects with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), including a possible new cooperation program, were discussed at a meeting between president Alyaksandr Lukashenka and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Saturday.

A program meant to guide the introduction of structural reforms in Belarus’ real economy sector in 2016-2020 will be unveiled in mid-October, Taras Nadolny, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus during the 9th Russian National Banking Forum in Minsk on September, 25.

The presidential candidate is even going to prove that this is not true.

The Belteleradio company Chairman Henadz Davydzka has violated the electoral law, but has not been held responsible for it.

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry calls the policy of sanctions ‘counterproductive’ and ‘wrong’.

Zmitser Artsyomau, a person with sight disability, who was brutally detained by the police in Minsk, is in hospital now.

Mikalai Statkevich, a former political prisoner and presidential candidate-2010, held a meeting with voters in Minsk on Wednesday. About a thousand people turned up; even incumbent president Lukashenka was invited, but, as one might expect, failed to appear. It is him whom Statkevich’s pointed questions are addressed to.

Now the first and still the only president is campaigning for “the future of an independent Belarus”. What did he promise us in the previous elections?