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Lukashenka makes it harder for workers to leave woodworking plants
Alyaksandr Lukashenka, by a presidential decree issued on December 7, directed that employees of woodworking plants may not quit their job without the employer`s permission before the expiry of their labor contract...
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EurAsEC Anti-crisis Fund approves loan tranche for Belarus
The Board of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC)'s Anti-crisis Fund, at a meeting in Minsk on December 7, approved the disbursement of another $440-million tranche of its $3-billion stabilization loan for Belarus...
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New Life Church wins eviction battle
Minsk authorities have abandoned their plans to take away the prayer house and land plot of a Protestant community called New Life Church...
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Mikalay Dzyadok to be transferred to cell-type prison
A judge decided on December 4 that Mikalay Dzyadok, a young opposition activist convicted in a so-called anarchists' case, should serve the rest of his prison term in a cell-type correctional institution...
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Berlin closes military attache`s office at German embassy in Minsk
German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere has ordered the closure of the military attache`s office at the German embassy in Minsk...
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Russia refuses to hold further oil talks with Belarus
Belarus had wanted to hold another round of the oil talks at the end of last week or the beginning of this week...