FM Makey on integration with Russia: I do not see any danger for Belarus

Two opposition MPs, Alena Anisim and Hanna Kanapatskaya, have not been registered as parliamentary candidates in the upcoming elections.

Vladimir Putin has asked the State Duma to withdraw from the Additional Protocols of the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) signed by the Soviet Union.

Activist Zmitser Paliyenka whose criminal case was heard at the Minsk City Court on 17 October attempted to slash his wrists just before the trial.

The Governing Council of Border Troops of CIS countries gave its highest award to Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and awarded him the title of Honorary Border Guard of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

On October 17, the Russian government discussed a draft bill on recognizing Ukrainian- and Belarusian-born citizenship seekers native Russian speakers without being interviewed, Interfax Ukraine reports.

On October 16, Ushachy district court of Vitsebsk voblast announced the sentence for a resident of Minsk and two sisters from Navapolatsk –defendants in a high-profile pedophilia case. All three of them received 20 years in prison.

The appeal authors are asking to add the hours of studying the Belarusian Latin alphabet – “an integral part of the Belarusian language” — to the studies of the Belarusian language.

Russia should not treat Belarusians as enemies who have faced away from Russia, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka said at Thursday’s meeting with Andrey Nikitin, governor of Russia’s Novgorod region.