Politics

The decision was adopted by written procedure.

The amended laws will make it easier to obtain a refugee status and harder to get Belarus citizenship.

The European Union will suspend Belarus sanction for four months, Reuters reports quoting diplomatic sources.

Belarus-EU cooperation and dialogue was discussed at the meeting.

Minsk and Moscow will discuss the issue in the framework of military and technical cooperation of the two states.

Opposition activist Viachaslau Siuchyk gets fined in Minsk. The court did not even bother to summon him to the hearing.

Former political prisoner Ales Mikhalevich heads to Prague to give up his political refugee status.

The picket organizer had to obtain permission to stage a rally even during the campaigning period, the court insists.

Opposition politician Anatol Lyabedzka gets the maximum fine for staging an unauthorized event repeated within one year.