The oldest independent newspaper in the eastern Belarusian city of Babruisk says it faces bankruptcy and closure because of government interference. Anatol Sanatsenka, the editor of the weekly "Babruiski Kurier" (Babruisk Courier) said "the authorities have been doing everything to strangle our newspaper."
Belarus plans to expand trade and economic relations with Palestine, Belarus President Alyaksandr Lukashenka said as he met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Palestine to Belarus Montaser Abu Zaid on the occasion of the completion of his diplomatic mission.
Mobile operator MTS Belarus has launched commercial 3G services in all regional centres of the country. The 3G/3G+ network currently covers 39 percent of the country's population. The operator has introduced unlimited web browsing via handsets using the Opera Mini browser and offers an Android handset on installment. MTS Belarus also has 3G Wi-Fi routers for SMEs, which can support broadband in offices with 15-20 employees as well as M2M solutions. MTS Belarus plans to launch its 3G network in 18 agglomerations with more than 50,000 residents by the end of the year. The network will cover all municipal centres across the country in H1 2011
Business leaders have hailed Alyaksandr Lukashenka's presidential edict that is to reduce the number of business activities subject to licensing on January 1, 2011.
After the launch of the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia in July individuals may bring into the three countries goods worth up to €1,500 with a total weight of no more than 50 kilograms free of duty. People traveling to Belarus were previously allowed to bring in goods worth up to €1000 with a total weight of up to 35 kilograms without paying customs duties.
Abolishment of licensing covered, for example, such kinds of activity as:
1. involvement of foreign working force in Belarus. Now only employment abroad should be licensed;
2. retail sales, apart from alcoholic and tobacco products;
3. tourist services;
4. fish and seafood processing and canning;
5. telematic services (fax, telegraph, data transmitting);
6. activity on collecting people's personal data with dating aims. Now a license is necessary only for dating services with foreigners.
A diplomat's car was burned after two firebombs were hurled into the embassy's territory late on August 30. In a statement posted on http://www.belarus.indymedia.org and http://www.belarus.avtonom.org, the group said that the attack was a response to the Russian authorities' crackdown on activists protesting plans to build a new motorway through a forest north of Moscow.
National Bank of the Republic of Belarus intends to withdraw a maximum of extra ruble funds from the banking system. To achieve that, the National Bank appointed the 805th issue of short-term bonds of own emissions on September 2. Emission amount was declared open, the funds are supposed to be withdrawn at 8.81% per annum for a period of 28 days.
Alyaksandr Lukashenka has grown one day younger. It used to be considered that the President was born on August 30, however, the ONT channel congratulated the state leader and his son Mikalai on August 31 this year. A famous Ukrainian astrologer Igor Kolomiyets says that people deliberately changed their birthday to influence their fates since the old days:
The oldest independent newspaper in the eastern Belarusian city of Babruisk says it faces bankruptcy and closure because of government interference. Anatol Sanatsenka, the editor of the weekly "Babruiski Kurier" (Babruisk Courier) said "the authorities have been doing everything to strangle our newspaper."
Belarus plans to expand trade and economic relations with Palestine, Belarus President Alyaksandr Lukashenka said as he met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Palestine to Belarus Montaser Abu Zaid on the occasion of the completion of his diplomatic mission.
Mobile operator MTS Belarus has launched commercial 3G services in all regional centres of the country. The 3G/3G+ network currently covers 39 percent of the country's population. The operator has introduced unlimited web browsing via handsets using the Opera Mini browser and offers an Android handset on installment. MTS Belarus also has 3G Wi-Fi routers for SMEs, which can support broadband in offices with 15-20 employees as well as M2M solutions. MTS Belarus plans to launch its 3G network in 18 agglomerations with more than 50,000 residents by the end of the year. The network will cover all municipal centres across the country in H1 2011
Business leaders have hailed Alyaksandr Lukashenka's presidential edict that is to reduce the number of business activities subject to licensing on January 1, 2011.
After the launch of the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia in July individuals may bring into the three countries goods worth up to €1,500 with a total weight of no more than 50 kilograms free of duty. People traveling to Belarus were previously allowed to bring in goods worth up to €1000 with a total weight of up to 35 kilograms without paying customs duties.
National Bank of the Republic of Belarus intends to withdraw a maximum of extra ruble funds from the banking system. To achieve that, the National Bank appointed the 805th issue of short-term bonds of own emissions on September 2. Emission amount was declared open, the funds are supposed to be withdrawn at 8.81% per annum for a period of 28 days.
Campaign headquarters have been established in Vitsyebsk, Polatsk, Navapolatsk, Orsha, Kokhanava, Sharkawshchyna, Dokshytsy, Myory, Pastavy, Lepel, Hlybokaye, Mahilyow, Babruysk, Asipovichy, Klichaw, Horki, Homyel, Kalinkavichy, Mazyr, Svetlahorsk, Buda-Kashalyova, Rechytsa, Brest, Baranavichy, Kobryn, Hrodna, Lida, Svislach, Masty, Vawkavysk, Slonim and Minsk.
