The dangers from a lack of cooperation were brought home to Latvians in November 1990, when a polymer complex in Navapolatsk, Belarus, accidentally spilled 128 tons of cyanide derivatives into the Daugava River with no warning to downstream users in Latvia.

* Navapolatsk, Belarus

* Navapolatsk, Belarus

An Overseas Private Investment Corporation agreement was signed in June 1992 but has been suspended since 1995 because Belarus did not fulfill its obligations under the agreement.

The Council of Europe has barred Belarus from membership since 1997 for undemocratic voting irregularities in the November 1996 constitutional referendum and parliament by-elections.

* Vitebsk, Belarus, since 1991

Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (), ; Taraškievica orthography: Аляксандар Рыгоравіч Лукашэнка,, ; born 30 or 31 August 1954 ) has been serving as the President of Belarus since 20 July 1994.

* Pinsk, Belarus ( since 1990 )

Since 1921 under the Peace Treaty of Riga the territory belonged to Second Polish Republic, in 1939 it became a part of the USSR and since its fall in 1991-one of 6 provinces of independent Belarus.

* Belarus has officially recognised 9 May since 1946 and considered it non-labor in the past ;

Much of this land had been controlled by the Russian Empire since the Partitions of Poland and its inhabitants were struggling to create their own states ( such as Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltics: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia ).

* Eurasia: The Kontinental Hockey League, based in Russia and also including teams in Belarus, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Slovakia and Ukraine, has operated with a salary cap since its creation in 2008.

Pinsk has been part of Belarus since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

In 1945 town was annexed by the USSR and included as a part of the Byelorussian SSR, since 1991 it is a part of Belarus.

Belarus (« Белару ́ с », earlier « Белару ́ сь ») is a series of four-wheeled tractors produced since 1950 at the Minsk Tractor Plant, MTZ ( Мінскі трактарны завод ; Ми ́ нский тра ́ кторный заво ́ д, МТЗ ) in Minsk, Belarus.

Today Mirnyi is a doubles specialist, but he also enjoyed a good singles career, reaching a career-high of World No. 18 ( August 2003 ) and finishing in the top 50 in the world for seven straight years, as well as representing Belarus in Davis Cup competition since April 1994, where he holds a record of 47 wins and 27 losses in 35 ties played.

In Belarus, common people called hornpipes zalejkas since the 11th century, while the dukes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania called them salmiejs.

* Svetlahorsk, Belarus since 1991

The Truce of Andrusovo (,,, Andrusivs ’ ke Peremyr ” ya, also sometimes known as Treaty of Andrusovo ) was a thirteen and a half year truce, signed in 1667 between Tsardom of Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which were at war since 1654 over the territories of modern-day Ukraine and Belarus.

* Natalia Petkevich, First Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Belarus since 2009

* Mogilev, Belarus ( since 2009 ).

* First World Cup victory since return to independence: 5 October 1996, Tallinn, Belarus ( 1 – 0 );

The Miss Belarus Pageant is a bi-annual national beauty contest that has been held in Belarus since 1998.

In his first match since the World Cup against Belarus, Clichy was criticized for his defense after, following a mix-up with Yann M ' Vila, he failed to prevent Vyacheslav Hleb from assisting on the only goal of the match in the team's 1 – 0 defeat.

Basovišča ( Music Festival of Young Belarus ) — the festival of Belarusian alternative and rock music, which is annually conducted by Belarusian Association of Students since 1990.

Membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as the 1996 treaty on the Union of Russia and Belarus and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State in 1999, has confirmed a close partnership with Russia.

The framework for the Union of Russia and Belarus was set out in the Treaty On the Formation of a Community of Russia and Belarus ( 1996 ), the Treaty on Russia-Belarus Union, the Union Charter ( 1997 ), and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State ( 1999 ).

The IMF granted standby credit in September 1995, but Belarus has fallen off the program and did not receive the second tranche of funding, which had been scheduled for regular intervals throughout 1996.

Until 1996 the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus ; after a referendum held that year the celebration of independence is moved to June 3.

The 1996 Belarus Referendum resulted in the amendment of the constitution that took key powers off the parliament.

* Piotr Eberhardt, Problematyka narodowościowa Białorusi w XX wieku (" Nationality issue of Belarus in the 20th century "), Lublin, 1996, ISBN 83-85854-16-9

A union agreement between Russia and Belarus was formed on April 2, 1996.

* 1992 – Belarus ( until 1996 ), Somalia ( until 1995 )

By June 1996 when Perry traveled to Ukraine to observe the completion of that country's transfer of nuclear warheads to Russia, the only former Soviet missiles still outside of Russia were in Belarus.

* Medal of Francisc Skorina ( Belarus, 19 September 1996 )-for his significant contribution to strengthening the friendly relations between Belarus and the Russian Federation

The airline was officially founded on 5 March 1996 in accordance with a resolution of the Belarusian Government " About the restructuring of air transport of the Republic Belarus ", when the local Aeroflot division was nationalised and renamed.

By comparison, in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney Belarus won 17 medals ( 3 gold, 3 silver, 11 bronze ), and in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, won 15 medals ( 1 gold, 6 silver, and 8 bronze ).

In 1996 Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine joined the CEI as full-fledged members.

His first victory was achieved at the fifth attempt in October 1996, when they defeated Belarus at the Kadriorg stadium in a 1998 World Cup qualifier with a goal from Hohlov-Simson.

Her first major meet for Russia was the European Championships in 1996 where she won gold on balance beam, beating such renowned gymnasts as Gina Gogean and former teammate Svetlana Boguinskaya, who was now competing for Belarus.

As of 1996 lustration laws had not been passed in Belarus, nor in the former Soviet Central Asian Republics ( Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan ) ( Ellis, 1996 ).

He became famed for being one of the few strictly stand-up fighters to successfully overcome grappling-based opponents, exemplified in his victory in the Mr. Powerman Sekai tournament in Minsk, Belarus on January 23, 1996.

The first coins of the Republic of Belarus were issued on December 27, 1996.

Belarus competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time as an independent nation at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.