The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus () is the executive branch of state power in Belarus, and it is appointed by the President of Belarus.

The head of the Government is the Prime Minister of Belarus, who manages the main agenda of the Government and direct the ministers.

The phone calling code for Belarus is + 375.

They operate under a permanent threat of being closed down for violating various government regulations, such as misstating their corporate name on publications or operating out of an office not registered with the government ( in fact, this is the situation for all private enterprises in Belarus ).

Belarus is switching from an analog to digital broadcast television.

The most important of these is the daily Sovetskaya Belarussia – Belarus segodnya ( Soviet Belarus – Belarus Today ), published by the presidential administration, with a circulation of about 500, 000.

Beltelecom is the only operator licensed to provide commercial VoIP services in Belarus.

Internet access in Belarus is predominantly urban, with 60 percent of users living in the capital Minsk.

The situation is complex, however, because the relatively free Russian media is allowed to transmit television programming, sell newspapers and conduct journalistic activities in Belarus ( though some Russian journalists have been expelled by the Belarusian government ) thus giving some members of the public, typically those in large cities with many Russian residents, access to an alternative point of view in the Russian language ( nearly all Belarusians understand and most of them speak Russian ).

This article is about transport in Belarus.

Rail transport in Belarus is operated by Belarusskaya Chyhunka

The Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Belarus ( Russian: Министерство обороны Республики Беларусь, Belarusian: Мiнiстэрства абароны Рэспублікі Беларусь ) is the government organization that is charged with the duties of raising and maintaining the Armed Forces of Belarus.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at which time Belarus gained its independence, Belarus became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

As a result, Europe is a continent free of the death penalty in practice, all states but Russia, which has entered a moratorium, having ratified the Sixth Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, with the sole exception of Belarus, which is not a member of the Council of Europe.

He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avante-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922.

Richeza of Poland (, ; 12 April 1116 – after 25 December 1156 ), was a Polish princess and member of the House of Piast, and by her three marriages Queen consort of Sweden and Princess of the Principality of Minsk ( now the capital and largest city in Belarus ).

Allison is also a founding member of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in Canada and the Belarus ’ Children of Chernobyl program that brings children affected by the Chernobyl disaster to Canada.

Avi Lewis is the great grandson of Moshe Losz ( Lewis ), an outspoken member of the Jewish Bund who left Svisloch, Poland ( today Belarus ), for Montreal in 1921, with his wife Rose ( née Lazarovitch ) and three children, after being interrogated by the Russians for days and threatened with death or the Gulag for his political activity.

He was a member of the Polish Sejm from the constituency of Nowogródek ( today Navahrudak, Belarus ).

parties-( 78 ) Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, People's Republic of China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong ( associate member ), Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, Libya, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Nauru, Netherlands, NZ, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tonga, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu

The club was a member of the Soviet Voluntary Sports Society of Shakhtyor having connections with other Soviet teams from Karaganda ( Kazakhstan ), Soligorsk ( Belarus ) etc.

A celebrated figure in his native Belarus, he is also a member of the Canadian Mathematical Society and was from 1993 to 2001 a Professor of the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

It now counts 18 member states: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR (), in Dubna, Moscow Oblast ( 120 km north of Moscow ), Russia, is an international research centre for nuclear sciences, with 5500 staff members, 1200 researchers including 1000 Ph. D. s from eighteen member states ( Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mongolia, North Korea, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam ) as well as some eminent scientists from UNESCO, CERN, CLAF, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States.

She visited Iraq in 2002 as member of group of journalists invited to the country by some Belarus businessman who had partners in Iraq.

Between Chernyshevskoye and Lithuanian Kybartai is an important 24-hour border crossing point on the A229 principal road and the railway route connecting Kaliningrad with Moscow through the European Union member Lithuania and Belarus.

There are 8 member states: Turkmenistan, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Tajikistan, Russia, the Azerbaijan Republic, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and the Republic of Armenia.

BSUIR employs four academicians and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 55 professors, and 243 senior lecturers.

In 2004, Mr. Jackson became a member of the International Commission on the Balkans and the Board of Directors of the " We Remember " Foundation, which is working to bring the officials of the Government of Belarus to justice for the disappearances of political opposition leaders and journalists.

He was a member of a number of delegations for relations with Belarus and with the countries of south-east Europe.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, a member of the delegation for relations with Belarus, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Iran.

Aloyzas Sakalas is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus.

He is also member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Belarus.

He was a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, a member of the Delegation to the European Union-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia, and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Belarus.

As a result the current border between the countries of Belarus, Ukraine and Poland is an approximation of the Curzon Line.

* Moskovskaya Line, Minsk, Belarus

* Avtozavodskaya Line, Minsk, Belarus

Today, the remains of the Stalin Line fortifications are located in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine ( plus possibly the eastern parts of Moldova ).

These include: Albania, Afghanistan Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Holy See ( Vatican City ), Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Order of Malta, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

Belarus has 4 GSM operators ( TM velcom, MTS, life and Diallog ), the NMT-450 and CDMA-2000 operator.

The most active Internet users in Belarus belong to the 17 – 22 age group ( 38 percent ), followed by users in the 23 – 29 age group.

In the 2011 Freedom House Freedom of the Press report, Belarus scored 92 on a scale from 10 ( most free ) to 99 ( least free ), because the Lukashenko regime systematically curtails press freedom.

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 ).

Although most economies today are market economies or mixed economies ( which are partially planned ), fully planned economies exist in the remaining few countries of Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, and Myanmar.

The River Daugava ( in Latvian ) or Western Dvina (;,, Дзвiна, Dzvina ; ), not to be confused with Northern Dvina, is a river rising in the Valdai Hills, Russia, flowing through Russia, Belarus, and Latvia, draining into the Gulf of Riga in Latvia, an arm of the Baltic Sea.

Piłsudski had entertained far-reaching anti-Russian cooperative designs for Eastern Europe, and in 1919 the Polish forces pushed eastward into Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine ( previously a theater of the Polish – Ukrainian War ), taking advantage of the Russian preoccupation with the civil war.

Various types of hammered dulcimers are traditionally played in India, Iran, Southwest Asia, China, and parts of Southeast Asia, Central Europe ( Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland ( particularly Appenzell ), Austria and Bavaria ), the Balkans, Eastern Europe ( Ukraine and Belarus ) and Scandinavia.

He taught at the Vitebsk Practical Art School in the USSR ( now part of Belarus ) ( 1919 – 1922 ), the Leningrad Academy of Arts ( 1922 – 1927 ), the Kiev State Art Institute ( 1927 – 1929 ), and the House of the Arts in Leningrad ( 1930 ).