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.

Belarus is a member of the Trans-European Line ( TEL ), Trans-Asia-Europe Fibre-Optic Line ( TAE ) and has access to the Trans-Siberia Line ( TSL ); three fibre-optic segments provide connectivity to Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine ; worldwide service is available to Belarus through this infrastructure ; additional analogue lines to Russia ; Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Intersputnik earth stations

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.

Because he missed his fiancée, Bella, who was still in Vitebsk —" He thought about her day and night ", writes Baal-Teshuva — and was afraid of losing her, Chagall decided to accept an invitation from a noted art dealer in Berlin to exhibit his work, his intention being to continue on to Belarus, marry Bella, and then return with her to Paris.

Nevertheless, Lukashenko kept trying ; in February 1995, Belarus signed the Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation with Russia, making many concessions to Russia, such as allowing the stationing of Russian troops in Belarus, in hopes that Russia would return the favor by charging Belarus lower prices for fuels.

Owen made his debut for the England national B-team in a friendly against Belarus on 25 May 2006, as part of his return to match fitness ahead of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

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

The U. S., said President Bush, " will work with our allies and partners to assist those seeking to return Belarus to its rightful place among the Euro-Atlantic community of democracies.

Some aircraft in Belarus and Ukraine ( such as Tu-160s ) were returned to Russia, sometimes in return for debt reductions, as well as a long range aviation division based at Dolon in Kazakhstan.

In 1956, influenced by Soviet propaganda, his father decided to return to Belarus ( then the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the USSR ), taking the whole family.

Hibs lost the first match in Belarus 1-3 but won the return leg 3-1 against all expectations.

During a trip to Ukraine to extend Russia's lease of the Crimean port Sevastopol in return for discounted natural gas supplies, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was asked about whether Belarus could expect a similar deal and responded, " Real partnership is one thing and a declaration of intentions is another ; reaching agreement on working seriously, meeting each other halfway, helping each other is one thing and making decisions about granting permanent residence to people who have lost their job is another.

Several poets and authors went into exile after the Nazi occupation of Belarus, not to return until the 1960s.

He was able to recover in time to lead Belarus in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, but was relegated as a reserve defender upon his return to the Avalanche, playing in a career low 14 games.

The military forces of Belarus are exclusively armed with Soviet-era equipment inherited from the Soviet Union.

And, during his rule, Lukashenko began to re-instate Soviet-era functions and reintroduced the symbols from Soviet Belarus.

Belarus did not have an anthem before one was adopted in the Soviet-era.

" Kuzio said that the motives of Russia and Belarus in re-adopting Soviet-era symbols are part of restoring that nostalgia.

Belarus used the traditional Pahonia as its coat of arms from 1991 to 1995 when it was replaced by a new emblem closely resembling the Soviet-era design.

The introduction of free trade between Russia and Belarus in mid-1995 led to a spectacular growth in bilateral trade, which was only temporarily reversed in the wake of the financial crisis of 1998.

The common cultural bond of Eastern Orthodox Christianity and written Church Slavonic ( a literary and liturgical Slavic language developed by 8th century missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius ) fostered the emergence of a new geopolitical entity, Kievan Rus ' — a loose-knit network of principalities, established along preexisting trade routes, with major centers in Novgorod ( currently Russia ), Polatsk ( in Belarus ) and Kiev ( currently in Ukraine ) — which claimed a sometimes precarious preeminence among them.

Since the border with Belarus is also the eastern border of the European Union, as well as the Schengen Area the city is a center for trade in mainly from the east.

It is also a main gateway of trade with Belarus due to its proximity to the border and its current and longstanding relationship with Hrodno, Belarus.

A trade union campaign was carried out to raise international awareness and put pressure on the Belarus government.

* Belarus Free Trade Union ( SPB )-a trade union in Belarus.

She specialized in investigative journalism and wrote about social issues, including articles about religious sects and gypsy communities in Belarus, but also she published several articles about illegal arms trade between Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

At that time, new stone houses were built and trade fairs were held semiannually, frequented by 4 to 5 thousand visitors from Belarus, Russia and abroad.

The route allowed traders along the route to establish a direct prosperous trade with Byzantium, and prompted some of them to settle in the territories of present-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

This team included such players as Kevin Kerr, who would later break the all time minor league hockey scoring record and coach the Generals, Robin Bouchard, who was traded early the next season in a lopsided trade that did not favor the Generals, Andrei Mezin, the goalie who would go on to play for his native Belarus in the olympics and upset Sweden, and female goaltender, Erin Whitten.

International Union of Exhibitions and Fairs ( IUEF ) is an association of the leading exhibition centres and trade show related companies from Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, United Kingdom.

Belarus and Uzbekistan initially refrained from signing on to the agreement ; Belarus because of a trade dispute with Russia, and Uzbekistan due to general concerns.

He is a member of the Union of Writers of Belarus, the commission of support to youth, the commission of state prizes, a judge of the competition energetica, a judge of the Republican Youth Singing competition, a representative of the commission for prizes for trade unions.

He is a laureate the state prize of the Republic of Belarus ( 1996 ), the prize of trade unions of the Belarusian SSR ( 1991 ).

From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, when the ideas of humanism, the Renaissance, and the Reformation were alive in Western Europe, these ideas were debated in Belarus as well because of trade relations there and because of the enrollment of noblemen's and burghers ' sons in Western universities.