* 1954 – Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian politician, 1st President of Belarus

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, an authoritarian leader, has shown much interest in aligning his country with Russia, and no interest in deepening ties with the ever-expanding NATO or implementing Western-backed neoliberal economic reforms.

According to the newspaper Soviet Byelorussia, President Lukashenko decided on the anthem on June 12, 2002 and chose to have its first performance on July 3, Belarusian independence day, the anniversary of the date in 1944 when the Wehrmacht was driven away from Minsk by the Red Army.

" The report also mentioned President Lukashenko's ban of the symbols that were used since Belarus's independence in 1991, such as the Pahonia arms and the white, red, white flag, which Lukashenko claims are associated with fascism ( due to the fact that the pro-Nazi Belarusian Central Rada in World War II used these symbols ).

In 2003, Dr. Taras Kuzio wrote in Radio Free Europe that President Lukashenko " is the quintessential Soviet Belarusian patriot who presides over a regime steeped in Soviet nostalgia.

Ivonka Survilla or Surviłła (, born April 11, 1936 in Stoŭbcy, then part of Second Polish Republic ( West Belarus ), now in Minsk Voblast of Belarus, as Ivonka Shymaniets ;, ) is the current President of the Belarusian National Republic ( BNR ), the Belarusian government in exile.

In September 2005, by order of President Alexander Lukashenko, four members of the Belarusian National Front opposition were each fined almost 4 millions roubles ( roughly 1500 Euro ) for celebrating the 491st anniversary of the battle.

Born in the village of Triles, then part of the Stoŭbtsy Raion in the USSR's Minsk voblast ( and now in Belarus ), Lebedko emerged in the 1990s as one of the leading critics of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, whom Lebedko, along with other opposition leaders and many western governments, considers a dictator.

The law expresses the sense of Congress that the Belarusian authorities should not receive various types of non-humanitarian financial aid from the U. S. It also calls for the President to report to Congress on arms sales by Belarus to state sponsors of terrorism and on the personal wealth and assets of senior Belarus officials.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko considers this act an intervention into the internal affairs of Belarus.

In May 2012, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko called for her release and wanted to grant her asylum in Belarus.

The candidate is evaluated, and if deemed worthy, the nomination is forwarded to the Council of Ministers and then, after having been allowed by the Governmental Secretariat of the Belarusian Security Council, to the President of the Republic.

Resistance from the Russian Orthodox Church and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, however, meant the visit never happened.

The party said it may consider supporting the candidacy of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for the Presidency of Russia in 2008, a move which was unconstitutional because Lukashenko is not a Russian citizen.

The Belarusian Social Democratic Party ( People's Assembly ) (, Biełaruskaja Sacyjal-Demakratyčnaja Partyja ( Narodnaja Hramada )) is an unregistered social democratic political party in Belarus which opposes the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko.

President Lukashenko stated in his 2003 address to the nation the need for the BRSM to play a key role in Belarusian life:

The Belarusian Presidential Guard or officially the Presidential Security Service ( Служба бяспекі прэзiдэнта Республікi Беларусь ) is a law-enforcement body that was designed to protect the President of Belarus and other high-ranking officials and officers.

Section Four, which is divided into four chapters, outlines the functions of the Belarusian Government, mainly the President of the Republic of Belarus, the Council of Ministers, the Parliament of Belarus and the courts.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko expressed doubt about the future of the CSTO for failing to prevent Bakiyev's overthrow, stating, " What sort of organization is this one, if there is bloodshed in one of our member states and an anticonstitutional coup d ' etat takes place, and this body keeps silent?

The President is the personification of unification of the Belarusian state when conducting foreign or internal affairs and shall be the main representative when dealing with other nations or international organizations.

As the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Belarusian Armed Forces, the President has the duty to protect the Belarusian territory from internal and external forces.

Mirnyi was supposed to be the flag bearer of the Belarus national team for the official opening of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, but Belarusian sport officials changed their minds after they found out that Mirnyi let one Belarusian glamour magazine publish erotic images of himself and his wife.

Although of a noble Belarusian stock ( szlachta ), Josaphat's father had devoted himself to commercial pursuits, and held the office of town-councilor.

Bykaŭ wrote all of his works in his native Belarusian language, and translated several of them into Russian by himself.

Also, the Belarusian scientific school of the 20th century tends to interpret the " Litvin / Lithuanian " denomination of the Medieval / Renaissance period as a politonym rather than ethnonym, and so it is pointed out that when Siemienowicz writes about himself as " Litvin or Lithuanian ", he means just a citizen of Great Duchy of Lithuania, not ethnicity.

The Council of the European Union decided against Belarus in 1997: The PCA was not concluded, nor was its trade-related part ; Belarusian membership in the Council of Europe was not supported ; bilateral relations at the ministerial level were suspended and EU technical assistance programs were frozen.

In March 2011, following Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko's crackdown on the Belarusian democracy movement, Spacey, along with Jude Law and others, joined street protests against Lukashenko.

The Belarusian government is also criticized for human rights violations and its actions against NGOs, independent journalists, national minorities and opposition politicians.

The international reaction to the Yugoslav and Belarusian report on one hand, ( which supported the view that those killed were KLA fighters, not civilians as claimed by the Kosovo-Albanians and NATO ) and that of the EU expert team on the other, ( which did not find any evidence to suggest that the dead were combatants ) differed considerably, not least in the NATO-countries who were preparing for war against Yugoslavia.

In 2011 Law joined street protests against Alexander Lukashenko and Lukashenko's brutal crackdown on the Belarusian democracy movement.

The January Uprising ( Polish: powstanie styczniowe, Lithuanian: 1863 m. sukilimas, Belarusian: Паўстанне 1863-1864 гадоў ) was an uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( present-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, parts of Ukraine, western Russia ) against the Russian Empire.

That flag is used in protests against the government and by certain groups of the Belarusian diaspora.

A vertical red-on-white Belarusian decorative pattern, which occupies one-ninth of the flag's length, is placed against the flagstaff.

Since it was dropped as the official emblem of Belarus, opposition groups such as the Belarusian People's Front have used the Pahonia as part of their own party symbols or used them as a form of protest against Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.

On November 17, 2003, the Minsk City Court on 17 ordered Narodnaya Volya to pay 50 million Belarusian rubles in damages for libel against Yahor Rybakou, the chairman of the Belarusian State Television and Radio Company ( BDT ).

Rod ( Belarusian, Russian, Serbian: Род, Ukrainian: Рід, other Slavic languages: Rod ) is a Slavic deity, often mentioned in the Old Church Slavonic didactic literature which was directed against pagans.

* On 24 March 2006, Belarusian OMON stormed the opposition's tent camp at the Minsk October Square without provocation, violently ending the peaceful Jeans Revolution against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.

State Department spokesman Richard Boucher says the U. S. is concerned about the Belarusian government's increasingly repressive steps against independent media and pro-democracy groups.

He says that Belarusian security forces used excessive force against peaceful protesters following the parliamentary elections and referendum.

They perform in the Belarusian language, and are a rallying point for political opposition to the Belarusian government, despite a performance ban used during 2006-2009 against them.

In 1919, despite suffering from tuberculosis, he volunteered for the Polish militia ( Lithuanian and Belarusian Self-Defence ) and took part in the defence of Vilnius against the Bolshevik assault in the early stages of the Polish-Bolshevik War.

General Bułak-Bałachowicz was hoping for a Belarusian all-national uprising against Bolshevik Russia.

For his resistance against Bolshevik forces that killed local Belarusian peasantry, members of Belarusian minority in Poland regard him as their national hero.

Conducting of a series of street actions and pickets dedicated to victims of political repressions in Belarus, in Minsk ( action in memory of the missing ex-Minister on Internal Affairs Jury Zakharanka, action in memory of deceased human rights activist Jana Palyakova ) and in different cities of the country ( Solidarity Days ), art-performance on the anniversary of adopting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, action against violent military drafts, pickets in protest against the results of the referendum of the year 1996, hanging of the national white-red-white flags on the roofs of buildings in the central streets of Minsk and the regions, participation in mass street actions and demonstrations organized by Belarusian opposition structures ( Day of Freedom-2009, Charnobylsky Shlyakh-2009 ), conducting of voluntary street actions aimed at cleaning up the territory of the city ; action-performance “ Throw at me if you don ’ t like the regime !” on December 2, 2009.