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  Belarusian ruble - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
In the end of June 1993 the withdrawal of Russian and Soviet roubles from the turnover began.
In December 2002 on a meeting of prime ministers of Belarus and Russia, it was declared that at the beginning, the Russian rouble would be introduced as a common currency.
It was planned that since July 1, 2003 the Russian rouble would be introduced in Belarus for banking operations and completely replace the Belarusian rouble on January 1, 2004.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Belarussian_ruble   (1016 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Belarussian Ruble
Belarussian, an Eastern Slavic language written in both Cyrillic and Latin scripts, has been the country's official language since 1990; Russian, which continued to be officially used, was approved as a state language in 1995.
Belarussian State University (1921), in Minsk, is the leading institution of the country's 11 general and 7 specialized universities.
The official currency is the Belarussian ruble, also known as the zaichik (6847 Belarussian rubli equal U.S.$1; 2002).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Belarussian-Ruble   (2691 words)

  
 liberty-belarus.info - MACROECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN BELARUS:BETWEEN "SUBSIDARKHS" AND GLOBAL MARKETS
Belarussian system of decision making is in many respects incompatible with the Western model that is driven and shaped by globalization process.
Commercial banks, Belarussian rouble holders, rouble depositors, enterprises (working capital) off-government most favored entities list were net payers as the whole Belarussian financial system has been working in the mode of negative interest rate for the third year.
Belarussian decision making process is directed not at meeting demands of the globalizing economy but rather at curtailing direct effective links with foreign economic actors.
liberty-belarus.info /content/view/26/34   (3998 words)

  
 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Setbacks to rouble union may signal its demise
Belarus, Russia's neighbour to the West, was scheduled to partially introduce the rouble July 1, but analysts now say the project may likely be shelved altogether as Lukashenko uses the issue to bargain for Kremlin support to violate the Belarussian Constitution and serve a third term as president.
But the economic cost of a rouble peg or joint currency could be substantial since Belarus would no longer be able to prop up its exports with a weak currency.
The introduction of the rouble could also have a small inflationary effect on Belarus, but its impact is unlikely to be significant.
www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/ntr33218.htm   (881 words)

  
 Travel Information
Belarussian weather is hotter in the summer and colder in the winter compared to Irish weather.
While there are a number of options to attain a visa our preferred option is to have all your volunteer application forms and your passport submitted to us at least six weeks prior to your trip.
As the guidelines from the Belarussian government vary, please talk to us in the office prior to your departure and we will let you know the current process.
www.burrenchernobyl.ie /travel_information.htm   (963 words)

  
 Green Left - Belarus president follows in Yeltsin's footsteps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Belarussian society today is remote from socialism; for one thing, centralised economic planning broke down before independence and has never been restored.
The crash of the Belarussian economy has been somewhat less dire than the collapse brought about in Russia by the neo-liberal nostrums employed there; official statistics put the drop in industrial output in Belarus between 1990 and 1995 at 39%, compared with a Russian figure of about 50%.
But among his best weapons as he tightens the screws on Belarussian society is the fact that many of the mechanisms he aims to use were blessed by world opinion-setters in 1993.
www.greenleft.org.au /1996/251/13214   (1338 words)

  
 The Russia Journal » 2001 » July
The rouble’s weighted average for today settlement fell to 29.1798 per dollar in a unified session of eight exchanges after 29.1588 per dollar on Monday.
Dealers said an increase in rouble liquidity also helped to push the rouble down, as banks’ balances on their correspondent accounts at the central bank rose to 93.49 billion roubles on Tuesday from 90.75 billion roubles on Monday.
Roubles for tomorrow settlement were not traded against the dollar ahead of the U.S. holiday.
www.russiajournal.com /?m=20010703&jal_no_js=true&poll_id=9   (1782 words)

  
 Wasted Times Chronicle
Belarussian transitional currency, the so-called “hares” (due to pictures of animals on the notes) are not in demand in Lithuania at all, for it merely duplicates Russian Roubles and circulates within Belarus only.
Speaking on Belarussian TV during a two-days visit to Minsk, the Russian Minister on CIS Countries Cooperation Aman Tuleev, alleges, that four attempts has been made at Alexander Lukashenko’s life, and “another one is plotted to happen in the near future in the town of Slutsk”.
Belarussian entrepreneur breeders present 4 new varieties of soya, suitable for cultivation in Belarus on the latitude of Minsk.
www.br.minsk.by /book/skurat.htm   (15760 words)

  
 Rouble, rouble dollar, 1 rouble
Rouble accounts and payments is one of the bank's valuable and unique.
As at June 13th, the rouble was trading around 28 rouble.5 against the US dollar,.
MOSCOW (AFX) The rouble was trading at 28.78 to the dollar, compared to 28.73 on Wednesday.
www.junk-foods.net /rouble.html   (329 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Vice-premier on common payment unit to be used by Russia, Belarus
High on the agenda in Minsk was an agreement to introduce from January 1, 2005 the Russian rouble as a single payment unit on the territory of the union state.
He expressed the hope that the government would be able to ensure the rouble's reliable stable circulation with the preservation of all its positive parameters and its likelihood of positive impact on certain indices of the Belarussian economy.
The finance minister accounts for this by the fact that the rouble is now enjoying confidence throughout the world and winning positive attitudes because of, among other things, the decreased inflation and stability toward world currencies.
www.newsfromrussia.com /main/2003/06/09/48042_.html   (283 words)

  
 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Minsk offers its pipeline to Gazprom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Gazprom uses Belarussian pipelines to transit gas to its customers in West European markets and has been pressuring Lukashenko for some time to privatise the network.
Lukashenko said there is no longer any need to introduce the rouble for non-cash operations in Belarus, which was originally planned to take place July 1.
Belarussian authorities have recently taken a series of steps against Russian property, including the seizure of a stake that Russian oil major Slavneft holds in Belarussian oil refinery Mozyr.
www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cnr34672.htm   (314 words)

  
 Газета.Ru - No single currency means no gas for Belarus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Russian authorities have officially acknowledged that the agreement with Belarus on introducing the Russian rouble as a single currency will not be signed, whereas another agreement, under which Russia supplies its gas to Minsk at the same price that it is sold at inside Russia, would be revised.
Belarussian officials have downplayed the risk of losing the gas flow presently going through the republic.
Belarussian officials believe that Moscow’s decision to pull out of the gas deal with Belarus is Russia’s response to Alexander Lukashenko’s refusal to sign a pact on the introduction of the Russian rouble as a single currency, prepared by the Russian Finance Ministry.
www.gazeta.ru /2003/09/09/Nosinglecurr.shtml   (740 words)

  
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If there is no Belarussian embassy or consulate in your home country, you can obtain a Belarussian visa at the airport in Minsk (it may be the cheapest way).
The national currency of the Republic of Belarus is the Belarussian rouble.
Belarusian roubles can be exchanged at bank branches or exchange bureaus, which can be easily found in any city and in all hotels, major stores and supermarkets.
www.ecologiatour.com:8100 /welcome.php?id=7   (1165 words)

  
 15th ICS • Belarus, Communist Party of the Soviet Union - English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
To materialize article 13 of the Belarussian Constitution that was adopted as a result of the Referendum in November 1996 by the initiative of the President Lukashenko.
That is why the Belarussian communists perceive the creation of the Unity State as a stage on the way to resurrection of the USSR, as a very important task in the national liberation struggle of the Soviet people, of which the people of Belarus are an integral part.
And only the Belarussian republican branch of the CPSU, as the whole CPSU, remains on the positions of the working class of the Republic and of all USSR, seeing as its main national task the task of resurrection of the renewed Soviet state.
www.ptb.be /scripts/article.phtml?section=A3AAABBNAB&action=allart   (4778 words)

  
 SI - readmsg.aspx msgid=20492313
MINSK - The Belarussian rouble nosedived 30 percent on Thursday to 230,000-260,000 to the dollar in trade on the non-resident interbank exchange, bringing its total decline to 70 percent in two weeks.
He hopes to stem the decline in the rouble by harnessing the currency to the country's gold and foreign currency reserves.
But the rouble will initially be allowed to float on the world's foreign exchange markets, which could leave it at the mercy of international speculators.
www.siliconinvestor.com /readmsg.aspx?msgid=20492313   (1982 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Europe's 'last dictator' defies calls for change
It has also fuelled calls for a Belarussian version of the "Orange revolution" that led to the electoral defeat of neighbouring Ukraine's authoritarian government last December.
But he said a Belarussian revolution "would be disastrous for Putin", who retains a brittle alliance with Mr Lukashenko.
He said a new law requiring 75% of music on the radio to be Belarussian in origin had taxed DJ playlists.
www.guardian.co.uk /russia/article/0,2763,1477717,00.html   (1303 words)

  
 Belarus - Referat
According to the early belarussian constitution Alexander Lukashenko might take part, actually, no more in the presidential election in 2006, by national referendum he let in October, 2004 the constitution so change that no more restriction of the office times any more count to him.
The currency is the belarussian rouble, 10 roubles are straight time 0,003 euros.
After several wars of the 15th and 16-th century, some belarussian areas were resigned to the Moscow state by which a part 1534-1537 was reconquered.
www.lerntippsammlung.de /Belarus.html   (992 words)

  
 Treasury Management International :: Research Library - Risk Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Both the Russian and the Belarussian rouble are depreciated against the USD over time in the form of crawling peg arrangements.
The rouble is fully convertible for current account purposes and in June 1996 Russia officially assumed the obligations of Article VIII of the IMF Charter.
The exchange rate of the Belarussian rouble versus the USD was first pegged in nominal terms at BRB against the USD in nominal terms at an exchange rate of 11,500 BRB/USD.
www.treasury-management.com /Research/RiskManagement/DEUT6.HTM   (684 words)

  
 RAGAS Report: BELARUS RE-VISITED   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
For instance, official government agencies (including archives) must prepare their bills for services for foreigners to pay in US dollars which are converted into Belarussian currency at a special "government rate", lower than that allowed in the commercial exchange office.
However, all that is possible just because expensive goods are not affordable for Belarussians oppressed by their Soviet legacy of low salaries, poverty, the weakness of the freemarket economy, and the power of an all-mighty but ineffective bureaucracy.
Belarussian archivists maintain the old bureaucratic style of keeping the public from knowledge of "internal affairs" in the archives.
www.jewishgen.org /Belarus/ragas_report_belarus_revisited.htm   (3418 words)

  
 Belarus News and Analysis | Belarus bank denies plans of rouble re-denomination
"The re-denomination of the Belarussian rouble is not planned in 2007," the bank's information department said in a statement released on Friday.
In particular, devaluation of the Belarussian rouble's official rate to the US dollar is to be kept within 2.5 percent as of January 1, 2008.
Attractive conditions for keeping deposits in Belarussian roubles will be created both in this and in the coming years," the information department said.
www.data.minsk.by /belarusnews/122006/442.html   (168 words)

  
 Wasted Times Chronicle
The roots of deeper conservatism in Belarussian society could be found in specific conditions of the country’s economic development.
Secondly, in the Soviet times, the well-being of Belarussians grew faster than in other Soviet republics (the top growth rate of domestic income combined with lower starting conditions), causing more satisfaction with existing order and the absence of pro-reform wing among party leaders shortly before the outset of reforms.
Thus, considerable disposition of Belarussian population to traditionalist values became one of the vectors substantially determining today’s development in Belarus.
www.br.minsk.by /book/zlot.htm   (5249 words)

  
 Stolin - ein InternetBilderbuch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The roots of deeper conservatism in Belarussian society could be found in specific conditions of the country’s economic development.
Secondly, in the Soviet times, the well-being of Belarussians grew faster than in other Soviet republics (the top growth rate of domestic income combined with lower starting conditions), causing more satisfaction with existing order and the absence of pro-reform wing among party leaders shortly before the outset of reforms.
Thus, considerable disposition of Belarussian population to traditionalist values became one of the vectors substantially determining today’s development in Belarus.
www.boelling.de /stolin/infos/info_belarus01.htm   (5249 words)

  
 Country profile: Belarus / 21.09.2006 - Foreign Trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The Belarussian authorities have been heavily criticised by human rights and media organisations for suppressing freedom of speech, muzzling the independent press and denying the opposition access to state-owned media.
The Belarussian National State Teleradio Company operates domestic radio and TV channels, and an external radio service.
Belarussian TV — state-run, operates the First National Channel, entertainment network Lad, satellite station Belarus-TV Nationwide TV (ONT) — a joint venture with Russia's Channel One; state holds a majority stake
eng.beltrade.by /news/20.html   (841 words)

  
 Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Belarussia demands guarantees in introducing of Russian rouble   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
01-09-03 Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko believes Moscow should give his country guarantees in the introducing of the Russian rouble as the single currency.
Russia objects to that and the Belarussian leader cannot decide on the introduction of a single currency "without knowing what this may mean for Belarus."
Russian Vice-Premier and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said in Moscow that the time of concluding the Russian-Belarussian single currency agreement depends on the Belarussian side and Moscow is ready to sign it.
www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/ntr33800.htm   (209 words)

  
 NBRB banknotes
After proclamation of independence, banknotes of the State Bank of the USSR were in circulation in the Republic of Belarus for some time, followed by those issued by the Bank of Russia.
In May 1994, the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus resolved that the Belarussian Rouble shall be the sole legal tender in the territory of the Republic of Belarus, while banknotes called token money - in cash transactions.
In accordance with the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus, on January 1, 2000, new banknotes in 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1,000, 5,000, in 2001, 10,000 Roubles, and in 2002, 20,000 and 50,000 Roubles denominations were introduced into circulation and are currently in use.
www.nbrb.by /Natiobank/Banknotes/ENG/index.html   (261 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The two sides did reach an agreement but authoritarian Belarussian president, Alexander Lukashenko, who has based 12 years in power on close links with Moscow, has since made several pro-Western speeches and bitterly criticised Russia.
Putin, however, insisted on Thursday that the union project with Minsk was still alive and even raised the possibility of giving up the rouble to achieve it.
"It is possible that Russia and Belarus will have a common currency and it may not be either the Russian rouble or the Belarussian rouble," Putin said.
today.reuters.co.uk /news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-02-01T115810Z_01_L01867719_RTRUKOT_0_TEXT0.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-R3-RelatedNews-4   (294 words)

  
 Country Profiles Foreign & Commonwealth Office
During the late Soviet period, Belarus developed a significant industrial base (defence industries, tractors, textiles, etc) and its population enjoyed a standard of living that was high for the USSR together with a high level of education.
Consequently, there was an air of unreality to the announcement by the Russian and Belarusian governments in early 2003 that Belarus would adopt the Russian rouble as its currency by 1 January 2005.
This did not happen and the adoption of the Russian rouble was postponed to January 2006 and subsequently to a later date.
www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019233782153   (4287 words)

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