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	Belarus - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Under the 1994 constitution, Belarus was to have a unicameral legislature (Supreme Soviet) of 260 members elected by universal adult suffrage for a term of five years.
		Belarus is divided administratively into six oblasts, which have the same names as their largest cities.
		Opposition parties include the BPF-Revival (formerly the Belarusian Popular Front, founded as a pro-reform movement in 1988), the Belarusian Social Democratic Party (National Assembly), the Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly, the United Civic Party, and the Party of Communists of Belarus.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761553191___31/Belarus.html (908 words)

	Belarus Update - European Forum
		The oppositional parties, not represented in the parliament, are often internally divided and have to cope with all sorts of governmental hinder.
		Party leader Anatal Lyabedzka narrowly lost the vote from Aliaksandr Milinkevich during the congress of democratic forces in october 2005, when the united opposition candidate for the presidential elections was choosen.
		The Belarusian Party of Communists is in opposition and co-exists with the pro-government Communist Party of Belarus.
	www.europeanforum.net /country/belarus (8384 words)

	Belarus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Belarus declared independence from the Soviet Union on 27 July 1990, and the BSSR formally became the Republic of Belarus on 25 August 1991.
		Belarus is a republic, governed by a President and a bicameral parliament—the National Assembly—comprising a lower house, the 110 member House of Representatives, and an upper house, the 64 member Council of the Republic.
		However, there are three political parties who hold seats in the 110 member National Assembly: the Communist Party of Belarus (8 seats), the Agrarian Party of Belarus (3 seats), and the Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus (1 seat).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belarus (4326 words)

	Belarus
		Belarus, officially Respublika Belarus (Republic of Belarus), landlocked republic in east central Europe, bordered by Russia to the east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and the Baltic republics of Latvia and Lithuania to the northwest.
		Belarus was established in 1919 as the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR), which in 1922 became one of the four founding republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
		Belarus has four additional discernible geographic regions: an area of lakes, hills, and forests in the north; an agricultural region with mixed-conifer forests in the west; a broad elevated plain in the east; and the Poles’ye (also called the Pripet Marshes), a lowland of rivers and swamps that extends into Ukraine, in the south.
	members.tripod.com /sdapts/WAF/Countries/belarus.htm (1862 words)

	List of liberal parties -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This is an overview of parties that adhere more or less (explicitly) to the ideas of (additional info and facts about political liberalism) political liberalism and is therefore a list of liberal parties around the world.
		These parties sometimes prefer to name themselves (A person who has radical ideas or opinions) radical or progressive liberal and are generally quite positive about the role of the state while continuing to support a market economy.
		The (A former political party in the United States; founded by Theodore Roosevelt during the presidential campaign of 1912; its emblem was a picture of a bull moose) Progressive Party (Framsóknarflokkurinn, member (Chinese distance measure; approximately 0.5 kilometers) LI) is an agrarian liberal party.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_liberal_parties.htm (6299 words)

	BACKGROUND Belarus
		Independent Belarus Belarus Following the August 1991 coup d'état in Moscow and declarations of independence by Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine, the Supreme Soviet in Minsk declared the independence of Belarus on August 25, 1991, by giving its Declaration of State Sovereignty the status of a constitutional document and renaming the country the Republic of Belarus.
		Some 70 percent of the radiation spewed was carried by the wind to Belarus, where it affected at least 25 percent of the country--especially the Homyel' (Gomel' in Russian) and Mahilyow (Mogilëv in Russian) voblastsi (sing., voblasts'), or counties, in the south and southeast, and 22 percent of the population.
		Belarus has instituted a pronatal policy to counteract women's reluctance to have children, but difficult economic conditions and fear of birth defects caused by environmental pollution continue to be major causes of the decline in the birthrate.
	www.district87.org /staff/gordonr/russia/belarus.htm (10814 words)

	Belarus Project
		Portugal has for months been asking Belarus to come up with a new mandate and Aleixo said Khvostov's pledge was therefore "encouraging." Still, the Oporto meeting is not expected to resolve the thorny issue of Belarus' decision to expulse the OSCE from Minsk after accusing the mission of interfering in its internal affairs.
		The Belarus Update is a weekly news bulletin of the Belarus Human Rights Support Project of the International League for Human Rights (www.ilhr.org) The League, now in its 61st year, is a New York-based human rights NGO in consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC.
		The Belarus project was established to support Belarusian citizens in making their case for the protection of civil society before the international community regarding Alexander Lukashenko's wholesale assault on human rights and the rule of law in Belarus.
	www.ilhr.org /ilhr/regional/belarus/updates/2002/49_02.htm (2487 words)

	NATO PA - 17 October 2006 - More Proactive Strategy towards Belarus Needed [PRESS COMMUNIQUE]
		Unfortunately, the democratic opposition remains weak and divided. Representatives of the Social-Democratic Party (Hramada) and the United Civic Party of Belarus refused to regard Mr.
		Russia's virtual subsidies to Belarus in the form of oil, gas and electric energy supplies amount to 13% of Belarus' GDP and are crucial for the country's economy.
		Belarus has not participated in the NATO PA since 1997, when the status of Associate Member (granted in 1991) was suspended as a result of the increasingly undemocratic activities of the Lukashenko regime.
	www.nato-pa.int /Default.asp?CAT2=0&CAT1=0&CAT0=0&SHORTCUT=1017 (792 words)

	Country Profiles Foreign & Commonwealth Office
		Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe and borders Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine.
		Belarus' Presidential election on 19 March 2006 was characterised by massive fraud and intimidation of the opposition.
		Belarus was occupied and devastated by the Germans in World War II, losing between a quarter and a third of its population.
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	Liberal parties
		A liberal party is defined here as a political party, that adheres to the basic principles of (political) liberalism.
		These parties sometimes prefer to name themselves radical or progressive liberal and are generally quite positive about the role of the state.
		Many liberal or similar parties are member of the Liberal International and/or of its regional partners, like the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/liberal_parties (1746 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Regional : Europe : Belarus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Belarus declared independence from the Soviet Union on 27 July 1990, and the BSSR formally became the Republic of Belarus on 25 August 1991.
		Belarus is a republic, governed by a President and a bicameral parliament—the National Assembly—comprising a lower house, the 110 member House of Representatives, and an upper house, the 64 member Council of the Republic.
		Belarus is divided into six provinces ("voblasts"), named after the cities that serve as their administrative centers.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Regional-Europe/Belarus.shtml (4214 words)

	Belarus News and Analysis \| Belarus: Spy Agencies Open Presidential Election Season
		Whatever foreign NGOs may say about what they do in Belarus, they are surely unable to convince the Belarusian KGB that their activities are not tantamount to political subversion.
		He claimed that the West has already provided $5 million "for a coup in Belarus" and is going to spend as much as $50 million to oust Lukashenka.
		United Civic Party leader Anatol Lyabedzka, a potential challenger of President Lukashenka in the 2006 election, shrugs off such pre-election propagandistic excesses by the regime.
	www.data.minsk.by /belarusnews/052005/54.html (578 words)

	Rice backs Belarusian opposition
		She told them there will be "a road to democracy in Belarus", which she has described as the "last true dictatorship" in central Europe.
		Belarus and Russia have accused Ms Rice of meddling in the country's affairs.
		Alexander Dobrovoskiy, deputy chairman of the United Civic Party, who was at the meeting, said Ms Rice supported the creation of a credible political alternative to the current regime.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/belarus_rice_backs_opposition.htm (432 words)

	Belarus Program Activities
		More imperative to Belarus' democratic future than the president's lack of support, is the appearance of a coalition of political parties and NGOs with the desire, capacity, and, most importantly, the courage to fight against the totalitarian status quo and for a better life for all Belarusians.
		As the political parties and NGOs of Five Plus begin to spread their message through a broad-reaching grassroots campaign, their colleagues in Respublika are introducing legislation in the Belarusian parliament based on the Five Steps to a Better Life.
		Belarus is a known supplier of arms to rogue states and is the last stop on the route for drug runners from points further south and east before they ply their evil trade in Europe.
	www.iri.org /eurasia/belarus/2004-03-31-SteveTestimony.asp (1343 words)

	CER \| Belarus: Lukasenka a mental lunatic?
		In particular, Kozak said that the perception exists in the United States and in Europe that the processes by which the Belarusian Parliament had been selected in October 2000 did not meet basic standards that are applied to all members of the OSCE.
		The interior ministry's spokesman stressed that the main component of the operation had been psychological influence, and that the use of "special-purpose equipment" (apparently tear gas and truncheons) had been limited and arms were not used at all.
		Belarus has such agreements with Denmark, Ireland, Israel, Italy, and Sweden, a state in Germany and six states in the United States.
	www.ce-review.org /01/2/belarusnews2.html (1820 words)

	LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Un' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
		United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
		United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /u/un (785 words)

	HOW “UNITED” IS THE UNITED OPPOSITION IN BELARUS? - Eurasia Daily Monitor
		The united opposition campaign during the 2006 Belarusian presidential election was a creditable effort, particularly in the weeks leading up to the vote as well during the protests afterward in October Square.
		Anatol Lyabedzka, leader of the United Civic Party, and the candidate narrowly defeated for the united leadership by Alexander Milinkevich, attended a meeting of the Political Council of the democratic forces, but refused to vote for a new two-year strategy to bring democracy to Belarus.
		Meanwhile yet another democratic leader, the exiled Zyanon Paznyak, was recently reelected as the leader of the Conservative Christian Party of the BPF by 94 votes to 2 at the party's 7th congress, held at the Palace of Culture of the Minsk Tractor factory on May 27 (Belapan, May 27).
	jamestown.org /edm/article.php?article_id=2371164 (761 words)

	Chernobyl commemoration ends in large-scale arrests :: Charter'97 :: News :: 03/05/2005
		One of the actions organized by opposition parties, including the United Civic Party of Belarus and the Belarusian National Front, had called on individuals to address President Lukashenka in a personal appeal starting with: Greetings, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, I have a number of questions, to which you, according to current legislation are obliged to respond.
		When youth activists from Belarus, Ukraine and Russia unfurled banners, stating: “For your and our freedom” and “Today Ukraine, tomorrow Belarus” and started moving towards the building, members of OMON reportedly violently pushed a small group of people to the opposite side of the street.
		A second group of people, including one of the organizers of a sanctioned demonstration on Bangalor square, leader of the United Civic Party of Belarus, Marina Bogdanovich, was arrested when a second attempt was made to reach the post-box.
	www.charter97.org /eng/news/2005/05/03/demon (1046 words)

	UCPB - Latest news
		Andrey Klimov, the member of the United civil party, the deputy of the Supreme Council of the 13th convocation, the entrepreneur was arrested on the 3-rd of April 2007
		Party leaders claimed that the actions of law-enforcement representatives who had forced people out of Oktiabrskaja Square were in breach with the right of citizens for free movement.
		Party leaders are asking prosecution to explain whether Oktiabrskaja Square is a place of a special regime or a private property of some individual or a legal person so that people are not allowed to stay there.
	www.ucpb.org /?lang=eng (3575 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Europe & Central Asia: Belarus
		The opposition united behind Vladimir Goncharik of the Independent Trade Union of Belarus, but had little chance of beating the odds.
		The United States followed closely the presidential campaign and elections in Belarus, issuing statements harshly criticizing authorities' treatment of the independent media, civil society, opposition candidates, and election monitors.
		The State Department's first annual report on trafficking in persons, released in July, assigned Belarus the lowest of three possible ratings, citing corruption, lack of programs to assist victims and witnesses, detention of victims during investigation, prosecution of victims for violations of other laws, and the criminal code's light penalty for trafficking.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k2/europe4.html (1855 words)

	Belarus: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns
		Belarus: Georgians held as prisoners of conscience as clampdown on opposition continues
		Belarus: Prisoner of Conscience Professor Yury Bandazhevsky Freed
		Belarus: Punished for exercising their right to freedom of expression
	amnestyusa.org /countries/belarus/document.do?... (107 words)

	Language Policy in the Republic of Belarus in the 1990s
		Nevertheless, due to the declaration of Belarus sovereignty gradual de-monopolisation of the party’s power and the Suspension of communist parties in the USSR and BSSR (CPSU and CPB, respectively), communist MPs were forced to succumb to the efforts of the few national democrats.
		The party demanded that the rights of parents to teach their children in either Russian or Belarusian be not hampered.
		In February 1999, the Congress of Democratic Forces of Belarus adopted a special resolution entitled “The Discrimination of the Belarusian language in the Republic of Belarus”, concluding that the Belarusian people’s rights for the free development of their native language and culture are being “grossly violated“.
	www.belarusguide.com /culture1/literature/Belarusian_Language_Prosecution_in_Belarus.htm (5176 words)

	ILHR - International League for Human Rights
		Belarus now has a staunch advocate in the international arena and may hope that the new Russian PM will apply his expanded powers to resolve problems of bilateral economic relations.
		Belarus expects its grain harvest to fall to 5.8 million tons this year from 7 million tons in 1997, Ivan Shakola, Belarus Minister of Agriculture, told the government newspaper Zvyazda on September 11.
		The Belarus project was established to support Belarusian citizens in making their cases before the U.S. government and public and international fora and intergovernmental organizations regarding President Alexander Lukashenko's wholesale assault on human rights and the rule of law in Belarus.
	www.ilhr.org /belarus/bupdate_19.html (2401 words)

	United Civic Party devising election platform for 2006 presidential vote :: Charter'97 :: News :: 02/05/2005
		The United Civic Party (UCP) has gotten down to developing a program that could be used by a single opposition candidate as an election platform in next year’s presidential campaign.
		The politician expressed hope that the document, which is expected to embrace all spheres, including economy, politics, culture and education, would become part of a national strategy of pro-democracy forces.
		Belarus does not release jailed Ukrainians because of special attitude toward their country, Ukrainian foreign minister says
	www.charter97.org /eng/news/2005/05/02/ogp (343 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		It should also be remembered that Rice in January designated Belarus, along with Cuba, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, Iran, and North Korea, as an "outpost of tyranny" in the present-day world.
		And in October 2004, shortly before a controversial constitutional referendum in Belarus, the U.S. Congress adopted the Belarus Democracy Act, a bill intended to promote democratic development, human rights, and the rule of law in Belarus, as well as encourage the consolidation and strengthening of Belarus's sovereignty and independence.
		Belarus has practically become Russia's last ally in the post-Soviet area, irrespective of what we think of Lukashenka.
	www.rferl.org /reports/pbureport/2005/05/19-170505.asp (4160 words)

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