After the December 2010 elections in Belarus, democratic activists and opponents of Belarus’s newly ‘re-elected’ President Alexander Lukashenko raised a storm over what they deemed to be fraud elections. President Lukashenko, who has been in office since 1994, was re-elected into office with more than 80% of the nation’s votes. More than 700 people were arrested...

After the December 2010 elections in Belarus, democratic activists and opponents of Belarus’s newly ‘re-elected’ President Alexander Lukashenko raised a storm over what they deemed to be fraud elections. President Lukashenko, who has been in office since 1994, was re-elected into office with more than 80% of the nation’s votes. More than 700...

The announcement of the formation of a customs union between Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Russia was delivered at Monday’s Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEc) summit of 2010 in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Leaders of the three countries including Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev declared that the three countries, after many years of talks and consideration,...

Belarus faces more than 80% of its gas shipments being cut off by the Russian gas giant, OAO Gazprom, due to its unpaid gas debt of 200 million USD. Gazprom announced that the government of Belarus must repay all of the gas debt by the 21st of June, this coming Monday or else. “If Belarus or any other country for that matter has a much needed resource like gas choked...