The government of Russia has introduced for consideration by the State Duma the draft law on trade and economic balance adjustment measures in the sphere of oil and oil products export.

Yesterday during celebration dedicated to Women's History Month US President George W. Bush paid tribute to women who have defied the governments of Belarus, Cuba and Myanmar. He honored the wife of jailed Belarus opposition leader Alyaksandr Kazulin, Iryna, and

Recently in different regions of Belarus tax rate for individual entrepreneurs started to be raised.

Newspaper of the Alyaksandr Lukashenka's Administration "Sovetskaya Belorussia" has touched a subject of imposing by the United States sanctions against Belneftekhim.

Lawyer Vera Stramkouskaya visited the activist of entrepreneurs' movement in the pretrial detention center on Valadarski Street yesterday.

A group of independent correspondents spent 5 hours in a militia department. Besides a colonel, ideological officers of the region executive commission spoke with them.

We are coming to the deadlock," Alyaksandr Papkou, deputy head of presidential administration, stated.

In two weeks Belarus is to celebrate the 90th anniversary of proclamation of the Belarusian People's Republic. The leader of the Homel Young Front branch Andrus Tsyaniuta believes that on this day "after 90 years of trial the Belarusian nation

Franak Vyachorka, member of the Youth of the BPF (Belarusian Popular Front), received an answer from the Ministry of Education to his claim against expulsion from faculty of journalism of the Belarusian State University (BSU). In particular, the letter says

Belarus' Embassy in Washington tried to refute statements of US Department of State spokesman Tom Casey on participants of the recent meeting between OSCE countries ambassadors and the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The public statement says the embassy expects

A 46-year-old British citizen Andrew Smulian, an associate of a suspected Russian arms dealer Viktar Bout has been arrested in New York. As well as Viktor Bout, he was charged with conspiracy for allegedly trying to smuggle missiles and rocket