Belarus has violated agreements with the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

Italian opposition leaders expressed their serious concern over the visit of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to Belarus to meet dictator Lukashenka.

The Free Hugs action ended not having started in Savetskaya Street in Hrodna.

A source in PRIME TASS refutes reports of Lukashenka's press-service about creation of a single customs territory.

A presentation of the book "The Firing Squad" by the former Minsk remand prison number 1 Aleh Alkaeu has taken place in The Hague.

The Italian Prime Minister didn't raise a question of human rights in Belarus during his meeting with last Europe's dictator Lukashenka in Minsk. The issues of free elections, political prisoners, and freedom of speech weren't discussed.

The Justice Ministry demands the Party of Communists of Belarus (PKB) additional explanations concerning changing of the party's name.

Belarusian human rights activists say the main problems of the electoral legislation haven't been solved, making it impossible to talk about holding free elections in the country.

Belarus wouldn't crawl to the European Union, Alyaksandr Lukashenka told in an interview to the Italian newspaper La Stampa. The thought is interesting, but one thing gets attention: we have already heard something like this.

The head of the Belarusian Charitable Fund for the Children of Chernobyl Henadz Hrushavy does not do not rule out the possibility that the meeting of Belarus and Italy presidents could be held under a cover of charity.

The "chamber of representatives" has started consideration of the draft law on amending the Electoral Code.