Belarus

MINSK, May 7. /TASS/: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has promised to make public new factual information as part of the case of an attempted coup in Belarus.

"What you - journalists and intelligence agents - who carried out these operations and showed the public is nothing compared to what is going to happen next. You will be horrified at what we are going to show you," BelTA news agency quotes him as saying on Friday.

MINSK, May 7. /TASS/: Belarus has put together retaliatory measures towards the West, in case it slaps new sanctions against the Belarusian state, Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei told journalists Friday.

"We’ve discussed these measures before, they have been prepared. They will fit the situation that is unfolding. Steps by both European and Western opponents won’t be left unanswered. These measures have indeed been hammered out, so we are awaiting further development of the situation and further decisions by our Western partners," the top Belarusian diplomat said.

MINSK, May 4. /TASS/: The European Union and the United States are undermining Minsk's efforts to improve the coronavirus situation, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday.

MINSK, May 4./TASS/: A district court in Gomel, Belarus, has sentenced three members from the action group of former presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and one of her confidants to various prison terms, pronouncing them guilty for plotting mass unrest and seizure of administrative buildings, the prosecutor’s office of the Gomel Region said in a report uploaded to the website of the Belarusian General Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday.

MINSK, May 3. /TASS/: Belarus does not set any tight deadline for coordination of two remaining integration roadmaps with Russia but would prefer not to put this item on the back burner, Prime Minister of the country Roman Golovchenko said on Sunday on the air with the Belarus-1 TV Channel.

MINSK, April 30. /TASS/: The Belarusian Defense Ministry has said it has identified a second air intrusion from Poland this month.

MINSK, April 24. /TASS/: Organizers of the assassination plot against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko allocated $10 million to achieve the goal, Lukashenko told reporters on Saturday.

The BelTA news agency reported citing Lukashenko that armed people were to attack his residence in the countryside, that $10 million were allocated for this purpose and $1 million for the sniper.

(Reuters) --- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday that he would sign a decree allowing the transfer of presidential power to the Belarusian security council if he became unable work as president, the state Belta news agency reported.

The prime minister would head the security council, if the president is absent, Lukashenko added.

MINSK, March 16. /TASS/: A joint Belarusian-Russian combat training center for the Air Force and air defense forces will be set up in Belarus under the agreements reached by the defense ministries of both countries, the Belarusian Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday.

MINSK, March 9. /TASS/: The work on Russian-Belarusian integration is aimed to raise joint competitiveness, Russian Ambassador to Belarus Dmitry Mezentsev said in an interview with the RBC TV channel shown on Tuesday.