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After the vote, Belarus is set to form a new state body — the 1,200-seat All-Belarus Popular Assembly that will include top officials, local legislators, union members, pro-government activists ...
Unlike other post-Soviet states after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Belarus preserved state control and ownership over most national media. De jure, the constitution of Belarus guarantees the rights of citizens to freedom of speech, prohibits censorship and monopolization of mass media. [1]
Between February 2007 and November 2008, it attempted 24-hour broadcasting, using the overnight hours to broadcast films and a short edition of Nashe Novosti at 3am. In the summer of 2008, the ONT TV channel exclusively broadcast in Belarus all the games of the UEFA Euro 2008 European Football Championship live
Belarus was once a major center of European Jews, with 10% of the population being Jewish. But since the mid-20th century, the number of Jews has been reduced by the Holocaust, deportation, and emigration, so that today it is a very small minority of less than one percent. [271] The Lipka Tatars, numbering over 15,000, are predominantly Muslims.
The trial of two journalists who were arrested while conducting a live video broadcast of a protest in Minsk, Belarus, began on Tuesday, February 9, in Minsk.Daria Chultsova, a camerawoman for the ...
News bulletins are broadcast daily from 7 am to 10 pm three times per hour. ERB has three flagship programs – EuroZOOM, Petard, and Cardiogram. EuroZoom is a daily informational program that covers Belarus in the political and cultural space of Europe. [23] Petard presents the five most actual topics of the current events.
Belarus said on Wednesday that police had fired live rounds at protesters in the city of Brest and arrested more than 1,000 people nationwide, intensifying a crackdown that has prompted the ...
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an area of 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) with a population of 9.1 million.