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A seven-question referendum was held in Belarus on 24 November 1996. [1] Four questions were put forward by Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, on changing the date of the country's independence day, amending the constitution of Belarus, changing laws on the sale of land and the abolition of the death penalty.
The 1991 Belarusian strikes, also referred to in Belarus as the April Strikes (Belarusian: Красавіцкія забастоўкі, romanized: Krasavickija zabastoŭki), were a series of nationwide strikes and rallies in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (modern-day Belarus).
Approximately 2,500 protesters [18] filled the streets in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, on 17 February to protest a policy that required those who work for less than 183 days [19] per year to pay USD$250 for "lost taxes" to help fund welfare policies. [20] This converts to approximately Rbls 5 million—a half-month's wages. [17]
The 2020–2021 Belarusian protests were [1] a series of political demonstrations and protests against the Belarusian government and President Alexander Lukashenko. [2] [3] The largest anti-government protests in the history of Belarus, the demonstrations began in the lead-up to and during the 2020 presidential election, in which Lukashenko sought his sixth term in office.
Freedom Day has been celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus by the Belarusian independence movement since the early 1920s. It is widely celebrated by the Belarusian diaspora . In the United States , governors and US presidents, including Dwight Eisenhower , Ronald Reagan , George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton , have traditionally issued ...
In such circumstances, a vibrant Ruthenian culture flourished, mostly in the major cities of present-day Belarus. [6] Despite the legal usage of the Ruthenian language, which was used as a chancellery language in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, literature was mostly non-existent, apart from several chronicles.
The October Revolution and the Establishment of Belarusian Statehood, [1] Belarusian-Bolshevik conflict, [2] Conflict between the Council of the All-Belarusian Congress and Oblispolkom, [3] Bolshevik coup d'état in Belarus [4] — political and military confrontation between units in favour of the Great Belarusian Rada and subordinated to the Central Belarusian Military Rada (CWBR) on the one ...
The protests were triggered by a constitutional referendum on amendments to the 1994 Constitution of Belarus.The referendum was called following a dispute between President Lukashenko and the elected parliament, the Thirteenth Supreme Council, over the president's proposal to amend the constitution to extend his term of office from five to seven years, create a second legislative chamber whose ...