18:12 Merry Christmas!

Dear friends! Our most heartfelt wishes to you on Christmas day! We wish happiness, success and inspiration to you and those you love.

18:04 American doctor to examine US citizen Zeltser in penal colony

On January 6, US citizen Emanuel Zeltser, kept in a Mahilou penal colony, is to be examined by an American specialist again.

17:44 General Zakharanka abducted in Belarus would have turned 57

On January 4 the former Interior Minister of Belarus Yury Zakharanka would have turned 57. The politician disappeared without traces in 1999. High-ranking Belarusian officials are suspected of being implicated in the abduction.

16:28 Minsk printing-house refused to publish independent newspaper “Borisovskiye novosti”

Since the begging of this year independent social and political newspaper “Borisovskiye Novosti” has been deprived a possibility to be printed, and to be distributed via its own retail network.

15:38 Lukashenka reprimanded Navumau and Kuznyatsou (Updated)

Interior Minister Uladzimir Navumau and chairman of the State committee on property Ryhor Kuznyatsou are reprimanded.

15:23 Plants paying with tinned meat

Leading enterprises of Orsha do not have money to pay their employees.

14:52 Lukashenka “turned” 2009 budget into a deficit-free

By his decree Alyaksandr Lukashenka set a limit to the deficit of the country budget in 2009 at 0.0 thousand Belarusian rubles.

13:48 Dollar’s exchange rate reached 3,000 Belarusian rubles at Minsk markets

On January 6, sellers asked 3,000 rubles per 1 dollar at some markets of Minsk.

11:53 Regime invited Ramanchuk and Vardamatsky to save image of dictatorship abroad

Prime Minister has offered Yaraslau Ramanchuk and Andrei Vardamatsky to “marketing of the country”.

11:21 Mark Ravenhill: “My highlight of 2008? Hooking up with the scary and unstoppable Free Theatre of Belarus”

One of the world’s leading playwrights Mark Ravenhill wrote an article dedicated to the Free Theatre in The Guardian.

10:40 National bank does not recommend taking credits, and called rumours about denomination “subversive act”

The National bank of Belarus does not recommend people to take loans in banks, said the spokesperson of the National Bank of Belarus Anatol Drazdou on air of the ONT channel.

8:43 Most Belarusian plants stay idle since the beginning of the year due to crisis

A lot of the country’s big enterprises have not started functioning after the Christmas season.

8:01 ABB head Felix Charnyauski: Belarusian banks face default

Default banks that attract credits from abroad, believes chairman of the Belarusian banks association.

January 2009 will be free of work for most enterprises of automobile, agricultural machinery, and radio-electronic industries.