16:52 Lukashenka: IMF is guilty, but devaluation was needed

Alyaksandr Lukashenka commented on the Belarusian ruble devaluation only a week after it happened.

15:45 Belarusian oil refineries suffering huge losses

Income of Mozyr oil refinery plant in December 2008 amounted to I million dollars against 2 million in November and 14 million dollars in October. So, income of Mozyr oil refinery plant in December is 14 times less.

14:15 New appointments in Lukashenka’s administration: Pyatkevich to turn to ideology (Updated)

Alyaksandr Lukashenka has made personnel changes ion his administration and a number of ministers.

14:00 Died journalist Anatol Maisenya would have celebrated his 50th birthday

On this day, fifty years ago, journalist and politologist Anatol Maisenya, one of the brightest persons in the modern history of Belarus of late 1980ies-middle 1990ies, was born.

8:39 National Bank admits foreign currency deficit in the country

Foreign cash deficit in currency exchange offices is temporal, the National Bank of Belarus thinks.

8:27 Convicted in Minsk lawyer Zeltser needs urgent cardiac surgery

US citizen Emanuel Zeltser, serving his three-year punishment in Belarus, must be taken to the United States for cardiac surgery, including coronary bypass surgery.