Belarus

MINSK, November 27. /TASS/: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday he will not stay in office under a new constitution.

"I am not amending the constitution for myself. I will not continue as president under a new constitution. So, relax, take it easy," BelTA news agency quoted him as saying during a meeting with medics of Minsk’s 6th city hospital.

MINSK, November 26. /TASS/: Belarus is ready to overcome problems existing in the modern world together with Russia, including the coronavirus pandemic and the US ambitions for "the ultimate world domination," Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated on Thursday.

The Belarusian leader met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Minsk.

MINSK, November 24. /TASS/: The West would like to involve Russia in toppling the current regime in Belarus, but currently has no idea how to do that, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speculated Tuesday, according to the BelTA news agency.

MINSK, November 20. /TASS/: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that the foreign intelligence services of Belarus and Russia disclosed the centers of the US intelligence agencies operating outside Warsaw and Kiev, the Belarusian news agency BelTA reported on Friday.

MINSK, November 15. /TASS/: Several dozen people were detained near Pushkinskaya metro station in Minsk where opposition activists are gathering to pay tribute to a Minsk citizen, Roman Bondarenko, who died on November 12, a TASS correspondent reported.

A large number of security forces and special equipment have been concentrated near the metro station. They are preventing protesters from approaching a "people’s memorial" set up on the site where another Minsk citizen Alexander Taraykovsky was killed early on August 11.

MINSK, November 13. /TASS/: The organizers of protest demonstrations in Belarus had hoped to plunge the country into chaos at least for a couple of days and then to request foreign military assistance, President Alexander Lukashenko told foreign media on Friday. Extracts from that interview were aired by the Belarusian TV broadcaster STV.

MINSK, November 7. /TASS/: President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko proposed Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev to create a subsidiary of the Russian state corporation in Belarus, he said on Saturday visiting BelNPP.

"Alexander Lukashenko discussed the prospects for cooperation with the Russian side in the field of nuclear energy with the Director General of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev. The presidnet proposed to create a subsidiary of the Russian state corporation in Belarus," BelTA news agency reported.

MINSK, November 7. /TASS/: The first power unit of the Belarusian NPP has reached a capacity of 400 MW, the country's energy ministry reported on Friday.

The ceremony to increase the power unit's capacity was held with the participation of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. According to Lukashenko, with the commissioning of this nuclear power plant, Belarus joins the world club of states using atomic energy for peaceful purposes.

MINSK, November 3. /TASS/: Belarus and Russia continue talks on natural gas pricing in 2021 and Minsk has no debts for consumed gas at present, Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko said on Monday on the air with the Belarus-1 TV Channel.

"Settlements for consumed gas have been completed; we have no debt to the Russian Federation. We would like to negotiate in the near future the natural gas pricing for Belarus in the next year, expecting that it will be attractive for us," Golovchenko said.

MINSK, November 2. /TASS/: Police detained some 300 people at unauthorized rallies in Minsk and the Minsk Region on November 1, Belarusian Interior Ministry Spokesperson Olga Chemodanova said on her Telegram channel on Monday.

"Nearly 300 people were detained for violating the law on mass events in Minsk and in the Minsk Region, and administrative protocols were drawn up against them," the spokesperson said.