After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than have any of the other former Soviet republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a two-state union on 8 December 1999 envisioning greater political and economic integration. Although Belarus agreed to a framework to carry out the accord, serious implementation has yet to take place. Since his election in July 1994 as the country's first and only directly elected president, Aleksandr LUKASHENKO has steadily consolidated his power through authoritarian means and a centralized economic system. Government restrictions on political and civil freedoms, freedom of speech and the press, peaceful assembly, and religion have remained in place. The situation was somewhat aggravated after security services cracked down on mass protests challenging election results in the capital, Minsk, following the 2010 presidential election, but little protest occurred after the 2015 election.
Belarus is a presidential republic in name, although in fact a dictatorship.
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Displaying 36 - 40 of 70Decree No. 428 of the Council of Ministers validating the Regulation on general improvement of the territory and landscaping.
This Decree establishes the criteria for general improvement of the territory and landscaping, in particular urban land and land of inhabited residential areas, as a form of land-use planning. It establishes that territory must be kept clean, free of waste, and have recreational areas and recreational waterbodies for the benefit of the population. Protected areas must have recreational areas with available wood-fired grills (barbecue).
Ministerial Decree No. 462 implementing Presidential Decree No. 667 regarding expropriation and allotment of land plots.
This Decree validates some regulations related to land tenure and land management.
Decree No. 9 of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection validating the Instruction on the modalities of performance of local environmental monitoring by legal persons performing economic and other activities causing negative envi...
This Decree establishes the modalities of performance of local environmental monitoring by legal persons performing economic and other activities causing negative environmental impact, including ecologically hazardous activities. Local environmental monitoring shall be integral part of the National environmental monitoring system. Local environmental monitoring shall include: (a) emissions to the atmospheric air by stationary sources; (b) effluent waste water discharge to surface waterbodies; (c) groundwater in areas of potential pollution; and (d) soil in areas of potential pollution.
Presidential Decree No. 622 “On improvement of regulation of land relations and state control over land management and protection”.
The President, with a view of improvement of regulation of land relations and carrying out state control over land management and protection, decrees to set up land survey services within local executive bodies entrusted with the following functions: (a) state control over land management and protection, execution and quality control of land survey and land cadastre work; (b) expropriation and allotment of the plots of land; (c) enforcement of land legislation; (d) submittal to tax inspection of data related to land ownership by natural and legal persons; and (e) exposure of abandoned land.
Order No. 1 of the State Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography validating the Regulation on land valuation.
This Order establishes the modalities of valuation of the plots of land owned by natural persons and subject to avowry. Land valuation shall be carried out by district and city executive bodies in the place of location of land plots. In case of dispute between landowner and land valuer as regards land value landowner shall have the right to turn to independent experts or appeal to court. Land plots shall be valued in accordance with normative price of land allotted in private ownership.