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.
Source: CIA World Factbook
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Displaying 36 - 40 of 70Decree No. 7 of the Chief Sanitary Inspector validating hygienic requirements for the contents of phenanthrene, Tilt Fungicide and cadmium in soil.
This Decree establishes hygienic requirements for the contents of phenanthrene, Tilt Fungicide and cadmium in soil calculated in mg/kg of soil. It establishes maximum allowable concentration and approximate allowable concentration. It also establishes limiting factors such as phytotoxicity.
Implements: Law No. 1982-XII of 1992 on protection of the environment. (1992-11-26)
Implements: Law on sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population. (2000-05-23)
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.
Joint Order No. 73 of the State Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography and No. 453 of the Ministry of Architecture and Construction validating the Regulation on cadastre valuation of urban land.
This Joint Order establishes that land plots allotted to citizens in private ownership for subsidiary small-holding, housing constriction and collective farming in urban areas, urban-type settlements, rural areas and garden suburbs shall be subject to land valuation in accordance with normative price of land. Normative prices can differ by reduction of 50 percent for land plots allotted for subsidiary small-holding and by increase or reduction of 50 percent for land plots allotted for other purposeful uses as above-mentioned. The Joint Order contains calculation formula and indices.