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 41 - 45 of 70Order 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.
Ministerial Decree No. 2012 regarding official land act and certificate of provisional land tenancy.
This Ministerial Decree establishes that official land act and certificate of provisional land tenancy shall be issued by rural self-government for land plots of agricultural land and by urban administration for land plots of urban land. Legalization and registration of official land acts and certificates of provisional land tenancy shall be carried out by land use planning organizations subordinated to rural self-government and urban administration respectively.
Decree No. 13 of the State Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography validating the Regulation on the establishment of administrative and territorial units.
This Decree establishes the modalities of delimitation of administrative and territorial boundaries, including mapping, calculation of the perimeter of boundaries, calculation of area of administrative and territorial units, and legalization of the boundaries. In the process of mapping the following boundaries shall be established: (a) administrative and territorial units (urban and rural areas); and (b) areas with special land tenure (protected areas, national parks, biosphere reserves, territories of cultural heritage).
Ministerial Decree No. 1591 regarding the competence of the State Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography.
This Ministerial Decree establishes that the State Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography shall be the authorized state institution carrying out state regulation in the sphere of land relations, protection and rational management of land, geodetic and cartographic activity, state registration of immovable property, transactions therewith and common state policy in the aforesaid sphere.
Decree No. 8 of the State Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography validating the Regulation on construction activity by land tenants, landowners and lessees.
This Decree establishes that construction of the objects that are not corresponding to the purposeful use of land and terms and conditions of land allotment, and also without documentation attesting the right to land plot shall be prohibited.