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 66 - 70 of 70Law No. 128-Z amending Law on payments for land.
Article 16 shall acquire a new wording: “Article 16. Amount of rent. Payment for land allotted on lease shall be collected in accordance with lease contract. Basic annual rates of public land shall be set by local self-government with the consideration of cadastre valuation of the plots of land and with the application of factors established by the President of Belarus subject to the purposeful use of land.
Law No. 182-Z amending Law on payments for land.
Article 3 shall be supplemented with a new wording: “land taxes for agricultural land shall be established in accordance with 2 reduced by factors specified in the Annex 5.” Part one on the Article 20 shall acquire a new wording: “The grounds for the calculation of land taxes shall be the state land deed, land certificate of provisional land tenancy, decision of the local self-government on the allotment of a plot of land or annual declaration submitted by the local land survey service to the taxation authority specifying allotment and quality of the allotted land.”
Decree No. 16 of the Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography validating the Regulation on land valuation.
This Decree establishes the structure, contents and the modalities of keeping the register of land value of the plots of land recorded in the state land cadastre. Register of land value shall make part of the state land cadastre and contains data on land value calculated in the process of land valuation or re-valuation. Database of the register of land value shall contain the following information: (a) basic land value at the date of cadastre valuation; (b) valuation zones; (c) cadastre value; and (d) value of some plots of land after valuation thereof.
Decree No. 14 of the Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography on the awarding of cadastre numbers to the plots of land.
The Decree establishes that cadastre number of a plot of land shall be composed of 18 figures of which the first 10 figures shall correspond to the administrative and territorial unit on the territory of which the plot of lands is located and the registration date, the 11th and the 12th figures correspond to the number of cadastral block, and the figures 13 to 18 indicate the number of the plot of land within cadastre block.
Ministerial Decree No. 1153 on the protection of geodetic points.
The geodetic points pertain to the national property and are protected by the state. The plots of land on which the geodetic points are situated and one-meter wide strip of land along the boundaries thereof are fenced-off areas. Land pertaining to fenced-off areas of the geodetic point cannot be expropriated. The aforesaid land can be used for limited agricultural activities by special authorization.
Implements: Law No. 254-Z on land surveying and cartographic activity. (1999-05-10)