“We need to agitate, so that “morons” will not come to power”, said Alyaksandar Lukashenka at the discussion of the ideology law draft. The Belarusians have been creating their ideology for half a year already. A lot of money has been donated – the Academy of Sciences got more than $2 million to work out country’s ideological program, writes “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.

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On Monday the official part of the PACE reporter of the political committee Christos Pourgourides’ visit began. He already visited Minsk at the beginning of November to investigate the missing peoples’ cases. Now he is preparing one more report on the prosecution of the mass media in Belarus.

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In the cooperation of Belarus with the EU “it is necessary to find instruments to balance our relations”, said Lukashenka on December 1 in his interview to the journalists of the German magazine “Spiegel”. Speaking about Belarus’ neighbors’ plans to join the EU, Lukashenka mentioned that “there are positive and negative outcomes”. “It depends on what kind of process that will be.”

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American Secretary of State Collin Powell blamed Belarus and Turkmenistan in violation of a number of basic OSCE regulations. He stated that at the 11th meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Maastricht, Netherlands.

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Belarus increased its domestic state debt 0.7% in October to 1.92 trillion Belarussian rubles, the finance ministry told Interfax.

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