Belarusian dictatorship has recieved last tranche of IMF loan

The last tranche of the International Monetary Fund's loan, $670 million in the framework of stand-by program, has been recieved by Belarus.

"Interfax" has been informed about that by the information department of the National Bank of Belarus (NBB).

Like previous loans of the IMF, this tranche has been credited to gold and currency reserves, which were equal to $5577.2 mln as of March 1, 2010 (1.3% less then in the beginning of the year).

As it was informed, the board of executive dicrectors of the IMF completed the fourth and final review of Belarus' performance under an economic

Terms of oil supplies to Belarus based on Kremlin’s scenario

Moscow is going to follow the acting arrangements regarding supplies of Russia oil to Belarus.

It was announced in Moscow on March 30 by Aleksey Likhachev, the director of the foreign trade analysis and regulation department of the Economic Development Ministry, REGNUM informs.

According to Likhachev, Russia considers the oil to be serious budget goods. "It's needles to speak about a share of oil duties in the Russian budget. We provide for oil use by the Belarusian state," Likhachev noted.

"We agreed that 6.3 million tonnes of Russian oil are supplied to Belarus on a duty-free basis. We came to

Russian experts: Belarus on verge of collapse

Minsk in a stalemate: duties for Russian oil can cause very great losses.

Such an opinion was expressed on March 26 by a Russian political analyst Anna Kurennova to a IA Regnum reporter.

We remind that on March 25 Belarus sued Russia in the Economic Court of the CIS. According to official Minsk, customs duties on the oil products and crude oil Russia supplies to Belarus are illegal, as the both sides are members of the Custons Union.

"That happens not because Belarus is bad-tempered, but because it has no other choice. The budget of the country was greatly

Belarus celebrates Freedom Day

March 25 is the 92th anniversary of declaration of the Belarusian People's Republic.

The official authorities of Belarus do not recognize this date, but the democratic community celebrates it every year as Freedom Day.

Festive events dedicated to this holiday are to take place in Belarus and abroad today.

A march and a meeting are planed in Minsk today. Participants of the action will gather at 6 p.m. near the building of the National Academy of Sciences. The rally is authorized by Minsk city executive committee.

This year the organiser of the rally is the Belarusian Popular Front Party. The application for the rally had been filed by the

Lyabedzka fined for solidarity with Union of Poles

The leader of the United Civil party fined 30 basic units.

On March 25 the court of Valozhyn districy considered a case against the leader of the United Civil Party Anatol Lyabedzka, who was detained in Valozhyn on February 15 near the building of a military base where the trial over Tereza Sobal was held, BelaPAN informs.

The politician was charged under two articles of the Administrative Code, petty hooliganism and insubordination to police. The first lawsuit was dismissed, and Lyabedzka was found guilty in the second case and fined 30 basic units.

It should be noted that on the

Mahilou militia refuses to return passports to German volunteers

The German volunteers who were detained in Mahilou on March 24 cannot receive their passports back.

On March 26, German volunteers Solwei Schoris and Susana Paul came to the Leninski district militia department in Mahilou to take their passports back. According to Euroradio, Mikhail Luhautsou, an officer in charge of immigration, simply told them to get out.

The German volunteers, who were detained on March 24, were accused of staying at the address that is different from their registration. The militia asked neighbors if they heard the German language. It turned out that the neighbors did not see the Germans.

Union members to go to law over oil

Belarus has filed a lwasuit to the Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) against Russia over oil products custom duties.

As AFN news agency reports, this is said in the statement of the Belarusian Ministry of Justice.

"The Ministry Justice of Belarus filed a lawsuit to the CIS Economic Court, acting as a EurAsEC court, over the issue regarding imposing customs duties on oil products and raw oil supplied to Belarus from Russia," the statement says.

As the Ministry of Justice reports, on the ground of a teletype message of the Russian Federal Customs Service, petroleum refinery

German volunteers arrested in Mahilou

Volunteers from Germany were detained in the pedagogical institute and accused of unlawful activity that can lead to deportation.

According to local human rights activists, German volunteers Solwei Schoris and Susana Paul, invited to a meeting with students, were detained in the pedagogical institute in Mahilou.

As informed by the press service of Viasna human rights center, militiamen guarded the German volunteers to the Leninski district militia department on an accusation of illegal activity. The volunteers came to Belarus about five months ago on an invitation of Blue Shores Foundation, an NGO dealing with physically challenged children with artistic skills.