Dec-Jan 2017

In Minsk, on Independence Avenue near the National Library, the monument to St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk (1101-1167) attracts the attention of tourists and visitors. She was the first woman to be…

 “What did that coat cost you?” one Belarusian woman asks her friend. “Approximately 30 tantrums.” “Yep, it was a little expensive!” ***  “No matter how hard you work,”…

Belarus cannot objectively be described as a country of private entrepreneurs; in 2015, the economic contribution of small businesses in Belarus amounted to 24 % of GDP…

The search for peaceful options to settle the situation in the Donbass region in Eastern Ukraine continues to be one of the main focuses of the Ukrainian…

Trump woke America! A second away from death, the great country was awoken. Some time ago, the famous senator Jesse Helms said while teaching us youngsters some…

According to a popular point of view, geopolitics is either an explanatory master key used by hidebound and reactionary conservatives or an archaic 19th-century discipline that has…

Belarus has risen two places up to 31st place out of 175 countries in the ITU’s annual Measuring the Information Society Report. According to the report, the world is…

Dear readers of the US-Belarus Observer, The New Year 2017 has arrived! How quickly 2016 flew by; it has already been relegated to history. The champagne spilled on my jacket…

Astatement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus on December 28, 1991, Belarusian and American politicians, through an exchange of notes, agreed toestablish diplomatic relations with…