Despite glaring contempt for world opinion, the Belarusian dictator is not completely independent of it.
Chavez perceives the alliance to be strategic because of the Belarusian over-capacity of military production.
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Another dictator, the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, has come to the rescue and paid the Belarusian debt to Gazprom.
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Currently, the Belarusian economy is characterized by an over-concentration on high-tech military production.
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Belarusian Potash Corp. has a monopoly on Russian and Belarusian potash and controls over a third of global exports.
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The Belarusian government expects to earn enough profits so that they will eventually be able to develop their own refineries.
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Nadia, meantime, was singing weird Belarusian pop beneath her breath as she got up on the footstool to polish the optics.
Typical Belarusian New Year celebrations take place according to the 'old' Julian style calendar and are combined with distinctive local performing arts.
The Belarusian won 6-3, 6-4 for a 14th career title, following on from her success in Beijing where she beat Maria Sharapova.
The American will play Victoria Azarenka in the final after the Belarusian overcame Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska in straight sets in the second semi-final.
The Yak-42 plane was carrying the team to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, for the start of the new Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) season.
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For example, suppose someone in Belarus buys something from Amazon, which is not a Belarusian company and thus is not registered in Belarus.
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Well, the Belarusian tech site Onliner.by made waves yesterday by publishing the clearest photos yet of the alleged LG Nexus, the E960.
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In addition, Chavez plans to give the Belarusian state oil firm concessions to exploit oil fields and sell the petroleum to the United States.
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It also provides humanitarian aid and supports children with cancer, while its volunteers also work on an annual holiday camp for Belarusian children with special needs.
Cavendish, who was pipped by Belarusian Yauheni Hutarovich on Monday, took to the front early in the sprint to end the 198.8km fifth stage into Lorca.
Last year the Belarusian president refused to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the two breakaway Georgian territories over which Russia had warred with Georgia.
The transaction is illegal, and so the Belarusian Attorney General would send a note to Amazon informing it that it is violating national law and might be sued.
Alexei, the conspicuously walleyed Belarusian, had gone to survey the scene from an upstairs window and he returned to report that the car park beside the hotel was flooded completely.
Mr Lukashenka would not sell Belarusian refineries to Russian firms, he refused to recognise the independence of the breakaway Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and he sheltered Mr Bakiyev.
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For their part, America and the European Union have banned assorted Belarusian officials from entering their countries, and are trying to freeze their foreign assets (though not much loot seems to have turned up).
Russia is also stirring up the Belarusian opposition.
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It was the first time that the Belarusian and the world No.4 from Poland have met on clay but like the previous four occasions the pair have met this year Azarenka came out on top.
The 23-year-old Belarusian said she was later compelled to explain that she misunderstood the question in the on-court interview, and she wanted to dispel the perception that her medical timeout amounted to little more than gamesmanship.
Mikalai Dziadok was studying by night and working in a Minsk law firm until the Belarusian authorities accused him of organising a demonstration outside the Ministry of Defence and of causing a disturbance outside a Minsk casino.
Serena powered to a 6-4 6-2 win over Australian Sam Stosur to book a meeting with Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, who recovered from a set down to beat Russia's Vera Zvonareva 4-6 6-4 6-0 in two hours and 28 minutes.
To add to a successful night for Belarusian cycling, Tatsiana Sharakova (30 points) won the women's points race, another non-Olympic event, while Jarmila Machacova of Czech Republic (20 points) took silver and Giorgia Bronzini of Italy (14 points) collected bronze.
Although Moscow and Minsk eventually reached an agreement, alleged violations led Gazprom to announce a cut in the supply of gas to Belarus due to a debt of over 450 million dollars, leading to a new crisis that could strangle the Belarusian economy.
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The Russian-Belarusian nuclear power plant project, estimated to have a capacity of 2.4 gigawatts (GW) and set to be commissioned in 2018, has been a controversial topic given that the project was signed between Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the midst of the Japanese nuclear disaster.
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