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Belarus Government 1998 https://greekorthodoxchurch.org/wfb1998/belarus/belarus_government.html SOURCE: 1998 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK Country name
Data code BO Government type republic National capital Minsk Administrative divisions
6 voblastsi (singular - voblasts') and one municipality* (harady, singular
- horad); Brestskaya (Brest), Homyel'skaya (Homyel'), Horad Minsk*, Hrodzyenskaya
(Hrodna), Mahilyowskaya (Mahilyow), Minskaya, Vitsyebskaya (Vitsyebsk)
Independence 25 August 1991 (from Soviet Union); the Belarusian Supreme Soviet issued a proclamation of independence; on 17 July 1990 Belarus issued a declaration of sovereignty National holiday Independence Day, 3 July (1990); note - date set by referendum of November 1996 Constitution referendum of 24 November 1996; became effective on 17 November 1996 Legal system based on civil law system Suffrage 18 years of age; universal Executive branch
Legislative branch
bicameral Parliament or Natsionalnoye Sobranie established by the 27
November Constitution consists of the Council of the Republic or Soviet Republiki
(64 seats; 8 appointed by the president and 56 indirectly elected by deputies
of local councils for four-year terms) and the Chamber of Representatives
or Palata Pretsaviteley (110 seats; note - present members came from the defunct
Supreme Soviet)
Judicial branch Supreme Court, judges are appointed by the president; Constitutional Court, half of the judges appointed by the president and half appointed by the Chamber of Representatives Political parties and leaders Belarusian Communist Party or KPB [Viktor CHIKIN]; Agrarian Party [Aleksandr PAVLOV, chairman]; Civic Accord Bloc (United Civic Party) or CAB [Stanislav BOGDANKEVICH, chairman]; Party of People's Concord [Leonid SECHKO, chairman]; Party of All-Belarusian Unity and Concord or UPNAZ [Dmitriy BULAKOV, chairman]; Belarusian Social-Democrat Hramada or SDBP [Nikolay STATKEVICH, chairman]; Belarusian Patriotic Movement (Belarusian Patriotic Party) or BPR [Anatoliy BARANKEVICH]; Green Party of Belarus or BPZ [Nikolay KARTASH, chairman]; Republican Party of Labor and Justice or RPPS [Anatol NETYLKIN, chairman]; Belarusian Popular Front or BNF [Levon BARSHEVSKIY, chairman]; Belarusian Social Sports Party or BSSP [Aleksandr ALEKSANDROVICH, chairman]; Ecological Party or BEP [Liudmila YELIZAROVA, chairman]; United Democratic Party of Belarus or ADPB [Aleksandr DOBROVOLSKIY]; Slavic Assembly or SAB [Andrey TSEGALKA]; Liberal-Democratic Party or LDPB [Sergei GAYDUKEVICH, chairman]; Belarusian Christian-Democratic Unity or BKDZ [Petr SILKO]; Polish Democratic Union or PDZ [Eduard AKHREM]; Party of Beer Lovers [Yuriy GONCHAR]; Party of Communists Belarusian or KPB [Sergei KALYAKIN and Vasiliy NOVIKOV, chairmen]; Belarusian Labor Party or BPP [Aleksandr BUKHVOSTOV] International organization participation BIS, CCC, CEI, CIS, EAPC, EBRD, ECE, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Inmarsat, Intelsat (nonsignatory user), Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, OSCE, PCA, PFP, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTrO (applicant) Diplomatic representation in the US
Diplomatic representation from the US
Flag description
red horizontal band (top) and green horizontal band one-half the width
of the red band; a white vertical stripe of white on the hoist side bears
in red the Belarusian national ornament
NOTE: The information regarding Belarus on this page is re-published from the 1998 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Belarus Government 1998 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Belarus Government 1998 should be addressed to the CIA. |