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Is Belarus in the EU? Updated: 24 May 2021, 14:19 BELARUS has closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics, says the CIA. It has an authoritarian government headed by "Europe's last dictator", Alexander Lukashenko, who rules with an iron fist. 7 Is Belarus in the EU? Belarus is not in the European Union (EU). The bloc is a political and economic union, consisting of 27 member states. It operates an internal (or single) market which allows free movement of goods, capital, services and people between member states. The EU countries are: Austria, Bel...

Belarus leader to amend emergency power transfer to empower son Al Jazeera English © Lukashenko talks with the media during a Soviet-style clean-up day [File: Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Ph... Lukashenko talks with the media during a Soviet-style clean-up day [File: Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP] Belarus’s longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko has said he will change the law on presidential succession so that the national security council, where his son plays a prominent role, assumes power in the event of a president’s death while in office. “Tell me, if there is n...

Lukashenko comments on NOC situation, Belarus' participation in Olympics Aleksandr Lukashenko MINSK, 15 March (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko commented on the situation around the National Olympic Committee (NOC) and the participation of Belarusian athletes in the upcoming Olympics in Tokyo as he spoke to the media after the Minsk Ski Track relay in Raubichi on 13 March, BelTA has learned. The head of state advised “not to worry” and emphasized the politicization of the issues. One of the journalists noted that the IOC would not recognize Viktor Lukashenko as the head o...

Sunday, 14 March 2021 Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) decision to refuse to recognition his son’s election as National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus (NOCRB) President is "political", and that the country will seek to "hold out" for its independence. Viktor Lukashenko replaced his father Alexander, the Belarus President, as head of the body during the NOCRB General Assembly last month. Both men were banned from attending the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games by the IOC in December after allegations of political discriminat...

(ATR) The IOC refuses to accept the election of the new president of the Belarus Olympic Committee.