<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Belarus</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/europe/easterneurope/belarus?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><description>Belarus</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Rice Encourages Belarus Opposition]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6481-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6481-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ VILNIUS, Lithuania, April 21  --  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a boost Thursday to stalled efforts to oust the government of Belarus, holding a high-profile meeting with key opposition figures from the former Soviet republic. Russian and Belarusan officials criticized her actions and statements as interference.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7924-2004Oct28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7924-2004Oct28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Palestinian Girl, 8, Killed By Israeli Troops in Gaza <br>   GAZA CITY --  Israeli troops on Thursday shot and killed an 8-year-old Palestinian girl who was on her way to school in a Gaza Strip refugee camp, while Palestinian militants fired mortars at a Jewish settlement, injuring nine people, witnesses and officials said.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43791-2004Oct19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43791-2004Oct19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Belarusan Leader Claims Victory In Disputed Vote on Term Limits <br>    MINSK, Belarus --  President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday he had won a mandate from voters to stay in power in a weekend referendum scrapping presidential term limits, but foreign observers said the vote process was marred by violations, and thousands of people protested the outcome.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belarus Says Vote Allows President to Run Again]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40500-2004Oct17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40500-2004Oct17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Belarusans voted in favor of scrapping presidential term limits, the Central Elections Commission chief said Monday, citing partial results. Ending the limits would allow the country's authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, to seek a new term in 2006.]]></description><author> Mara D. Bella</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[School of 'Partisans' Goes Underground in Belarus]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38755-2004Oct16.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38755-2004Oct16.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MINSK, Belarus -- At 9 in the morning, Maxim Rust and Yevgeny Volk, two 16-year-olds, knocked quietly on the door of an apartment in a nondescript building and quickly slipped inside.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubts Hound Vote in Belarus]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33614-2004Oct14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33614-2004Oct14.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Voters in Belarus, a country of 10 million sandwiched between the European Union and Russia, are also being asked Sunday to vote in a referendum that could extend indefinitely the 10-year rule of President Alexander Lukashenko.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WASHINGTON IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46725-2004Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46725-2004Apr2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  DOE Drops Fight to Ease Energy Efficiency Standard <br> The government agreed yesterday to require new central air conditioners and heat pumps to be 30 percent more efficient beginning in 2006.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18104-2003Oct12.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18104-2003Oct12.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fire Kills 30 Patients At Hospital in Belarus <br>   MINSK, Belarus --  A fire believed to have been set by a psychiatric patient engulfed a Belarusan mental hospital Sunday, killing 30 patients and reducing much of the century-old wooden building to ash.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mikhnevich Golden]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37358-2003Aug23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37358-2003Aug23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Shot putter Andrei Mikhnevich edged American Adam Nelson for the gold, achieving a personal best of 71 feet 2 inches at the ninth World Track and Field Championships.]]></description><author> Amy Shipley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turks, Arabs Lead a Drive For Hussein To Step Down]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8650-2003Jan17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8650-2003Jan17.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[KUWAIT CITY, Jan. 17 -- Turkey's new government and several Arab leaders are trying to stave off war in Iraq by persuading President Saddam Hussein to step down and threatening to encourage a coup d'etat if he stands firm, according to an Arab official familiar with the discussions.]]></description><author> Peter Baker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Sets Record for Action on Ex-Nazis]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41809-2002Dec26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41809-2002Dec26.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Justice Department set a single-year record by seeking to revoke the citizenship of or deport 10 former Nazis in 2002. Investigators took advantage of recently opened archives in former communist countries and better computer databases to find suspects in the United States.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence Predicts Hussein's Reaction to Attack]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37825-2002Dec25.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37825-2002Dec25.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Because Hussein lives in a secluded and closely guarded environment, these analyses are highly speculative, senior administration officials said.]]></description><author> Walter Pincus</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russia's Collective History]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53012-2002Dec13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53012-2002Dec13.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a small but significant ceremony in Moscow yesterday, the United States  returned to Russia 28 linear feet of archival files that gave the free world its first fully documented look at the horrors of collectivization, forced famine and mass murder in the earliest decades of the Soviet Union.]]></description><author> Ken Ringle</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[E. Europe Armaments Find Way To Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12793-2002Nov19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12793-2002Nov19.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[SARAJEVO, Bosnia -- Antiaircraft missile training from Belarus. Radar units from Ukraine. Armored vehicles and tank engines from Bulgaria. Ammunition, explosives, rockets and lessons in missile technology from Serbia. And spare jet parts, missile technology and rocket propellants from Bosnia.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams  and Nicholas Wood</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belarusan Barred From Summit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61090-2002Nov15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61090-2002Nov15.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Czech Republic Friday refused to issue a visa for Belarus's authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, disrupting his plans to crash next week's NATO summit in the Czech capital even as his government threatened to retaliate by breaking diplomatic relations.]]></description><author> Susan B. Glasser</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belarus to Impose Strict Curbs on Religion]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35247-2002Oct2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35247-2002Oct2.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Belarus moved toward imposing harsh new restrictions on religious activity by minority faiths, adopting what human rights activists called the most suffocating religion law in Europe.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belarus Chief Responds to Critics With Crackdown]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33763-2002Aug18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33763-2002Aug18.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Lukashenko has embarked on a new crackdown against democracy activists, with his agents systematically arresting people even remotely connected with the opposition in last year's presidential campaign.]]></description><author> Susan B. Glasser</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bank Approves Loan to Belarus For Chernobyl]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42629-2002May31.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42629-2002May31.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[MINSK, Belarus, May 31 -- The World Bank said today that it will lend $50 million to the former Soviet republic of Belarus to support people living on land contaminated by fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disarmament Agency Director Is Ousted]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31533-2002Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31533-2002Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS, April 22 -- The Bush administration today forced the ouster of the chief of the world's leading chemical weapons disarmament agency, alleging a history of gross mismanagement, petty tantrums and autocratic leadership that was threatening to undermine the organization's credibility.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Lands in Semifinals]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42319-2002Feb20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42319-2002Feb20.html?nav=rss_world/europe/easterneurope/belarus</guid><pubDate>Fri, 6 May 2005 17:02:53 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The United States was off to a slow start before Jeremy Roenick jump- started the U.S. men's hockey team to a 5-0 victory over Germany and a semifinal rematch with Russia.]]></description><author> Jason La Canfora</author></item></channel></rss>