Belarus
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- nominally a republic, in fact a dictatorship
- CONSTITUTION
- March 15, 1994; amended 1996, 2004
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on civil law; not subject to the jurisdiction of the ICJ
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, National Assembly (Natsionalnoye Sobranie) composed of the Council of the Republic (Soviet Respubliki) and the House of Representatives (Palata Predstaviteley)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court (composed of the president and vice president and organized into various specialized chambers, including economic and military; number of judges determined by the president of the republic and the president of the court); Constitutional Court (composed of 12 judges, including a president and a vice president); oblast courts; City Court of Minsk; city courts; Economic Courts of the city and oblast of Minsk
RELIGIONS
Orthodox 48.3%, Catholics 7.1%, others 3.5%, non-believers 41.1% (estimate 2011)
From the country
- JANUARY 1, 2011BelarusDEATH PENALTY
Article 24 of the constitution reads that
Article 24 of the constitution reads that "the death penalty...
DECEMBER 6, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTYBELARUS: LUKASHENKO URGES TO REVISIT DEATH PENALTY ISSUE
The issue of capital punishment in Belarus should be revisited, said President Alexander
SEPTEMBER 17, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTYBELARUS UPHOLDS DEATH PENALTY FOR TWO MEN: COURT
the Belarussian supreme court upheld death sentences handed to two men found guilty
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTYBELARUS: GANG MEMBERS SENTENCED FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERIES, KILLINGS
One criminal gang member was sentenced to death and another to life imprisonment
- MAY 28, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
TWO BELARUSIAN CITIZENS CONVICTED OF TRIPLE MURDER APPEAL DEATH SENTENCE
two unidentified men appealed their death sentences by firing squad for a triple murder to Belarus's Supreme Court, a local court official said.
- MAY 14, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS: 2 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
at a court in Grodno, Belarus, judge Pyotr Bandyk sentenced Aleg Gryshkautsou (29) and Andrei Burdyka (28), to death for the October murder of two women and a man during an armed robbery.
MARCH 24, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTYHOC: VASILY YZEPCHUK’S EXECUTION IN BELARUS SHOWS ITALIAN GOVERNMENT IS INCONSISTENT IN PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS
Hands Off Cain secretary Sergio D’Elia and Elisabetta Zamparutti, Radical parliamentarian
- MARCH 23, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUSIAN ACTIVISTS DETAINED FOR PROTESTING DEATH PENALTY
four Belarusian activists protesting recent executions were detained near President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's office in Minsk, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.
MARCH 23, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTYCOUNCIL OF EUROPE DENOUNCES EXECUTIONS IN BELARUS
the Council of Europe denounced the execution of two death row inmates in Belarus.
- MARCH 22, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
BELARUS CARRIES OUT TWO EXECUTIONS
two men were executed in Belarus at the end of last week, Amnesty International reported.
FEBRUARY 22, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTYBELARUS ON ITS OWN WAY TOWARDS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BAN
Belarus will seek its own way to ban capital punishment, Nikolai Samoseiko, Chairman
- JANUARY 1, 2010BelarusDEATH PENALTY
Article 24 of the constitution reads that
Article 24 of the constitution reads that "the death penalty...