Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:40:02 +0100 (Reuters) - A Belarussian worker, representing the charity organization "Ecodom", carries a sheaf of reeds in village of Stakhovtsy, some 150 km (93 miles) north of Minsk, February 10, 2012. The reeds are used for the construction of buildings, including houses for migrants from the Chernobyl zone. Members of the Belarussian charity organization "Ecodom" and its German partner "Heim-statt Tschernobyl e.V." (Houses instead of Chernobyl) have built houses since 1994 for Belarusian migrants from Chernobyl, the place where the world's worst civil nuclear accident took place. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER ENERGY SOCIETY BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION)
Belarussian police officers Aleksandr Akulich (L) and Sergey ...
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:10:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Belarussian police officers Aleksandr Akulich (L) and Sergey Klavsuts visit a pensioner Mikhail Zagorovski, 77, to assist him and provide food, in the village of Rogovo, some 30 km (19 miles) north of Minsk, February 3, 2012. Unusually cold weather of minus 24 degree Celsius (-13 Fahrenheit) hit the Belarussian capital on Friday, according local media. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS - Tags: ENVIRONMENT MILITARY SOCIETY)
Aleksandr Akulich, a Belarussian militiaman, carries firewood ...
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:40:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Aleksandr Akulich, a Belarussian militiaman, carries firewood for pensioner Raisa Pochekovskaya, 73, as he visits elderly and single residents of the village of Kolodishchi to assist them and provide with food, on the outskirts of Minsk, February 2, 2012. Record-low temperatures in parts of Eastern Europe pushed the death toll from Arctic conditions to at least 89 people on Wednesday, and have forced Russian gas provider Gazprom to warn over supplies to Europe. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS - Tags: MILITARY SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)
Lyubov Kovalyova, a Belarussian receptionist poses at the European ...
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:30:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Lyubov Kovalyova, a Belarussian receptionist poses at the European Parliament in Brussels after a meeting with MEPs January 24, 2012. Kovalyova was listening to the radio at work in April when she heard that her son had confessed to helping plan a terrorist attack - a bomb in a metro station in the capital Minsk which killed 15 people. Eight months later, after a two-month trial, her son - who says he is innocent - and a childhood friend were condemned to death, a sentence delivered in Belarus by a pistol shot at an unannounced time. In a race to gain a reprieve, Kovalyova is taking her case to European institutions, and is also campaigning to abolish the death penalty in her country, the only one in Europe still to practise it. REUTERS/Yves Herman (BELGIUM - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)
Belarussians celebrate the pagan rite called "Kolyadki" ...
Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:50:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Belarussians celebrate the pagan rite called "Kolyadki" in the village of Lobcha, about 230 km (143 miles) south of Minsk January 7, 2012. Kolyada is a pagan winter holiday, which over the centuries has merged with Orthodox Christmas celebrations in Ukraine and some parts of Belarus. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (BELARUS - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION)
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