Talk:Politics of Belarus

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[edit] Old talk

The "Political parties" paragraph should be placed first, as many acronyms are referred to in the main part of the article. Simply stating the name of the acronym would not be sufficient, as giving the name of a party is not enough to explain who they are. It might be enough to only put the PCB and BPF parts in fromt and the rest at the end.

[edit] NPOV

I think Lukashenko is a very evil man, but surely it would be better if we didn't say that "the Lukashenko regime has launched a campaign against Polish ethnic minority" - as they, of course, assert that Poland and other countries are attempting to spy on them, and claim that their activities aren't against ethnic Poles, but only against the organisation which represents them. We need to put their side of the story to make the article more effective. XYaAsehShalomX 14:18, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

The above user is absolutely right. Particularly when it ought to be remembered that the 'Polish dispute' was not engineered by Lukashenko, but came from a complaint from the Belarusian Union of Poles to the Ministry of Justice that some of their own members had violated the organisation's constitution. I can explain further if neccesary, but urge that NPOV be followed.--Belaruski 19:58, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

The problem we have here is much of our article was a copy and paste from public domain resources owned by the United States Government and my government has been pretty harsh on President Lukashenko. I would like to clean this up but I just don't know how just quite yet. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 20:03, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Government of Belarus"

Surely this needs a separate article - ie, the structure of the government, how it's set up, etc? It's OK as a politics article, but when I linked from this article it just comes up with this. Someone who's more knowledgeable about it than me needs to make something seperate :) XYaAsehShalomX 14:18, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Presidential republic"

After recent events I'm not sure if this is entirely correct anymore. Maybe "presidential dictatorship" would be closer to the truth. Maybe after the "elections" the word "republic" in the article could be changed... Or? --HJV 22:20, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

While it is not a presidental republic by spirit or by Luka's actions, technically, Belarus is a "republic" that is headed by a president. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) Fair use policy 00:20, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 elections

Aren't we missing section on them? See Alexander_Lukashenko#2006_presidential_election as well as some stories: Wikinews, MYT, Times, Reuters, Guardian, ABC, just to name a few.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 23:23, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

We are going to add it soon. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 01:03, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Overall state of page

I removed a cleanup tag that had been hanging around since 2005, not motivated on talk. I admit I have not read the page in detail, but it does not look like a typical cleanup candidate to me; formats look fine. The sections are very long, maybe they can be condensed? // habj 16:36, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, i'll peer through it later. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 18:31, 28 February 2007 (UTC)