Belarus
Republic of Belarus / Respublika Belarus
(formerly: Belorussian (Byelorussian) Soviet Socialist Republic)
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- Constitution (Belarus President) in Russian
- International Constitutional Law: Belarus Index (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the current constitution, the enactment law, and declaration of sovereignty; plus Background Note, a key number system to locate parts, and links to comparative information
- Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)
Executive
Judicial
- Ministry of Justice: Supreme Court; Constitutional Court, Supreme Economic Court
Legislative
- OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta
- PARLIAMENT: Natsionalnoye Sobranie [National Assembly] consisting of the Soviet Respubliki [Council of the Republic] and the Palata Pretsaviteley [Chamber of Representatives]
- National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus - includes:
- NATLEX: Belarus (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Information Catalog: Belarus (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Global Legal Monitor: Belarus (Law Library of Congress)
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- EECR: Belarus (East European Constitutional Review)
- FindLaw: Belarus
- ForIntLaw: Belarus (Washburn University Law Library)
- Update: Guide to Legal Research in Belarus (Nadia Shalygina; GlobaLex)
- World Legal Information Institute: Belarus (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Europe: Belarus (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Country Study: Belarus (Library of Congress) June 1995
- Background Note: Belarus (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Belarus (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Belarus (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Belarus (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Belarus (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Human Rights in Belarus (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Reports: Belarus (U.S. Dept. of State)
- National Library of Belarus
- NEWS: BBC World Europe
- Permanent Mission of Belarus to the UN, New York (United Nations)
- U.S. Embassy, Minsk (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: Belarus (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Yahoo: Belarus
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Last Updated: 01/29/2012
