Official documents

Lukashenko signs decree regulating gambling business
The decree, in particular, introduces additional requirements to the gambler identification process. The registration of gamblers on gambling websites can be done either during a personal visit to a gambling venue or via an online video session...

Lukashenko approves changes to supervisory activities in Belarus
The new decree prescribes norms aimed at reducing red tape and increasing the digitalization of processes...

Lukashenko signs decree on employer responsibilities when hiring foreign workers
In order to strengthen regulations on hiring foreign workers, excluding citizens of Eurasian Economic Union member states, employers are assigned additional duties...

Lukashenko signs directive on implementing key principles of ideology of Belarusian state
The document is aimed at increasing the efficiency of ideological work and updating the regulatory framework governing this field...

Lukashenko signs directive to improve governance, strengthen discipline
The directive contains norms on the need to streamline the process of information collection and reduce abundant requests to legal entities, as well as to ensure information security...

Lukashenko signs law on amendments to Codes on Criminal Liability
In accordance with the document, the punishment for 97 categories of offenses has been revised. Of these, 65 categories of offenses have been supplemented with alternative punishment, more lenient types of punishment (24 categories of offenses carried an imprisonment sentence as the only possible punishment until now). Adjustments in part of types of punishment were made to 32 other categories of offenses...

Lukashenko approves state investment program for 2025
A total of Br2.207 billion has been earmarked to finance the objects included in the program this year. More than 80% of them will be spent on the state programs Roads of Belarus, People's Health and Demographic Security, Education and Youth Policy, Housing Construction, Agrarian Business, Border Security and others...

Lukashenko approves lawmaking plan for 2025
The plan is based on the real need of the society to address the relevant relations and the order of priority of their regulation by law. Special attention was paid to the systemic, comprehensive and stable legal regulation...

Belarus’ National Security Concept, Military Doctrine published
The National Security Concept and Military Doctrine are fundamental documents regulating the state’s approaches to ensuring its own security in various areas, taking into account geopolitical changes in the world, and the use of military force in response to existing challenges and threats...

Lukashenko: New Constitution will enter into force on 15 March
According to the head of state, a new page has been added to the history of sovereign Belarus. A nationwide referendum took place on 27 February 2022. An absolute majority of citizens supported the proposed constitutional amendments...