Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Belarus)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• 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 notes, a key number system to locate parts, and links to comparative information
• Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)

EXECUTIVE ARM

• President
• Council of Ministers
• Ministry of Justice
• National Bank

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• 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:
  • National Register of Legal Acts
  • Belarus Legislation Database
  • Legal Acts
  • Legal News
• NATLEX: Belarus (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Belarus (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• EECR: Belarus (East European Constitutional Review)
• FindLaw: Belarus
• ForIntLaw: Belarus (Washburn University Law Library)
• Guide to Legal Research in Belarus (Tatyana Khodosevich & Nadia Shalygina, via GlobaLex) April 2005
• World Directory of Parliamentary Libraries: Belarus (Germany Bundestag)
• World Law Index: Belarus (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Europe: Belarus (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Belarus () June 1995
• Portals to the World: Belarus ()
• Background Notes: 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)
• Governments on the WWW: Belarus (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Belarus (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual 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)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Belarus (Google); Belarus (Yahoo)