Quotes About Belarus

I am sure that it is the Belarus people who are the masters in our state.

We will ensure the interests of both the East and the West in Belarus. Don't try to rip us apart; don't try to make us collide with Russia or with the West.

There is no scope for revolutions coming to Belarus.

Political leaders in Belarus are routinely repressed, and their voices are muffled: Tsikhanouskaya was running for president because her husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, was arrested before he could start his own presidential campaign.

I have only you, the people of Belarus, and I will serve to the last of my days.

Belarus is not a superpower, but we pay a lot of attention to sports.

The color revolution virus affects only weak countries. Belarus does not have any breeding ground for this.

Belarus is not the Middle East. The policies of Belarussian and Middle Eastern leaders are cardinally different from one another.

What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

Puszcza, an old Polish word, means "forest primeval." Straddling the border between Poland and Belarus, the half-million acres of the Bia?owie?a Puszcza contain Europe's last remaining fragment of old-growth, lowland wilderness.

Ukraine might be an economic joke, a place to make cracks about, but it is also a vital buffer-state. With Ukraine independent, the Russian border stays 600 miles to the east and Poland can convincingly call itself part of Central, not Eastern, Europe. Were Ukraine – or more likely Belarus – to lose its independence, Russia would be back glowering over the frontier wire, and Europe's centre of gravity would shift away westwards.

We have two options - to continue living in poverty and empty promises or build a Belarus that we deserve.

Belarus will become the first government in the world that opens wide opportunities for the use of blockchain technology.

We are ready and open to a dialogue with all sides, all parties and all countries that respect the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Belarus.

No matter who comes to Belarusian land, I will fight. Even if it is Putin.

Who is against human rights in Belarus today? Of course, no one should view human rights as the right to smash shop windows or stir up unrest in the streets.

The history of Germany is a mold for the history of Belarus.

You know that in the Eurasian space, Russia is the central state, the most powerful state. But to become an empire, a member of some empire, a province in this empire - you know, we're probably not ready for that yet, neither in Kazakhstan nor in Belarus.

I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting at the front or with the partisans. After the war, we children lived in a world of women. What I remember most is that women talked about love, not death.

Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic.

We are fighting for free, fair and transparent elections, which means that every citizen of Belarus will be able to participate in those elections.

Belarus cannot be isolated.

In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.'