Belarus: Lukashenko's re-election after exchanges Premier

After the fraud allegations overshadowed by presidential elections in Belarus's authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko has appointed a new government. Lukashenko said just over a week after his controversial re-election the former head of its administration, Mikhail Myasnikovich, the new prime minister.

Photo: AP / Mikhail Myasnikovich DPA is the new Prime Minister of Belarus The 60-year-old Myasnikovich, who until Tuesday was president of the National Academy of Sciences, will replace the current Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky. Lukashenko had the vote in the ex-Soviet republic on 19 December after the official presentation with just under 80 percent won hands down.

With the raids was the state power also over a week after the voting continued against the opposition. In the capital, Minsk searched masked members of the police and the Secret Service on Tuesday, the rooms of the anti-government newspaper "Nasha Niva" and the Writers' Union. The green member of parliament Beck asked during a visit to Minsk is a proper response of the European Union on the repression in Belarus since the elections.

These releases EU travel bans on Lukashenko and 35 other officials should be reinstated, she said at a news conference. Ad

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