Events from the year 2007 in
Belarus
Incumbents
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President:
Alexander Lukashenko
*
Prime Minister:
Sergei Sidorsky
Sergei Sergeevich Sidorsky ( be, Сярге́й Сярге́евіч Сідо́рскі, tr. ''Syarhey Syarheyevich Sidorski'', ; russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Сидо́рский, tr. ''Sergey Sergeyevich Sidorskiy''; born Mar ...
Events
January
*January 8:
Russian oil supplies to
Poland,
Germany, and
Ukraine are cut as the Russia-
Belarus energy dispute escalates.
*January 13: The
energy dispute between
Russia and
Belarus is resolved after about 10 hours of negotiations between Russian Prime Minister
Mikhail Fradkov
Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov ( rus, Михаи́л Ефи́мович Фрадко́в, p=mʲɪxɐˈil jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ frɐtˈkof; born 1 September 1950) is a Russian politician who served as Prime Minister of Russia from 2004 to 2007. An In ...
and his Belarusian counterpart,
Sergey Sidorsky
Sergei Sergeevich Sidorsky ( be, Сярге́й Сярге́евіч Сідо́рскі, tr. ''Syarhey Syarheyevich Sidorski'', ; russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Сидо́рский, tr. ''Sergey Sergeyevich Sidorskiy''; born Mar ...
.
March
*March 25: Up to 10,000 people protest in
Minsk against
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
April
*April 25: U.S. Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs David Kramer, speaking on behalf of the
U.S. government
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, a city within a fede ...
, offers to normalize relations with
Belarus if it releases imprisoned politicians.
August
*August 1: Russia's gas exports monopoly
Gazprom
PJSC Gazprom ( rus, Газпром, , ɡɐzˈprom) is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg. As of 2019, with sales over $120 billion, it was ranked as the larges ...
will almost halve supplies to
Belarus from August 3 after failing to reach a deal with Minsk over a
$456 million energy debt.
Deaths
*February 23: Hanna Barysevich, 118?, claimed to be world's oldest person.
See also
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Years in Belarus
This is a list of years in Belarus. For only articles about years in Belarus that have been written, see :Years in Belarus.
Twenty-first century
Twentieth century
Nineteenth century
See also
* Timeline of Min ...
References
{{Year in Europe, 2007
Years of the 21st century in Belarus