Belarus is located in Eastern Europe. Image credit: Wikipedia
If you’re Belarussian and live in Belarus, don’t read this because you could get in trouble with the KGB (that’s what they still call the secret police).
Internet restrictions passed by the Belarussian government will go into effect on January 6, 2012. This already passed. This means that it is a misdemeanor to visit a website that is not hosted in Belarus. My website is hosted on a server somewhere in the middle of the desert in Arizona by a company called Godaddy (warning: they have extremely misleading advertisements, I advise you to STAY AWAY from them). Fines can be up to US$125, depending on the website the individual went to and what activities he/she did on it.
Belarus has been criticized for a deteriorating human rights situation and it is the last dictatorship in Europe. President Obama signed the Belarus Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2011 (what a eupemistic name), which imposes new sanctions on Belarus, and denies some Belarussian officials visas. The law labels President Alexander Lukashenko a dictator (which he technically is) and states that he “established himself in power by orchestrating an illegal and unconstitutional referendum that enabled him to impose a new constitution, abolishing the duly elected parliament.”